Head
Confusion and Vertigo. Forehead confused, heavy (after one hour). Vertigo. Vertigo (after one hour and three-quarters). Vertigo on rising. Vertigo on rising, with a stunning pain in the back part of the head, and he falls. Vertigo, with backward inclination of the head (first day). On walking, slight inclination to vertigo (after five hours). Head dizzy (second day). Dizziness in head (after two hours). Dizziness as in intoxication (second day). Dizziness on bending forward, or walking (first day). Strong coffee relieved the dizziness (second day). Giddiness (after one hour). Giddiness; everything seemed turning round, for some time (after one hour). Transient feeling in head as if something were going round in it, from before backwards, on right side (after one hour and one-sixth). Peculiar feeling of moving, or what is called swimming in head, with transient feeling of constriction round head (after one hour and two-thirds). Scarcely any effect while sitting quiet, but on beginning to walk, perhaps three hours afterwards, staggered, and was quite drunk. These symptoms would abate on sitting down, but would be again reproduced on rising. General Head. Frequent involuntary shaking of his head. Dulness of head (after forty-five minutes). Felt an opium-like dulness in the head (after one hour). Seething or crisping of blood through the brain, quick, like a flash of sheet lightning. For several months, in fact for nearly a year afterwards, I was troubled with a crisping sensation in the brain, just as I felt asleep or awoke from sleep; not every night, but probably once a week. The head felt light, mind remarkably active, and yet apparently sluggish. Head heavy, confused, with vertigo (after one hour and a half). His head feels very heavy; he loses consciousness and falls. Heaviness of the head, wandering of the mind, and apprehension that he was going to faint. Pain from bottom of orbit, through brain and in the ear. Fulness of the head, with a sharp intermittent pain in the right side, under the parietal bone. Gradual expansive feeling of the brain, as if myself were apart from myself and dwelling in a new world, within the cavity of the skull. Fulness in the head, with drowsiness and flushes in the face. Curious constrictive feeling in head, with inability to think (after two hours). Great constriction in head, as from an iron skull-cap. Head feels achy and confused (second day). On waking, headache. Severe headache, especially at the vertex, with beating (second day). Intermittent headache, in a spot on left side of head, near the anterior-inferior angle of parietal bone (after one hour and two-thirds). Dull, heavy, throbbing pain through the head, with a sensation like a heavy blow on the back of the head and neck. Heavy insurmountable pressure on the brain, forcing him to stoop. In warm room again compression of brain, with paralytic feelings. The head feels bruised, with a pressive pain. On regaining consciousness, violent shocks pass through his brain. Headache while in the sun. Coffee almost instantly relieved the headache following. Forehead. Pains in forehead for some time (after one hour and a half). Heavy frontal headache (in about thirty provers). Heavy frontal headache in the brain, more to left side. Heaviness and heat in the forehead, very slight, and short- lasting (after three hours). Heat in the forehead. Fulness in the forehead, as if it would burst. Fulness and heaviness in forehead, with pressure at root of nose and over the eyes; headache over left eye; dull hard pain in top of head; pain in back of head left side. Dull drawing pain in the forehead, especially over the eyes. Pressure on his forehead and top of his head, which seemed to cause his slowness of speech and action. All the afternoon had headache, pressing outwards over the eye. Throbbing, aching pain in the forehead. Jerking in the right side of the forehead, towards the interior and back part of the head. Temples. Burning pain in both temples. Aching in both temples, most severe in the right. Dull, sticking pain in the right temple. Darting, throbbing pain in the right temple, and from the back of the head to the forehead. Severe stitch in the right temple, gradually changing to a pressive pain. Parietals. Pain in the whole right side of the head. Sharp pain in right side of the head, running from inner canthus of eye up, back and out (after eleven hours). 11 A.M., boring pain in right parietal protuberance (third day). Occiput. Headache in occiput and temples (first day). Fulness in the right side of the cerebellum, with a dull pain, worse on shaking the head. Sensation of pressure at the back of the head, before the occurrence of convulsive movements, which changed into an unpleasant feeling of heat, then of cold, in consequence of which his hands were carried automatically to that spot, and held there, as though there were a difficulty in detaching them. Feeling of something surging up from posterior part of head toward forehead (after two hours). Feeling, for a few seconds, of something surging like waves up the neck into the head, seeming to press it forwards (after one hour and one-sixth). External Head. Scalp and skin of forehead felt as though tightly stretched over skull, as a bladder is stretched over a jar (after one hour and two-thirds). Soreness of the scalp to touch. Crawling in the scalp on the top of the head. Pressing pain on different spots of the cranial bones, in the left wrist and ankle, and violent pain in the muscles below the left shoulder-blade (after three and a half hours).
