Mind
EMOTIONAL. Half mad all night (after 1st dose). Troublesome and unreasonable mental impressions, easily strengthened into fixed ideas. She is very talkative and quarrelsome (after 12 days). Weeping from the slightest cause. Sadness. Inclined to sadness and weeping. Depression. Anxiety. Very easily frightened. She is frightened at every trifle (after 5 days). Very apprehensive and lachrymose, as if some evil were impending, in the evening, lasting two hours. He dreads the return of dawn, and the most trivial details of daily life seem insupportable to him. Very great irritability, and unwonted brashness of demeanor. Previously an affectionate father, his children instead of diverting his mind from care, now became simply burdensome to him; he had to force himself by a strong effort to attend to them, and his irritable temper was shown towards them especially; this was the more remarkable, as being quite opposed to his ordinary disposition, for he had always been a fine example of the “mens sana in corpore sano,”. Very passionate and spiteful temper. Very peevish and excited; everything goes wrong, and she is ready to quarrel with every one (after 17 days). Feelings easily disturbed, as if something was always happening to trouble her. Morbid sensitiveness; easily and frequently moved to tears. Stubborn obstinacy. INTELLECTUAL. Intellectual weakness, and paroxysms of dementia, accompanied by severe headache. Mind incoherent. Inability to think connectedly or to follow a train of reasoning. Loss of memory.
Head
VERTIGO. Vertigo. Vertigo, especially mornings or evenings or after meals. Vertigo with reeling. Vertigo, with confusion of the head. Vertigo and dullness, frequently with stomachache, and pains in the kidneys and bowels. Violent vertigo (after 1 hour ). Sensation of intoxication; he cannot keep his head from falling on his breast. GENERAL HEAD. Congestion of the head. Congestion to the head, with the symptoms threatening apoplexy, especially after meals. Cerebral excitement, evinced by mild intoxication and sometimes cerebral congestion. A degree of cerebral excitement has occasionally shown itself; symptoms of slight congestion which has given rise to a condition analogous to that of the intoxication produced by the alcoholic drinks Sense of weakness in the head, with drowsiness and inability to collect his thoughts. Dullness and heaviness of the head. Heaviness of the head (2nd day). Heaviness of the whole head after dinner, making her very fretful (after 6 days). The head is very heavy on stooping (after 13 days). Head very uncomfortable (after a few doses) Sensation of fullness in the brain, as if it were full of fluids, with frequent and copious discharge of mucus from the nose, which seems to relieve the head. Sensation as if a great quantity of water was forced into the brain with heaviness of the head and drowsiness without being able to sleep. Headache (after 1 hour ). Headache with inclination to vomit, and sensation as if a nail had been driven into the each temple. Headache, as if from metastasis, with delirium, weakness of mind, loss of the memory and paroxysms of fright and dementia. Constant headache. Severe headache. Intense headache.; (3 hours after 3rd dose ), (after 4th dose ); (1st and 3rd days ). Violent headache, with heaviness, at 5 A.M.; she does not know how she can lay her head on account of it; it disappears after rising (3rd day ). Pressure, inflation, and distention in the brain. Pressive and lancinating headache aggravated in the evening, by heat, wind, and cold air, but somewhat relieved by motion. Lancinating and pungent pains in the head, with sensation as if an insect was crawling under the scalp. A sharp painful stitch above the left frontal eminence. Throbbing pains in the head. Disposition to incline the head to the left side. He has to keep rocking his head from side to side in order to relieve the pains. FOREHEAD. Burning in the frontal region, eyes, nose, and mouth, with intolerably anxious burning in the throat, extending and very distressing behind the sternum to the ensiform cartilage (after 3 hours). Heaviness in the forehead and vertex, which are very sensitive to touch, in the evening, lasting the whole night (after 6 days). Heaviness, as from a weight, in the left side of the forehead, in the morning after rising (after 14 days). Feeling of heaviness in the forehead in the afternoon (17th day). Sense of weight and pain over the frontal sinuses (4th day). Dull stitches in the forehead on stooping. Tearing or jerking stitches above the left eye in the frontal sinus, lasting a long time. Violent tearing and sticking in the right side of the forehead, removed for a short time by pressure, in the