Introduction
Strontium carbonate.
Preparation: Triturations.
Mind.
Very violent and quarrelsome for a long time. Apprehensive and anxious, as from a bad conscience (thirteenth and fourteenth days). She is very ill-humored and quarrelsome. Fretful, thoughtful, and not inclined to talk (fifth day). Very fretful; is inclined to beat everything that comes in his way. Great forgetfulness (first day).
Head.
Vertigo. Vertigo and nausea, in the morning. Vertigo, at noon, with pressive headache in the left side. Excessive vertigo, at noon. Vertigo, in the afternoon, with sticking headache in the forehead. Vertigo with weariness, in the evening. Vertigo, with a pressing sensation from within outward in the temples.
Dizziness in the head, as from drinking wine (after one hour).
General Head. The head covering causes dulness of the head (first day). Heaviness of the head, with discomfort of the whole body (first day). Tensive pain in the head as if the whole skin on the vertex were drawn up (first day). Headache at first tensive, the pressive drawing extending about the head, in the evening (after twenty-five days). Headache as if the whole head were made tense, from within outward, when lying in bed, especially when lying with the head low, several evenings in succession (after twenty-six days). Tensive pain in the head extending from the vertex into the upper jaw, in the evening (after twenty-eight days). Spasmodic drawing from the head through the eyeball, frequently recurring (after four hours). A sudden painful jerking from time to time, here and there, in the head (eighth and ninth days). Sticking and tearing, ulcerative pain and heaviness in the whole head, in the morning after rising (tenth day). Transient stitches in the head. Forehead.
Heaviness of the forehead, with frequent fine stitches, wherewith the whole head feels shattered (second day). Violent pressive pain in the forehead, as if everything would press out. Pressive headache, commencing in the forehead and extending over the whole head, in the afternoon. Two painful tearings in the middle of the forehead (fourth day). Violent sticking headache in the left frontal eminence, which extended into the side of the head (third day). Burning in the forehead (first day). Pressive pain in the sinciput, especially in the frontal region and in the orbits (after a quarter of an hour). Temples. Pressing feeling in both temples and towards the forehead (after twenty minutes). Dull drawing pain in the right temple (after half an hour). A violent dull stitch in the right temple, which extended to all sides (ninth day). Sticking pain in the right temple, in the afternoon. Sticking pain in the left temple, towards evening.
Tingling in the temples, in the evening (sixth day). Vertex and Parietals. Thrusts like stitches in the vertex and occiput (after six days). Sticking and tearing in the upper part of the right side of the head. Occiput. Dull pain in the occiput.- Pressive pain in the occiput, in the evening (first day).
Violent compressing pain in the middle of the occiput (after eight hours). Violent boring pain in a small spot in the right side of the occiput, at night (first day). Violent tearing in the right side of the occiput (fifteenth day).
Eye.
Burning in the eyes aggravated by moving them; followed by sticking in them, during which the whites were injected with red vessels (after nine days). Violent burning in the eyes, with profuse lachrymation and redness of the white of the eye on exerting the eyes (after five days). Biting in the right eye, relieved by rubbing, followed by pressure as from sand in the eye, wherewith he saw blue and red rings (fourth day). Itching of the left eye. Orbit. A sudden pressure from above the left eye, with a feeling as if everything internal moved somewhat (sixth day). A sudden pressure as with the ball of the finger above the right eye (sixth day). Very frequent painless jerking or twitching above the left eye (eighth day). Lid. Visible twitching of the left upper lid (ninth day). Violent jerking in the left upper lid as if it were forcibly shaken (third day).
Violent burning in the outer canthi, in the morning. Painful itching sensation in both inner canthi (after ten hours). Ball.
Pressive pain on the upper surface of the left eyeball (after half an hour). Vision. Great weakness of the eyes, for several days. Flickering before the eyes. On looking away from her work and to one side, long green spots appeared before the eyes in the dark, and also appeared to go before her when walking in the dark; frequently repeated (third day).
Ear.
Tearing in front of the right ear as if in the bone (fifth day).
Sticking in front of the left ear, extending into it (second day). A painful boring and tearing in the right ear (third day).
Roaring and tearing in the right ear in frequent paroxysms (after twelve days).
Nose.
Frequent sneezing (second day). Nosebleed (fifteenth day).