Eyes
Objective. Wild-looking eyes (first day). Seemed to have awakened suddenly, and stared wildly about him (after one hour). Fixed gaze. Eye has an expression of cunning and merriment. On looking at himself in the mirror was struck with the small drunken appearance of the eyes (after eight hours). Languid eyes; heaviness of the head (second day). Eyes swollen and inflamed (second day). Eyes dull and swollen (in about thirty provers). Subjective. Weakness of the eyes. Heaviness in the eyes. Heaviness and pressure over the eyes, with nausea. Heat in the eyes. Feeling of burning heat, more marked in the eyes than in the lids, and severe (after three hours). Burning and smarting in the eyes. Great pressure in the right eye. Orbit. Pain as from a blow over the orbit of the right eye. Lids. Bloodvessels of upper eyelids become very full and distended, with feeling of heat (after one hour and one-sixth). Contraction of the eyelids (second day). Dropping appearance of the eyelids, followed at last by a comatose state, lasting for hours, out of which it was almost impossible fully to arouse the energies. Twinkling of the eyes (first day). His eyelids feel very heavy, and he can only partially open them. Burning and itching of the edges of the eyelids. Slight soreness of upper eyelids (after one hour and two- thirds). A cool burning-stinging in inner corner and canthus of left eye and adjacent side of nose. Jerking in the external corner of the eye and eyelid. Jerking from the head to the outer canthus of the left eye, from above downwards. Lachrymal Apparatus. Inflammation and swelling of the caruncula lachrymalis of both eyes. Conjunctiva. Conjunctiva congested, without any abnormal sensation there. Conjunctiva of eyes covered with distended vessels (after three hours). Injection of the vessels of the conjunctiva of both eyes. The vessels of the conjunctiva of both eyes are injected in a triangular patch extending from the internal canthus to the cornea; worse in the night. Ball. Slight pain at back of eyeball. Feeling of distension of eyeballs, as if starting out of head; they ached when he tried to read (after one hour and a half). Pupil. Dilatation of the pupil. Pupils moderately dilated, iris somewhat sensitive to the light, conjunctiva somewhat injected. Pupils widely dilated. Pupils contracted (second day). Clairvoyance (in about thirty provers). Apparent clairvoyance, that is, I saw or fancied I saw, articles in another room, but the sensation was of short duration (after four hours). At midnight precisely, awoke suddenly and fully; the room was dark, still the location of every article about his seemed perfectly plain; he could read the titles of book upon a table twelve or fifteen feet off (after four hours). As soon as he had urinated, the clairvoyant-like vision left him. Weakness of sight. Sight rather hazy. He cannot see, with the exception of a small spot where he looks. Sensitiveness of the right eye to the light, with lachrymation. Ugly faces assume a pleasing expression. Faces assumes such ridiculous appearances that he bursts into fits of laughter. The room seemed larger (after one hour). The globe of the lamp appeared of an enormous size. Whatever he looked at became lost, as it were, in a maze; the lamp appeared to be slowly turning round, and when he lost sight of this, the red lines in the paper of the room appeared to intertwine in a most beautiful manner. Photopsia. While reading, the letters run together. Twinkling, trembling, and glimmering before the eyes. A large spot hovers a little above the vision of the left eye, sinking when he looks down, rising when he looks up. Violent spots on the paper, while reading. The flame of a candle seems surrounded by a pea green circle.
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.