Eye
Quivering externally in the right eye, and soon after a burning shooting pain at the bottom of the orbital cavity (after several hours). The vapor affects the eye very much (Liebig). The eye remains affected for several days, so that he has to wink and rub it. Pain in the right eye. A pain very deep in the posterior part of the right eye, and extending very far into the upper jaw, the same which he had at one o’clock in the left side; between 5 and 6 P.M. (ninth day). Burning in the eyes (after fifteen minutes). A pressure upon the right eye, while stooping. Has often an itching in the eyes, which makes him scratch (first week). Painful itching in the left eye, as if from a grain of sand. Brow and Orbit. Heaviness above the eyes, with nausea; worse on motion (after two and three hours). Pain over the right eyebrow, which disappears, but a similar pain appears for a short time in the right small toe (next forenoon). Pain behind the right eye. Drawing around the right eye, in the evening (after fifteen minutes). Behind the left eye, towards the temple, in the left nostril and forehead, there is a pain, which seems to be in the bone, as if, very deeply in the interior, something sharp- pointed was moving about (at 1 P.M., ninth day). Violent jerking internally behind and above the right eyebrow, in the bone (after one hour). Deep in the bones, superior and posterior to the left eye, a soreness occasionally (evening, ninth day). Lids. Sensation as if the eyelids were opened by force and a fresh wind were blowing on them; after that sensation like sand in the eyeball, which had the same feeling as if the eyes were inflamed. Pricking and burning in the internal canthus of eye (second evening). Quivering above the external canthus of the left eye, in one who never had the like (second day). Itching in the right internal canthus of the eye, in the evening. Violent itching at the left inner canthus of the eye, which causes him to scratch very quickly and forcibly (twelfth day). Lachrymal Apparatus. Increased lachrymation. Ball. Pressure as it were behind the right eyeball (second hours). Pupil. Pupils contracted. Vision. Pleasant sensation, as if the eyelids were wider opened, or the eyes more prominent, whereby the circle of the vision becomes more enlarged, the sight clearer, and he feels a kind of luxurious enjoyment while looking at the same things he is used to see every day. During the first hours of the morning inclination to go without glasses, though his short-sightedness as no better; it was very irksome to bring objects near the eyes (second week). In the evening, after retiring, a jerking light before the eyes, crossing itself like lightning (third week). In the evening, after retiring, on closing the eyes, red sparkling cross each other in all possible directions; this gradually ceases, and there remains a red, flaming trembling for a few minutes, which disappears after opening the eyes (second day). On closing the eyes firmly he observes a large bright ring, which quickly vanishes (in the evening of fifth day).
Ear
External. A pain, extending from below upward, behind the right ear. Behind the right ear a pain which moves upward in the head; at the same time in the right heel. Internal. Sensation in the right ear as if there would commerce a ringing in the ear, in the forenoon (second day). Pain in the right ear (fourth day). (A pain, to which he was frequently subject at the opening of the left Eustachian tube, appears after one or two hours, and does not recur again afterwards). Pressing pain in the right ear. A peculiar pressing and itching deep in the left ear; disappears after stirring with the finger in the ear (after one hour). Stitches in the right ear. Jerking behind the left ear. Itching first in the right, afterwards in the left ear. Hearing. The sensitiveness of his hearing is very much increased in the morning (sixth day).
