Violent headache in the temporal region (immediately), (fifth day). Contractive pain and feeling of emptiness in the temporal region (second day). (His usual headache was to-day confined to the left temple, with increase of the confusion and heaviness of the head), (sixth day). Pressive pain in the left temporal region, with heat of the head, followed by confusion of the right side of the head (seventh day). Sticking in both temporal bones, as if the point of the knife were sticking from within outward (second day). Stitches in the left temple, then in the whole of the forehead, with vertigo, followed by pressure in the forehead (tenth day). Dull stitches in the right temporal region, in all positions (after three hours). Some drawing stitches in the left temporal region, disappearing after touch (after sixteen hours).
Jerking stitches, first in the left, then in the right temporal region. Jerking and drawing pain in the left temple towards the vertex, with confusion of the head, especially in the frontal region, and stiffness of the neck (first day). Vertex. Slight pressure in the vertex, as if the brain were bound about with a cloth, and he were thereby deprived of his senses (second day).
Pressive headache in the middle of the vertex, which at times causes dizziness. Pressure, afterwards sticking, in the region of the right coronal suture, with general confusion of the head (twenty-first day). Stitches in the coronal suture and pulsations in the temporal arteries (seventh day). Sharp stitches in the coronal suture (sixth day). Parietals. Heat and sensation of fullness in the right side of the head (second day).
Sudden violent boring in the left parietal bone. Stitches on the right and left side of the head, worse along the coronal suture (second evening). Occiput. Dull headache in the occiput.
External Head. Some pimples appear on the scalp of the occiput, without sensation, and painless when touched (after half an hour). Fine sharp itching-sticking in the scalp; on scratching it always commences a new in another place. Itching in the scalp (seventh day). Itching on the scalp, neck, and shoulders, and below the axillae (second day).
Eye
Objective. Eyes glittering (first day). The eyes lie deep in the orbits and have a weak look (after one hour and a half).
Eyes are sunken, surrounded by blue rings (second day).
Subjective. Burning in the right eye (seventh day). Burning in the eyes, lasting through the whole proving, especially aggravated on reading; with considerable injection of the conjunctiva (the latter not unusual to the prover), (seventh day). Burning in the eyes and flickering of the light on attempting to read in the evening in bed (as he was accustomed to do), so that he was obliged to put out the light, after which he fell asleep and slept uninterruptedly the whole night (very unusual), (sixth day). Violent, sticking, piercing itching in the eyes and lids. Lids. Swelling of the upper lids (without dilatation of the pupil), (after one hour). Vibrating of the right upper eyelid for four or five minutes, always noticed when one rubs the eye or forehead; this symptom was also noticed on the three succeeding days, and after six days it entirely disappeared (twenty-first day). Blinking of the lids (seventh day). Blinking of the right upper lid (sixth day). Blinking of the eyelids on the slightest pressure or rubbing (seventh day).
Contraction of the eyelids as from strong light (third day).
Lids seem to be contracted (fifth day). Dryness and pressure in the lids, as if swollen, with violent itching sticking in them and in the eyeballs (after seven hours). Pressure in the eyelids, as if agglutinated (second day). Pressure upon the eyelids on frequent waking at night (first day). Pressure in the left canthus (first day). Pressure in the left inner canthus (fifteenth day). Itching in the right inner canthus (sixth day).
Conjunctiva. Visible vessels in the whites of the eyes, especially of the left (sixth day). Ball. Dull stitches in the right eyeball and upper lid (after four hours). Pupil. Pupils dilated (after one hour and a half). Extreme dilatation of the pupils, especially of the right (after fifteen hours and a half).
Pupils decidedly contracted (seventh day). Great contraction of the pupils as before, followed, after three or four seconds, by dilatation, and so on, until at last great contraction persisted (from second local application), (sixth day). Remarkable contraction of the pupil, followed by dilatation; the prover seemed to be able to see the fibres of the iris as through a magnifying glass; contraction and dilatation alternated every second and seemed to be dependent on the respiration, occurring in the moment after inspiration or expiration; this condition continued half an hour, but in a less degree (from application of the 1st dil)., (sixth day). Vision. Vision more acute than usual; the prover could distinguish colors at a much farther distance (sixth day). Obscuration of vision (after one hour and a half). Dimness of vision (sixth day). Dimness of vision at times (fourth day). Dimness of vision and spots before the eyes, especially on waking (first day). Dim vision (fourth day). Dim vision in the morning (second day). Dim vision, also double vision (sixth day). Dimness before the eyes (fourth day). Fog before the eyes, so that she was obliged to stop knitting in the afternoon (second day). Double vision, so that it was impossible to continue working (third day). Objects seem double the whole day (fourth day). Objects seem double, as, for example, a needle (immediately after taking), (third day). All objects seem double, with heat in the head (fourth day). Flickering before the eyes, as of various colors, glittering needles, vision as of smoke or fog (second day). Flickering before the eyes, commencing in the morning with a headache, continuing uninterruptedly in the right eye for six days, and disappearing entirely on the seventh day; in the left it was less severe, but lasted three weeks; the power of vision also diminished daily; objects at first seemed quite obscured, but afterwards, on the seventh day (after the last dose), the contour of even large objects was very indistinct, and he was unable to read either day or night; the light appeared like a luminous ball; these symptoms disappeared from the right eye after eight days and the former visual power returned, but the symptoms continued nearly a month in the left; he also noticed that, with the eyes open as well as closed, he seemed to see at a distance of about two feet a dark disk as large as a two-groschen piece, which seemed frequently to be pierced by brilliant lightnings; this disappeared after lasting eight days; after this it seemed as though he constantly saw with the left eye through a dark blue glass. Slight flickering before the eyes (sixth day). Slight flickering before the eyes and confusion of the head. Vision of colors before the eyes (third day). She complained that she was yellow, at other times green, before the eyes (third day). At times she saw black, at times yellow, at other times double vision, so that she was obliged to stop knitting (fifth day). Rings around the light, on which account she was several times obliged to stop her work (embroidering on white), (fourth day).
( The muscae volitantes, which the prover usually had in an intense light, disappeared during the whole of the proving).
Ear
Feeling in the right ear as though it were stopped with cotton, or as though one were holding something before it, so that sound could not enter it as usual (after thirty-six hours). Drawing pain in the inner passages of the right ear; hearing was less distinct in this ear (after half an hour). Itching stitches in the right ear, which kept growing worse, then disappeared of themselves and left behind a burning in the same place. Fine tearing in the inner passages of the left ear. Hearing.
Roaring in the ears (second, third, and sixth days), (sixth day), etc. Roaring in the ears, on walking a long time (after the larger doses). Roaring and ringing in the ears (sixth day).
Ringing and sticking in the ears, especially at night, with headaches (third day).
Nose
Objective. Sneezing (first and third days and second evening). Sneezing (from smelling the juice), (after half an hour).
Frequent sneezing (third day). Frequent sneezing and yawning (second day). Violent sneezing, with itching of the ear (second day). Frequent coryza, which seemed to be the cause of febrile excitement (second morning). Fluent coryza, without sneezing.
Fluent coryza, with frequent sneezing (after seven hours). Sudden profuse coryza (after half an hour). Acute catarrh, with slight fever and great heat. Several times in the night sudden discharge of a large quantity of clear watery mucus from the nose, without sneezing. Frequent slight epistaxis (eleventh day). Subjective. Dryness of the nose (second day). Pressive pain across the nasal bones (second evening). Smell.
Diminished smell. Strong odors do not affect the smell (third day).
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.