Pain in the occiput (after a quarter of an hour). Headache extending from the nape of the neck to the vertex. Pressure in the occiput (tenth day). Uninterrupted pressive pain the occiput, extending towards the nape of the neck to the vertex. Pressure in the occiput (tenth day). Uninterrupted pressive pain in the occiput, extending towards the nape of the neck. Headache as if bruised in the occiput, especially on stooping (after forty-eight hours). External Head. Sensation as if the scalp were drawn tight over the occiput (after forty-one hours). The head is painful, as if beaten.
Eye
Frequent inclination to involuntarily stare, fixing the eyes immovably upon an object. Violent boring deep in the right eye (first day). Pressure in the eyes. Pressure upon the eyes (soon). Pressure deep in the right eye (fifteenth day). Pressing pain deep in the right eye, soon. Feeling in the eyes as if they were pressed together by something heavy from above; he is obliged to exert himself in order to open them widely; in the open air (after seven and eight hours). Sticking in the eyes, as if they would lachrymate (immediately). Burning biting in the eyes, especially in the inner canthus. Brow and Orbit. Twitching in the muscles of the eyebrows and cheeks, with heat of the face. A sticking tension when touched on the left eyebrow, as if a pimple would form (after forty-six hours). Pain in the eyebrows drawing backward and forward, with spasmodic contraction of the muscles of the eyebrows (after ten hours). Violent pressure deep in the orbits (fifth day). Pressure in the orbits, as if the eyes would fall out. A momentary pain, as if a dull needle were thrust into the upper margin of the left orbit, rather towards the inner canthus; relieved by pressure with the fingers, but immediately returning when the pressure ceases, lasting a quarter of an hour (second day). A very violent pressing-tearing pain in a small indefinite spot on the outer side of the left orbit, as if between the eyeball and the wall of the orbit, and affecting the eyeball; lasting about five minutes and returning three times in the evening (third day). Lids. (Swollen red eyelids). He slumbers with half-open eyes, the pupils drawn upward (immediately). Twitching of the lids. Twitching of the upper lids. Biting in the margins of the lids (first day). Biting in the right eyelids (eighth day). The inner canthi were full of dry mucus in the morning (after nine hours). Painful pressure in the right inner canthus aggravated on closing the eyes (after nine hours). Soreness in the left canthus, in the morning on waking, with some moisture in it. Itching in the canthus (after three-quarters of an hour). Ball. Pressure in the right eyeball (tenth day). Acute pressive pain in a small spot on the left eyeball, between it and the external and upper portion of the orbit (seventh day). Sticking in the eyeball from above downward. Violent sticking in the eyeball and its coverings, as with fine points, in the morning after waking, on pressive the eyes together (after nine hours). Pupil. Dilated pupils, (during the first hours). Pupil dilated, with violent headache (fifth day). Pupils contracted (eighth day). Vision. Eye sensitive to light (eighth and ninth days). Eyes sensitive to light, with contracted pupils (fifteenth day). Sensitiveness to daylight; he does not wish to see objects about him and lies with closed eyes (during the fever). Photophobia (after half an hour. A sensation in the eyes as if everything was too clear and black (fifth day). Flickering before the eyes. Much flickering before the eyes (after half an hour). Floating speaks before the eyes (fifth day). Bright and dark spots before the eyes, soon. Black specks before the eyes (eighth day). Black specks and rings before the eyes (tenth day).
Ear
Drawing in both ears, as if the inner ears would burst, a kind of earache. Pressure in the ears. Burrowing boring-sticking in the right ear through the night, with sticking-tearing toothache; only the earache remained in the morning and during the day. Pressure in the fossae behind the lobules of the ears. Roaring and ringing in the ears.