Nose
Objective. Sneezing, in the afternoon (after four hours). Violent sneezing seven times, with a discharge of a small quantity of thin mucus from the nose, and collection of saliva in the mouth, with the sensation in the nose which is sometimes caused by very cold weather; in the morning (second day). (In a case of chronic obstruction of the nose, with a dull heavy pain in the forehead, where Silex 30th, had been of so me service, Acidum fluoricum 30th, immediately caused a running from the nose, without any other improvement). (The same in a case of ulceration). Early in the morning, on rising the mouth with cold water, the nose appears suddenly full of mucus, as if he had fluent coryza, but as quickly passes over again. Frequent attacks of coryza, suddenly appearing and disappearing; it seems as if excitement removed the coryza. Sudden attacks of coryza, suddenly appearing and disappearing again; it seems as if excitement removed the coryza (third to fifth week). Coryza (eighth day); on the right side and fluent, with crawling before the sneezing (ninth day); remains semilateral and fluent (tenth and eleventh days). If he drinks red wine in the evening he has the next morning, or even the next night during sleep, a fluent coryza, with constant dropping and stoppage of the nose, for several weeks, but not from Rhein wine. After drinking ale in the evening, a sudden fluent coryza the next day, from morning till evening, then suddenly disappearing (fourth week). The next morning after drinking ale in the evening a sudden tickling fluent coryza, which lasts the whole day but disappears the next morning (third week). Feeling in the nose as from a severe cold. The nose, which for several months had been neither sore nor painful, began again to be painful, more on the left side (ninth day). The nose was without pain for several weeks, but suddenly after some emissions it began again to pain in the left side (after five weeks). The nose, which for many months was free from excoriation or pain, begins again to feel sore, more towards the left (ninth day). Crawling in the nose. Smell. The odor of the acid is very acrid and penetrating.
Face
It appears to him in the morning as if his countenance had suddenly become old; he looks in the glass and sees beneath the eyes superficial, whitish, puffy folds, extending towards the nose, etc., without being in the slightest discontented there at (ninth day). The facial muscles are constantly in motion. Heat of the face (part of S. 153). In the evening after an animated conversation, heat in the face and headache, like a pressing and forcing deep interiorly towards the left; appearing at times and subsiding again; it then passes to the left upper jaw, as if the teeth ached, even on those places where the roots of the teeth had been extracted a years ago, so decided that he was obliged to feel with the finger; together with an inclination to bite together teeth which no longer existed (second day). Longing to wash the face with cold water; frequent and repeated washing with great satisfaction; for two weeks, afterwards more seldom. Painful sensation, as if the right upper jaw were hot and painful; this is, as it were, reflected in the lower jaw (after fifteen minutes). Compression in both zygomas, drawing downward towards the larynx, where she is conscious of it during deglutition, and also at other times, at 5 P.M. Sensation of warmth and obtusion in the bone of the right upper jaw (after ten minutes). A sensation of warmth on the lips, immediately. Very often a burning like a sore on the inside of the lower lip towards the right, very near the edge (after one and two hours). Slight numbness of the right joint of the lower jaw, a continual sensation of warmth, and as if it would begin to pain (after one and two hours). In both joints of the jaws (worse in the left), a painful cramp like confusion; (had the same sensation occasionally before), (eleventh day). In both joints of the jaws (worse in the left), a painful cramp like confusion; (had the same sensation occasionally before), (eleventh day). In connection with a drawing in the entire left limb, a peculiar sensation in the right lower jaw, not in the bone, but very close to it, in the evening (after twenty-four hours). Burning pain on the outside of the right lower jaw on a small spot near the first or second molar tooth (after one and two hours). In the right articulation of the jaw sensation as if a spasm were to take place (after several hours). Drawing pain in the right lower jaw- bone, towards the middle (one hour after fifth dose). Slight gnawing pain in both sides of the lower jaw, in the bone near the angle (soon after S.33).
