Introduction
Oil of Turpentine. Obtained from various species of conifers. The various oils of Turpentine differ in physical and chemical properties according to their different sources. French Turpentine is obtained from Pinus maritima, Venetian from Pinus larix, American from Pinus taeda. Preparation: Dilutions with pure alcohol.
Mind
Intense excitement of the nervous system. Anxiety; (after one hour). Very distressing anxiety, with great weakness on going to bed (first day). Facility of thought. Dulness of mind; inability to fix the attention long upon anything (after one hour). Slight stupefaction. Perfectly insensible (after three hours). Comatose.
Head
Vertigo, pressure and fullness in the head, threatening apoplexy; after the lapse of three hours, the cerebral irritation abated in consequence of a spontaneous rejection of the oil (second day). Slight vertigo. Dizziness, with nausea and diminished appetite (second day). Momentary vertigo, even to falling down, whereby it became black before the eyes (after six, and fifty-eight hours). The patient was supposed to be dying, but was found to be intoxicated by a free dose of Turpentine. I have seen large doses produce temporary intoxication, and sometimes a kind of trance, lasting twenty-four hours, without, however, any subsequent bad effects. The intoxicating effect of wine was very much heightened by oil of Turpentine, especially the vertigo.
Soon seized with all the symptoms of intoxication; from evening till morning he lay drenched in sweat, in a state of stupor, from which he did not awake until next morning, very weak, and with his head in a state of bewilderment; when undertaking to stand still, he staggered about; he was relieved by a profuse discharge of urine, which had the odor violets. General Head. Head dull.
Fullness in the head (first evening). Extraordinary fullness and pressure in the head, so that the patient constantly cried out, “My head, my head,” and an attack of apoplexy was apprehended.
Headache. General dull headache, with colic, lasting three days.
Tearing, but not very violent, headache alternately till evening, at one time disappearing, at another returning. Tearing headache, extending towards the right side, lasting one day. Slight tearing headache (after one hour). Suffered from headache until the next day. Violent pain in the head. Pressure in the whole head.
Pressive headache in the whole head, with qualmishness, now disappearing, now returning. Heavy pressive headache over the left eye, lasting about half an hour, while sitting and during mental work. A stitch, as with a knife, in the forehead (after twelve hours). Tearing from the forehead out towards the right ear, which is very hot, while the left ear is cold to touch. A smarting-tickling pain in the left temporal region, coming and going, in the evening in bed, which disappears on rubbing (after sixty hours). A transient stitch in the mastoid process behind the right ear (after two hours).
Eye
Eyes sunken. Eyes Sunk and surrounded by a dark ring. Contracted pupils. Pupils violently contracted (after three hours). Black points and spots float for a moment before the eye, when walking in the open air, not when looking at a distance, with very transient sensation of vertigo (after two hours and a half).
Ear
Ringing and singing in the ears, as from the ticking of a watch, increasing for four hours (after six days).
Nose
A peculiar kind of coryza, without disturbance of the general condition, and without the usual accompanying symptoms, and without any premonition, consisting of a thin watery liquid, at times from one, at times from both nostrils, lasting two days (after three to four days). Violent nosebleed.
Face
Spasm of the face, beginning under the chin, affecting the face, even to the cheek-bones, with nervous drawings in the cheeks; these symptoms are felt by the prover, but there is no visible contraction of the face; these symptoms pass off, to be succeeded by a supraorbital headache, as if those parts were bruised.
Countenance anxious. Countenance anxious, shrunk, and pale.
Countenance pallid (after three hours). Face very pale (after one hour). Redness of the face. Drawing in the bones, in the right half of the face and in the forehead, in the evening (fourth day). Lips could scarcely be moved.
