Head
Confusion and Vertigo. Confusion of the head. Confusion of the head, with perfectly clear consciousness. Confusion of the head, changing to vertigo (after one hour). Confusion of the head, which soon changed to a vertigo. Slight confusion of the head (after two hours). Slight confusion of the head, especially in the anterior portion. Head confused, burning hot. Vertigo, etc. Vertigo; was obliged to steady himself, it seemed as if he could not stand still. Vertigo, so severe that he was obliged to sit down, to avoid falling (fourteenth hour after 16 drops). Vertigo, so severe that the knees knock together, and he nearly falls (soon after 20 drops). Vertigo, returning at various times. Short attacks of vertigo, after repeated inclinations to vomit. Frequent short attacks of vertigo. Vertigo, when sitting. Vertigo, with tendency to fall forward, when walking. Vertigo and heaviness of the head, especially on stooping. Vertigo, with sparks before the eyes. Said she had no pain, but her head turned round (after three hours). Seized with giddiness, for the relief of which she went out of her room, but the giddiness increased and compelled her to return. Giddy, confused, and forgetful (after one hour). Giddiness and dimness of sight (after twenty minutes). He staggered as if drunk. He staggers from side to side, when walking, and is obliged to steady himself, in order to stand still. General Head. The head is thrown back. The head was spasmodically drawn sideways towards the shoulder (after a few minutes). (*The effects of a large dose given to a child, on account of which the sense vanished; all parts of the body become deadly cold, etc. H.*) (Inflammation of the brain (fatal)). Rush of blood to the head (after six hours). Great rush of blood to the head. (*The vertigo at first, and loss of consciousness, together with general coldness of the body, seem to be the primary action of a large dose of camphore, and point to a diminished afflux of blood from the heart to the distant portions of the body; while the rush of blood to the head, heat in the head, etc., are the reaction of vitality, just as much as the previous opposite condition is the supposed primary action. So slight inflammation, which appears suddenly, may be removed by the palliative, cooling effects of the primary action of camphor taken internally; but long-continued inflammations cannot be so removed. The continued or even frequently repeated use of camphor is not seldom followed by obstinate inflammation of the eyes, which is persistent, as one of the secondary or reactionary conditions of the organism. Although I cannot deny that an external application of camphor acts homoeopathically in acute cases of inflammation of the eyes, yet I myself do not approve of it, since judging by experience, I never treat such cases by external applications. H.*) Congestion of the head. Lightness in head. Head felt rather light. Head heavy. Heaviness in the head. Heaviness of the head, especially the vertex. Heaviness of the head, with vertigo; the head sank backward (after ten minutes). Dizzy heaviness of the head (after twelve hours). Stupefying feeling in the head, like the effects of laudanum (after two hours). Headache. Headache, beginning in the frontal region and extending to the occiput. Headache, in the morning after rising, for several days in succession. Headache, with burning pain in stomach, eructations, great thirst, and a sense of formication in the extremities. Headache, with drawings in the right side. Sudden headache (soon after). Severe headache. Very severe headache. Intense headache, which confined him in bed for several days. Intense headache and giddiness. Violent headache. Heat in the head, and tearing headache, soon passing off and disappearing on pressure (after eleven hours). Headache, as from constriction of the brain. Transient headache, as if the brain were compressed from all sides, only felt during half consciousness, when he was not paying attention to his body; if he became conscious of his pain and thought of it, immediately disappeared (after four and a half hours). A contractive pain at the base of the brain, especially in the occiput, an above the root of the nose, which continues without cessation, whereby the head is leaned to one or the other side; a pain which is very much increased by stooping low, lying down, or by external pressure; with coldness of the hands and feet, hot forehead, and coma vigil. Towards evening, felt aching in middle of head, from the forehead backwards, which lasted through the evening and next day. Drawing sensation all around head, as if the nerves of the head were all drawn up; drawings for some minutes, then remissions, then drawings again. Dull headache extending from the forehead to the temples, after thee hours; this pain returns after a larger dose the next day, increase gradually all day, reaches its greatest severity at evening; it is frequently accompanied by transient stitches in both temples and in the orbits; very much relieved in the afternoon, during a walk in the open air. Pressive sensation in the head. Pressive headache from within outward, immediately. Fine tearing in the head, especially in the forehead (after seven hours). Pressive tearing headache. Headache, as if bruised, or as if the brain were sore. Headache; cutting jerks shoot from the forehead and temples to the middle of the brain, returning after short intervals, immediately after lying down (after half an hour). Throbbing in head. Throbbing headache. Forehead. Heaviness and heat in the forehead, worse when walking. Troublesome