Nose
Objective. Sneezing. Sneezing, in the morning, fasting (after twenty-six hours). Sneezing, immediately after rising in the morning from bed, whereby the upper lip cracks in the middle. Died sneezing. Sneezing, with nausea (eleventh day) Subjective. A very peculiar sensation of heat in the nose, especially in the nostrils, lasting several minutes (third day). Burning about the nostrils (tenth day). Burning under the nose (twentieth day). Itching burning in the left wing of the nose. Constriction in the nose, as though suffocation would follow. (* With S. 71.-HUGHES. *) Pressive pain in the root of the nose, Spasmodic tickling irritability in the nose, as if it would provoke sneezing (which it does not), with yawning (after one hour). Biting itching beneath the nose and on the upper lip, as in commencing coryza. Diminished sense of smell (twelfth day).
Face
Objective. Redness of the face. Yellow color of the face.
Paleness of the face during the heat of the head. Face pale and features distorted (after two hours). Pale, sunken face, loss of pulse, icy coldness, and cold sweat all over, so that a drop is on the end of every hair. External heat of the face, glowing of the cheeks, in the room (after six hours). Subjective. Heat and heaviness in the face and head (first day). Excessive heat in the face, after dinner, the face was burning red; this was noticed frequently during the proving, but especially to-day (sixth day). Cheeks. Transient dull pain in the right zygoma, as if in the bone (third forenoon). Pressure in the left zygoma, knees, elbows (tenth day). Crawling in the left cheek, soon. Lips. A vesicle in the center of the red of the upper lip, in the morning after waking. Ulceration of the corners of the lips, with itching. China A row of needle like stitches behind the ascending ramus of the lower jaw near the ear (after thirty hours).
Mouth
Teeth. Tearing in the third back teeth above and below, on biting them together, extending into the roots (immediately). Sticking-tearing toothache in the right upper and lower back teeth, in the evening after lying down in bed, which endures neither warmth nor cold, and torments him the whole night, so that he sleeps only a little; the lower back teeth seem longer, lasting during the day. Tongue. A sticking painful pimple on the tip of the tongue, when touched. Vesicles upon the tongue. Trembling of the tongue. (* Corrected by HUGHES. *) Tongue stiff, insensible. Tongue very dry; white, in the morning on rising from bed (after twenty-four hours). Stitches in the tongue (twentieth day). General Mouth. Sensation of dryness in the mouth. Dryness in the mouth and scraping in the throat, the whole day (after four hours). Distressing dryness of the palate and cutting-scraping pain in the palate, on moving the mouth to swallow, lasting several days. A scraping feeling on the posterior portion of the palate. Constant scraping sensation in the arch of the palate and fauces (first day). Saliva. Accumulation of saliva. Accumulation of watery saliva; he is frequently obliged to spit. Much watery saliva in the mouth. Constant accumulation of water in the mouth, which he is obliged to spit out (after one hour and three-quarters). Taste. Dry slimy taste and excessive thirst, for two hours. Sourish taste, with increased saliva (eleventh day). Bitter taste in the throat, but still more bitter on eating. All food has a bitter taste (fourth day). Has appetite, but on eating has no taste, and becomes suddenly nauseated, which ceases immediately after eating.
Throat
A flapping as of mucus in the throat, on every inspiration, but not on expiration, even if not forcible, which was like the opening and shutting of a valve (second day). Burning and dryness of the throat (first day). Sticking low down in the throat (first day). Sore throat; on swallowing, a pressure and feeling of soreness in the throat. Rawness of the throat, as after acrid liquor (after half an hour). Scraping in the throat. Scraping and sticking in the throat (twentieth day). Fauces. Scraping in the fauces from 10 to 1, and again from 10 to 11 P.M. (tenth day). Scraping and dryness in the fauces, lasting six hours (after one hour). External Throat. Pain in the cervical glands.
Stomach
Appetite. Great appetite; is constantly hungry, and everything relishes. Great appetite, with frequent tasteless eructations. Diminished appetite (fifth day). Loss of appetite (first day); (fifth day). Aversion to food. Aversion to fat meat (for more than a week), while he relishes bread and lean meat. Aversion to green vegetables and sauerkraut, with good appetite for bread and meat (for more than a week). Thirst.