Mouth
Teeth, Objective. (A decidedly improve condition of the teeth; the carious teeth seem to secrete less, and the gums do not bleed so easily), (after second week). The right eye-tooth, which was formerly rough, but became afterwards smooth again, is now rough, and commences to ache, particularly at the root of it; in the upper jaw, along the root of the teeth, pressure is very painful, particularly in the evening; it is mitigated temporarily by cold water (third and the following days). Subjective. In the morning the lower incisor teeth feel sharp, as if broken, and the tongue feels painful on touching them for several days (fifth day). Bluntness of the teeth. One drop of the one-sixteenth solution produced in the mouth a bluntness of the teeth, a sensation of sticking, contraction, and tension, after which the mucous membrane of the mouth became whitish and peeled off (after three days). Teeth feel warm, those of the upper jaw, especially on the left side; the incisor and canine are much warmer than any of the others; a few minutes afterwards there is considerable warmth in the pharynx; these sensation ceased in the course of an hour; the prover remarked particularly, that the heat or warmth was felt in the teeth, and not in the gums or alveolar processes. All the teeth of the left jaw seem to pain, especially those whose roots have been taken out. Toothache for a short time in the left lower jaw. Toothache on the right side, extending to the left thigh, the outer portion above the knee. The pain in the tooth on the right side disappears for a moment, and jumps to the left thigh, on the outside above the knee (third day). The cold air in a room causes pain in the carious tooth of the right upper incisor, in the evening (after several hours). Soon after taking the remedy transient pain in the right eye-tooth (in the evening. Digging pain in one of the lower incisors, towards the right (third day). Toothache; drawing in the left lower jaw (after four hours). (The right upper incisors are very sensitive on drinking cold water, and also on inhaling cold air, particularly the one which is decayed; the same symptom some weeks before the proving). Teeth so painful that he could not bite upon them. Gums. (A painful excoriation near the first lower molar tooth, on the right side), (after five weeks). Tongue. Prickling of the tongue, and increase of saliva for some hours, and afterwards combined with smarting feeling of the palate as if something very acrid had been gargled; a feeling of tenderness and irritability in the larynx; coughing to clear the throat causes feeling of soreness, which shows an unusual degree of sensibility. General Mouth. (A very painful little ulcer in the back part of the mouth, on the right side, in the angle of the upper and lower jaw; very troublesome during mastication and otherwise). Dryness of the left half of the palate and roof of the mouth, in the evening (fourth day). Greasy feeling in the mouth, immediately. A solution of one-eighth caused in the mouth a violent pain, as from hot water; the teeth became so painful that for two days he could not masticate. One drop of the one-forty-eighth solution produced in the mouth contractions and prickling, and a disagreeable sour taste. Saliva. Salivation after five minutes, so that he is frequently obliged to spit, lasting ten minutes, followed by headache, with which the salivation decreased and after an hour disappear. Five minutes after taking, there commenced an increase of the flow of saliva, which caused him to spit constantly for about ten minutes, when he began to feel a pain in the head, a sensation as if the head was too heavy and would drop down from one side to the other, a pressing outward from within; the flow of saliva after this pain had established itself began to diminish, and in about an hour ceased entirely. Soon after taking the medicine there commenced the same salivation, with a dull heaviness and pain in the whole head. Much tenacious saliva, on waking at night, previous to the diarrhoea. He wakes up after midnight with a large quantity of viscid, tasteless saliva in the mouth, burning-pinching pain in the stomach, and with a sensation of distention from flatulency; after the passage of some wind the pain is increased, and he cannot pass any more; after a copious pappy evacuation of the bowels the pains seem to concentrate themselves in the region of the navel; after the evacuation the pain is diminished; on returning of his room, however, it returns again, and he has a second passage, accompanied with pain in the region of the navel; a third passage at 7 A.M. (third day); the same diarrhoea, at 4 A.M. (sixth day); a copious pappy evacuation, after rising (eighth day); several pappy evacuations (tenth day); two watery stools, immediately after rising in the morning (twelfth day); pappy loose passage, in the morning after rising (thirteenth and fourteenth days); none (fifteenth day); two (sixteenth day); one again (seventeenth day). (The mouth is not so full of mucus in the morning as usual; it is less around the teeth; in rinsing it there is less blood and viscid mucus than usual), (after several days). Taste. Sweetish taste in the throat at night (fourth day). Acid taste, and greasy feeling in the mouth, immediately. The taste is quite intolerable. Acrid offensive taste comes from the roots of the teeth. Acrid putrid taste from the root of the right upper incisor, on which there is fixed an artificial tooth; (the next morning). Taste in the mouth of what he has eaten; worse in the afternoon. A saltish taste in the mouth, in the morning on awakening, until breakfast (second day). Taste like ink; seems to proceed from a lower tooth on the left side; in the evening (second 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.