Pure nitrate of Mercury is triturated for use.
Generalities
Cachectic condition, with discoloration of mucus surface and flabbiness of tissue. Tremor. Subsultus tendinum, so that muscles jumped under skin like a mouse under cloth. Pain; so that he rolled about the floor and called for a knife to kill himself. Indisposition. Weakness. Faintness.
Mind
Delirium. Anxiety. Stupor. Memory poor.
Head, Eyes and Ears
Headache. Dizziness. Eyes sunken. Pupils dilated, to certain extent obedient to light. Ringing in ears.Clinical A very valuable remedy in pustular conjunctivitis and keratitis, especially with burning pain, lachrymation, photophobia, great sensitiveness to heat or cold, sharp sticking pains. It is useful in various forms of ulceration, with Mercurial conditions and with sharp pain. Staphyloma, with kerato-iritis.
Face
Pale and livid; P. and anxious. Flushed. Features contracted. Lips bluish-red.
Mouth
Gums swollen and bleeding. Blackish line on free border of gums, (<) around insertion of lower incisors and painful. Tongue coated. Tongue cannot be protruded well. Mucus membrane red and tumefied; mouth and fauces red and painful. Pain, and in throat. Salivation. Mercurial fetor. Coppery taste.
Throat
Soreness; of fauces, with redness and dryness.Clinical “Mucous patches,” with sticking pains.
Stomach
Eructations, with frothy discharge from mouth and occasional vomiting, first of a fluid containing a red powder, which sank to the bottom of the vessel, then V. of mucus. Hiccough. Nausea. Vomiting; of glairy and tenacious matter; of bilious matter streaked with blood; frequent, of bilious matter at night; and pain. Pain in epigastric region; in region of S. and abdomen of pressure.
Abdomen and Stool
Pain in hypogastrium. Tenesmus. Diarrhoea, with colic. Constipation. Frequent stools. Bloody S., with collapse.
Urinary and Sexual Organs
Micturition painful. Urine high-colored. passed involuntarily. Urine suppressed; and urea was found in blood drawn from arm; but large quantities of water were taken. Sexual power diminished.
Respiratory Organs and Chest
Voice feeble and almost suppressed. Spasmodic movements of muscles of chest, so that heart-sounds cannot be distinctly heard.
Pulse
Rapid and small; and weak; and thready. Small and thready.
Extremities
Tremor causing difficult in prehensile movements and in walking. Sore feeling where they came in contact with the bed, they looked red and inflamed. Control lost when standing and walking, twitchings in bed, with trembling when standing and even in bed, spasms (<) towards evening. Cramp of lower.
Skin
Brownish-red eschar projecting above healthy parts, on l. chest and one on back (parts rubbed with the solution), skin red, inflamed, ecchymosed, with yellow-brown patches, and a similar tract towards r. haunch, where the liquid had flowed down.
Sleep
Sleeplessness.
Fever
Chill. Cold skin; (<) limbs, and clammy. Cold and ecchymosed limbs. Heat; of skin. Sweat.
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.