Mouth
Drawing in the teeth (first day). (The gum, which burnt, as if sore, nearly every morning, was loose, painful to pressure, and bled easily on brushing the teeth, became entire well after a few days), (curative action). Burning in the tip of the tongue; the papillae very prominent (first day). Breath and perspiration tainted with a Turpentine odor for upwards of a week. Breath cold. Phlyctenules in the mouth. Some burning in the mouth while taking the drug. Sensation of dryness of all the mucous membranes.
Throat
Scraping in the throat frequently provokes hacking cough, in the evening (first day). Scraping sensation in the throat. Sensation of warmth and scraping in the pharynx and stomach. An agreeable coolness in the throat, immediately. No power over deglutition (after three hours).
Stomach
Appetite and Thirst. Hunger and thirst (after one hour and a half). Sudden violent desire for rue (to eat up on bread and butter), of which he had already eaten freely, in the evening, during vigorous and enjoyable mental work (after fifteen hours).
She had less appetite than usual; food of which she was most fond was not relished, and though she was very glad of it, yet she could eat very little. Loss of appetite; for two days. Anorexia.
Very great thirst and appetite (after one hour). Thirst. Violent thirst. Eructations. Rancid eructations. Nausea and vomiting.
Nausea (first day). Nausea, yet inability to vomit, owing to excessive weakness. Meat nauseated her for more than a week.
Slight transient nausea, in the morning. Inclination to vomit.
Vomiting. Vomiting four or five times (after one hour). Vomited freely (after a draught of warm water and melted butter).
Vomiting of yellowish mucus. Vomiting of mucus. Stomach. Loud rumbling in the stomach and intestines, immediately after dinner; the pain extended into the side. Inflammation of the stomach and intestines, so that the slight touch on the abdomen, especially on the epigastric region, could not be endured (second and following days). The symptoms of gastro-enteritis made their appearance (second day). Heat in the stomach. Burning in the stomach. Sensation between pain and burning in the pit of the stomach (after half an hour). Griping beneath the pit of the stomach, with nausea and eructations (after one hour). It seems as though he had swallowed a small ball, which remained in the pit of the stomach. Pressure in the pit of the stomach after eating, as if the food had been swallowed too hastily. Slight pressive pain in a small spot in the pit of the stomach, relieved by stooping, lying, and on deep breathing (after half an hour).
Pressure in the stomach. Pressure as from without in the pit of the stomach. Pressure in the stomach becoming slight nausea, relieved by eructations. Pressure in the stomach, in the evening in bed (lying on the left side), which prevents his falling asleep, relieved and gradually removed after the emission of flatus, while lying on the right side (after seventeen hours).
Abdomen
Hypochondria. Griping in the hypochondriac region. Pressive and cutting pain in the left hypochondriac region, while sitting, disappearing on motion. Violent burning pressure in the hypochondria. Burning in the right hypochondrium (after seventeen hours). Umbilicus and Sides. The umbilical region seems retracted, cold, just as though a cold, round plate were pressed against it, while lying down after dinner. Sticking and griping in the right side soon after an evacuation of the bowels. Slight pressure and drawing in the left side of the upper abdomen.
Transient, jerking sticking in the left side of the upper abdomen, in the evening while urinating (after thirty-six hours).
Tearing cutting in the left side of the abdomen, in the evening, in bed, while lying on the right side; afterwards also on the right side. General Abdomen. Abdomen very much distended, after eating food which he relished. Distension of the abdomen, as after a dose of salts, bitter water, or the like. Fullness in the abdomen, as if he had eaten too much. Feeling of distension in the abdomen, as from flatus, soon obliging him to rest (after three-quarters of an hour). Rumbling in the abdomen. Rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen, followed by colic in the evening.
Rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen in the morning. Rumbling and griping in the abdomen, and thin stool. Meteorismus. Heaviness in the abdomen after the midday nap. Violent irritation of the bowels. Colic (second day). Griping in the abdomen (after a quarter of an hour). Colic, with violent movements in the intestines. She complained of constant colic in the whole abdomen, extending thence into the legs, both during rest and motion. Violent pain in the bowels, but no discharge from them.
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.