Thirst. No thirst, the whole day. Eructation and Hiccough. Eructations (second day). Empty eructations, after breakfast. Empty eructations and qualmishness, yet he is unable to vomit. Many empty eructations (fifteenth day). Frequent tasteless dry eructations, during the first hour, followed by completely suppressed eructations. Eructations tasting of the drug (immediately). Gulping up of bitter fluid (twelfth day). Hiccough, (after two hours). Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea (first day). Nausea and headache, relieved after breakfast (fourth day). Nausea and inclination to vomit (second day). Sensation of nausea in the whole abdomen, with frequent empty eructations. Feeling of nausea in the stomach; it frequently seems as though he were hungry, but food disgusts him, though at the same time there is no unnatural taste in the mouth, nor of the food (after twenty-four hours). Qualmish nausea rising up from the stomach, with empty eructations. Qualmishness rising up from the pit of the stomach. Qualmishness and nausea, with constant inclination to vomit (fifth day). Inclination to vomit (after forty hours); (in evening), (second day). Great inclination to vomit, disturbing his sleep (fifth day). Vomiting, (soon), (fifth day). Copious vomiting, sixty times within two hours (soon after taking). Vomiting of food, followed by relief (fourth day). Vomited mucus. Vomiting of greenish-black substances, with colic; the attacks return after a remission of three-quarters of an hour, and last an hour, followed by apparent rest for two hours; afterwards a loud cry and then death (after thirty-eight hours). (* After death the limbs were relaxed and shrivelled, the blood in the veins fluid, moderate inflammation of the side of the pharynx and stomach, and also small intestines; brain very soft. *) Stomach. Uneasiness in the stomach, as if vomiting would occur (eighth day). Pains in the stomach and intestines, generally coming on two to six hours after the dose, generally accompanied by desire to vomit, which in no case amounted to real vomiting. Cardialgia. Sensation of hunger, in the forenoon, as if he fasted a long time. A distressing feeling of fasting, like ravenous hunger (after four hours). Agreeable warmth, extending from the pharynx to the stomach, as after spirituous drinks, soon. Heat in the stomach (fifteenth day). Heat in the stomach, with many eructations (after one hour). Burning, griping, and biting in the stomach, as from worms (after a quarter of an hour). Pressive burning pain in the stomach, soon. Acute burning in the stomach rising up through the pharynx. Violent burning in the stomach and fauces, which he compared to the burning caused by a streak of fire (after two hours). Distension of the pit of the stomach and upper abdominal region, which impedes respiration and is painful, as from an internal ulcer. Sensation in the stomach as if it were distended, with distending pains. Feeling of fullness in the stomach, with ravenous hunger (twelfth day). Unpleasant feeling of fullness in the stomach, with grumbling in the abdomen as from frogs. Griping in the stomach (after two hours and a half). Very acute griping and biting in the stomach, lasting the whole day (second day). Aching like a cramp in the pit of the stomach and just below it, obliging him to straighten up, by which it is relieved, with qualmishness; while walking the feeling entirely disappears, but immediately returns on sitting; afterwards eructations without relief (eighth day). Feeling as if the pit of the stomach were drawn inward. Pressure in the stomach (after one hour). Every step causes a painful pressure upon the pit of the stomach. Great oppression of the stomach (fifth day). Biting pain in the stomach, gnawing in it, with a kind of ravenous hunger, during a short walk, with great prostration of the lower limbs. Biting in the stomach, in the morning, fasting, then some pain in the abdomen, with rumbling, then only a slight soft stool, followed by dragging in the rectum (third day). Violent biting pain in the stomach, with feeling of heaviness and distension, in the evening (sixth day). Scraping raw sensation in the stomach (as if rubbed with woollen). Violent bruised pain near to and beneath the pit of the stomach and in the region of the pylorus, where it feels painful one very step while walking; the pain is aggravated by talking loud and on touching the place. Great sensitiveness, like a soreness, in the stomach, especially noticed when stepping and coughing. Pain in the stomach, as if it were completely ulcerated, after every meal; lasting seven days. The stomach is very painful to the shock of coughing.
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.