Frequent blowing of bloody crusts from the nose (after fourteen days). Twitching in the left side of the nose. Transient griping at the tip of and on several parts of the face (first day).
Face.
Twitching in the left malar bone, extending into the frontal eminence (third day). Violent boring pain in the right cheek- bone (after half an hour). Frequent tearing in both cheeks (sixth day). Frequent tearing in a small spot on the right cheek (sixth day). Transient tearing in the left zygoma three times in succession (ninth day). Sensation in a small spot on the right cheek, as if a cold substance had fallen upon it, with tickling.
Violent transient tearing in the right upper jaw, several days in succession, at 5 P.M. Sharp intermittent stitches in the right cheek (sixth day). Lip. Violent jerking in the upper lip. Very transient prickling pains in the left half of the upper lip and in both cheeks (after nine hours). Feeling as if there were a blister on the right side of the upper lip. China Violent stitch in the left side of the chin, extending into the articulation of the jaw, where it seemed as if it would be pressed inward, without, however, hindering its motion. Tearing in the right lower jaw (fifth day).
Mouth.
Teeth. The front teeth feel on edge (first day). Violent clawing in the teeth, so that he scarcely knew what to do; preceded by accumulation of much water in the mouth. A screwing- together sensation in the teeth (second day). Jerking pain in the lower back tooth. Transient jerking in the roots, now of the right, now of the left teeth, in the evening. Painful jerking in the right eyetooth. Tearing in the roots of the incisors.
Tearing in a sound back tooth. Tearing and sticking in the stump of a tooth, in the evening. Sticking toothache. Fine crawling and drawing in the front teeth (after half an hour).
Gum. The gum of the right eyetooth and right cheek were swollen up as far as under the eye and painful to touch. Burning in the whole gum and a feeling as though it were swollen. A transient stitch in the upper gum (ninth day). Tongue. The tongue is coated with mucus, with a feeling of dryness upon it (fourth day). The tip of the tongue is painful as if eroded (after twenty-six days). General Mouth. Bad odor from the mouth (second day). Mouth slimy, in the morning on waking (after four days). A painful pimple internally on the left cheek. Dryness of the mouth, in the morning on waking. Feeling of dryness in the mouth with the usual secretion of the saliva (after one hour). Feeling of numbness in the mouth, in the morning on waking (seventh day). Taste. Bitter taste in the mouth, in the morning, with dryness on the palate (after twenty days). Dry earthy taste in the mouth with a thickly-coated tongue (tenth day).
Throat.
Rawness of the throat, which provokes hacking cough. Rawness and dryness in the throat, in the morning. Sudden rawness in the throat, which provokes hawking, and is relieved thereby, in the evening (fourth day). Pain in the left side of the throat on swallowing (seventh day). Fauces inflamed and painful on swallowing (after twenty-four days). Some itching in the pharynx on swallowing.
Stomach.
Appetite and Thirst. After dinner, hunger again, which, however, soon disappears without eating anything (first day). Loss of appetite. No appetite; as soon as he ate a few mouthfuls of meat it disgusted him; black bread tasted the best, for three weeks together (after four days). Loss of appetite; nothing had a natural taste except milk and black bread (first day). Much thirst (first days). Very great desire for beer, for eight days in succession (after six days). Eructation and Hiccough. Empty eructations. Violent long-continued hiccough, which caused pain in her chest (fourth day). Nausea. Nausea, with a sensation of burning heat in the face (after a quarter of an hour). Constant nausea, with diminished appetite. Stomach insipid and nauseated, with weakness and ill-humor. Qualmishness with retching (after two hours). She is qualmish in the pit of the stomach (after half an hour). Stomach. The Stomach feels oppressed, with, on inspiration, a sensation in it like a slowly spreading stitch, in the afternoon. Pressure in the pit of the stomach. Pressure in the stomach, worse on walking, relieved by eructations; it disappears on eating but returns after a few hours, with a feeling of fulness in the whole abdomen. Constriction in the stomach, followed by uprisings of clear water. Burrowing in the stomach and upper abdomen (soon). Twinging feeling in the stomach (after half an hour). Cutting feeling in the epigastric region, in the afternoon. Stitches in the stomach, now in the right, now in the left side (fourth day).
Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.