Dr. Henry C. Allen, M.D., was born October 2, 1836, in the village of Nilestown, near London Ontario. He was a descendant of the Revolutionary War hero, Ethan Allen. He studied medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Ontario, Canada, and received his homeopathic training at Western Homeopathic College (AKA Cleveland Homeopathic College) in Cleveland, Ohio where he graduated in 1861. After his graduation, he entered the Union Army, serving as a surgeon. After the Civil War Allen accepted the professorship of Anatomy at Cleveland and first started the practice of medicine. He later resigned from this post to accept the same chair at the Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago. In 1875, he moved to Detroit and was appointed as the Professor of Materia Medica at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1880. In 1892, Allen helped found the Hering Medical College and was Dean and Professor of Materia Medica until his death. Dr. Allen passed away on January 22, 1909.
Materia Medica of the Nosodes With Provings of X-Ray, by Henry C. Allen, was first published in 1910.
Key Features:-
- This book covers 42 remedies and includes Bernard Fincke's 1897 provings of X-Ray. Allen regarded these remedies as homeopathic and not isopathic remedies.
- The remedies were proved as homeopathic remedies and prescribed according to the totality of symptoms.
- The preliminary remarks for each remedy provide the source of the proof.
- Characteristic symptoms are listed with remedy differential. Systems affected are given with the identifying symptoms.
- The number of marks preceding the symptoms indicates the relative value of each symptom.
- This work is one of the greatest contributions of Dr. H.C. Allen to homeopathic science.