heaviness in the forehead. Heat in the forehead. Head in the forehead, especially in the vertex. Slight headache in the forehead, which gradually became more violent, and accompanied by stitches, apparently starting in the temporal bones, and returning every five minutes. Dull headache above the frontal bone, with nausea. Pressure in the forehead. Pressure in the middle of the forehead (after three and a half hours). Pressure and heaviness in the upper forehead. Pressure on the right side of the forehead. Pressure in the left side of the forehead. Tearing pressure and pressing from within outward in the left side of the forehead (after seven and a half hours). A pressive though not painful sensation in the forehead, changing after half an hour to a confusion of the head. In the evening, pressive headache over the left eye (after nine hours). Pressive headache, alternating in the forehead and at the sides (second day). Tearing-sticking headache in the forehead, and pressure on the upper part of the frontal bone (after four hours). Throbbing- stinging headache in the forehead, which continues through the night, with general dry heat, without thirst. Fine tearing pain in the left side of the forehead and left side of the occiput (after half an hour). Throbbing headache, in forehead. Throbbing headache in forehead, over root of nose, with heat (after one and a half hours). Temples. Throbbing of the temporal arteries, an distended jugular veins. Boring headache in the temples, especially during the morning nap; returns daily, during the whole proving; after waking, it ceases, and is followed by pain in the teeth. Boring headache in the right temple, ending with a stitch, which extends with great severity into the eye and tooth, lasting three seconds and returning after three seconds, in the morning, on waking (second day). Tearing pressure in the right temple (after one hour). Throbbing pressure in the temples. Fine tearing in the right temple and forehead (after one and three- quarter hours). Vertex. Dull pressure in the region of the vertex. Severe pressure on the right side of the vertex. Parietals. Pressure by jerks, in the head, over the left ear. Single violent stitches in the right half of the brain (after four hours). Occiput. Uneasy feeling at back of head (second day). Pressure in the occiput. Cutting pressure from the left side of the occiput towards the forehead (after half an hour). Throbbing in the cerebellum. External Head. Scalp intensely hot.
Eyes
Objective. Eye staring. He looks at one staring, and wondering without consciousness (after two hours). Staring inflamed eyes. Staring, distorted eyes. Eyes hollow (After three days). Blue circles around eyes. Eyes brilliant. Eyes glittering. Distorted eyes. Eyes inflamed. Inflammation of the eyes (after ten hours). Subjective. A feeling of tension in the eyes (after three- quarters of an hour). Soreness or tense, stiff feeling in eyes and eyelids all day. Orbit, etc., Pressure above right eye. Pressure on the muscles of the right eyebrow (after three- quarters of an hour). Lids. The eyelids are covered with many red spots (after twenty- four hours). Twitching of lids. Eyelids, in constant agitation, and half closed, showed the eyeballs turned upwards and outwards. Visible jerking and twitching of the upper lid (after thirty-six hours). Transient burning in the eyelids. Burning in edges of lids. Biting and sticking in the lids (after five hours). Biting at the edges of the lids. Smarting in the lids. Biting-itching in the lids. Frequent twitching in the external canthus (after twenty-eight hours). Biting in the external canthus (after half an hour). Lachrymal Apparatus. Lachrymation in the open air. Conjunctive. Conjunctivae injected. Conjunctiva injected (after two hours). Very red spots on the white of right eye, without pain (after twenty-four hours). Ball. The eyeballs were turned outward. Pressing-out pain in the right eyeball on moving it (after two hours). Sensation in the left eyeball as from pressure and pushing upon it from behind (after two and a half hours). Pupil. Pupils inclined to dilate rapidly. Pupils dilated. Pupils dilated (after one hour). Pupils dilated (after three hours). Dilated pupils (after five hours). Pupil not much dilated; scarcely sensible to light (after two hours). Contracted pupils. Excessively contracted pupils (after thirty- five minutes). Pupils contracted, then dilated. Pupils normal, insensible. Vision. Clearer vision. Dimness of vision. Obscuration of sight. Frequent obscuration and many illusions of vision. Sight indistinct, with ocular hallucinations. Photophobia and sensitiveness of vision. Eyes sensitive to the light. He could not endure the light (after half an hour). Objects quivered before his eyes. On reading script in the forenoon, the letters ran together so that he could only read with great difficulty; after ceasing to read a bright circle appeared before the eyes. Objects seem glittering. Flickering before the eyes. Flickering before the eyes (third day). Sensation of increased light. Sensation as if all objects were too bright and glittering (after five hours). Dazzling light before eyes. Sparks and fiery wheels before eyes. Darkness before eyes, as if objects were encircled in a cloud. Small black spots float before the eyes. Hallucinations of vision. Wonderful forms float before the eyes. On closing the eyes, while slumbering, fanciful objects appear before him, which sometimes seem too thick, sometimes too thin; this alternates with the pulse (after two hours).
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.