The pure Phosphate of Iron is triturated for use.
Generalities
Malaise all the evening. Weariness in morning, on waking; at 1 P.M. (not having eaten since breakfast), with desire for brandy.
Mind
Hasty, intolerant feeling in afternoon. Impetuous feeling in evening, yet obstacles cause hindrance and annoyance and trifles seem like mountains, intolerant of hindrance and annoyance. Annoyed at the conversation of fellow-passengers in street-car, (<) when earnest or excited, (>) afternoon. Shrinking and timid at hearing cross words about an absent strange. Soothing, pleasant effect from walking in a quiet part of the city after dark, ceasing on returning to the bustle of the central streets. Inertia, indifference to ordinary matters, craving for brandy without real muscular debility. Loss of courage and hope early in evening, (>) sleep.
Head
Feeling as from insufficient sleep, fell asleep at my table at 4.30 P.M. Pain all day, (<) r. side, (<) first thinking of it; P. from r. brow to r. ear when reading; in r. side. Sharp twinges of pain over whole l. side at 11 P.M.; from r. vertex to r. supraorbital foramen in afternoon. Aching Dullness extending from vertex towards orbits and sides of head as a pressure, (<) holding head down when writing, (>) when walking, but when walking in the street more in occiput, and when rising, walking, etc. most in vertex, as the force of the circulation most impinges, it always seems in subcutaneous cavities. Pain in posterior part of base of skull in afternoon at every concussion (as of coughing or even sudden and hard smacking of lips).
Clinical Symptoms of meningitis of the brain, suffused eyes, full, soft pulse, with drowsiness and heaviness. Violent headache, throbbing, followed and (>) by nosebleed. Violent headaches during menstruation; the head is extremely sensitive to pain (compare Fer-met.).
Eyes and Ears
Smarting in edges of r. lids. Neuralgia at l. inner brow and down l. side of nose, in evening when riding. sharp aching at outer edge of l. orbit, as if in bone, at 7.30 P.M., on r. side at 8.30. Sticking in r. ear; on going to bed, extending as a headache above periosteum of that side.
Clinical Encysted tumor of the eyelids. Inflammation of the external ear, with muco-purulent discharge, ear red and swollen, mastoid process swollen and sore.
Nose and Face
Lips blue after a tepid sponge bath. Grumbling in l. lower jaw, near filled molar. Smarting in r. anterior nasal passage; r. posterior nasal passage (<) inspiration, (>) expiration.
Mouth and Throat
Increase of the usual light coat on tongue, with yellowish tint increasing towards the base. Liberation of pharyngeal, tracheal and nasal mucus. Working down of phlegm behind velum palati, also loosening from below.
Clinical Sore throat, catarrhal affections of the Eustachian tube and ears, especially in singers.
Stomach
Indifferent to food on sitting down to supper, but ate heartily. Thirst for cold water and for brandy in morning; for brandy on rising in morning after studying till 2 A.M., took a teaspoonful with good effect; for at 1 P.M., at 3 P.M. no desire for dinner but for brandy, if he took a teaspoonful, he then ate with relish, the same desire before breakfast. Irritating, greasy eructation. Hiccough at noon after sitting bent towards the floor; H. when respiration compressed the stomach and afterwards. Nausea in morning on rising. Heartburn at 9.30 P.M. when sitting bent forward reading, with eructations causing coughing and hemming, irritation in throat and behind left of mid-sternum, later eructations of gas and of greasy fluid provoking cough (had had stewed oysters and aromatic tea at supper). Pinching in epigastrium.
Clinical Dyspepsia, with loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting after eating, aggravation from acids, especially with pulsating headaches, profuse menses, restlessness, etc. Persistent vomiting of food, often before eating in the morning, in women.
Abdomen
Emission of fetid flatus when standing leaning over the table, continuing when undressing. Pain in transverse colon; at 3 P.M.; at breakfast, when bending forward, repeated when standing, using arms moderately towards the left. Threatening of diarrhoea from colon to rectum.
Stool and Urinary and Sexual Organs
Stool soft, yellow, easy. Urine pale, copious, in cool weather; in warm weather, and limpid, less copious and darker in cooler weather; when pale there were several crystalline forms, the principal being hexagonal plates answering to cystin, and tablets answering to uric acid and chloride of sodium.
Clinical Haemorrhoids. Cholera infantum, with red face, full soft pulse, stools watery or even bloody, after checked perspiration. Haemorrhage from the bladder. Irritable or inflamed bladder, with frequent urging. Retention of urine, with fever, in children. Ovarian neuralgia. Dysmenorrhoea, with sacral pines, headache, frequent urging to urinate, pains in l. ovary.
Chest, Heart and Pulse
Pain in C. in morning. Oppression of l. C. and stomach from indignation. Palpitation when sitting; when sitting writing. Pulse accelerated.
Clinical Its action upon the respiratory organs may be clearly foreshadowed by the provings of Ferrum and Phosphorus like Ferrum, it is indicated in congestions of the respiratory organs, even when there is considerable fever, especially notice that the oppression and dyspnoea, both of which are extremely marked in Ferrum and Phosphorus, are duplicated in this chemical compound and afford good indications for its use; so, in a general way, symptoms of oppression like Phosphorus, with the even paroxysmal; there may be expectoration of blood either streaked clear.
Neck and Back
Pain in neck in morning. Pain in l. lower lumbar region when walking bent forward; in sacro-iliac symphysis at 1 P.M. on walking in the street after standing, (>) pressure. The habitual aching in dorsal spine ((<) standing or sitting, (>) walking or leaning back against chair) is increased, also (>) change of position. Tired feeling in r. lumbar region in evening when sitting in church.
Extremities
Rheumatic feeling in r. wrist after writing, extending downward in dorsal tendons, (<) rest, then the pain ebbs and flows, when writing it sometimes extends up forearm, (<) dorsal and ulnar aspects, on rising felt in little finger to first phalanx, (>) warmth and wrapping.
Clinical In articular rheumatism, especially of the shoulder, the pain extend to the upper part of the chest; and of the hands, which re swollen and painful, or of the knee, with severe pain, or of the ankle, with shooting pain.
Sleep and Fever
Drowsiness at 4.30 P.M., felt much in eyes, extending up into head, necessity to take a nap. Sensitive to cool air; at noon; all the Evening. Dry heat of palms; when sitting, and of face; D. heat of face, hands, throat and upper chest at 6 P.M.
Clinical There may be heat, with quick, soft pulse, thirst and sweat, which does not relieve the patient (Ferrum).
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.