evening. TEMPLES. Feeling of heaviness in the right temple (after 12 days). Extremely violent sticking and tearing in the left temple at 6 p. m. Painful throbbing in the left temple in the evening. VERTEX. Pain in the upper part of the head, as if it would be forced as under; that part of the head is hot to touch, though he is generally chilly and relieved by external warmth, frequently recurring for several days (after 28 days). Tension and sticking in the top of the head, and tearing in the left temple, extending in to the nape of the neck (after 13 days). Frequent pinching here and there in the upper part of the head. Some sharp stitches on the top of the head, in front of the vertex, in the evening (13th day). PARIETALS. Heaviness in both sides of the head in the morning (13th day). Painful screwing together in the head from both sides, Disappearing in the open air, in the morning (9th day). Pain as from screwing together in the upper part of the head, in a small spot gradually spreading from that place (18th day). Violent pain on the left side of head, like digging in the brain. Violent stitches extending from the left upper jaw to the parietal bone in th e morning in bed (8th day). Sharp stitches in the upper part of the bone (after 15 days). Sensation as from blows on the sides of the head. OCCIPUT. Pressive pain in the occiput towards in the evening (after 5 days ) Tension in the occiput, as if in the bones, with painful stitches (after 6 days). EXTERNAL HEAD. Great disposition of the hair to change its color and fall out. Small ulcers which seem to corrode the flesh beneath the right parietal protuberance and on the sinciput. Sensation of tension, followed by small fissures in the scalp, especially near the nape of the neck. Sensation as if scalp was forcibly scraped. The scalp is painful on scratching, as if ulcerated (after 11 days).
Eyes
OBJECTIVE. Fixed look. Forty eyes (2nd morning) Dark around the eyes. Dark circles under the eyes. Eyes swollen, red, and painful, with great lachrymation and photophobia. Swelling of the cornea, as from an internal tumor, which is pushing its way out. Sunken eyes, surrounded by blue rings. A condition of the eyes resembling catarrhal ophthalmia. Obscuration of the cornea, as if it was entirely covered by a cataract. Peculiar state of the eyes; pupils dilated, and both eyes were in a state of incessant motion; these motions strongly resembled those of a child who has congenital cataract, that is, constant oscillation; he found himself quite unable to fix them on any object. Purulent mucus in the canthi. Discharge of purulent mucus from the eyes in the evening. SUBJECTIVE Woke in the morning with an uneasy feeling of the left eye; the edge of the orbit at the external part tender on pressure; eyelids swollen and infiltrated on that side. The following morning, right side similarly affected; the tenderness was evidently seated in the periosteum of the orbit, and exclusively at the outer side. On the following day, a strange sensation was felt; it appeared like a pain extending in a direct line from the external border of one orbit to that of the other at the same spot; the sensation was very peculiar and difficult to describe; it was pain and something more. After an hour he awoke with violently increased pains in the eye, with profuse lachrymation and burning in the nose and throat. Burning of the eyes and redness of the lids, with lachrymation of the right eye. Burning in the eyes, in which purulent mucus is secreted, in the evening (4th day). Violent burning of both eyes in the afternoon (4th day). Pressure and burning in the eyes as if proceeding from the forehead. Cutting pain in the right external canthus in the evening (2nd day). Sensation as if something was sticking in the eyes. Biting in the right eye, disappearing on scratching but recurring in the evening (after 4 days). ORBIT Painful drawing in the right upper orbital margin, frequently repeated (2nd day). Some fine painful tearings beneath the left eye (2nd day). Gnawing on the right lower orbital margin (12th day). LIDS. Bright red spots on the lower eyelid, as from the stings of insects. Swelling of eyelids. Great swelling of the upper lids, especially in the tarsal regions, which were bluish-red (after 3 hours). Eyelids swollen, red, and ulcerated. Painless twitching of the lower lids, frequently recurring and impairing vision. Terrific burning in the lids, so that she cannot endure any light in the evening (1st day). Some fine stitches in the left lower lid (after 12 days). LACHRYMAL APPARATUS. Lachrymation (4th day). The right eye is watery the whole day (after 3 days). CONJUNCTIVA. Affections of the conjunctiva, fauces, and nasal cavities and larynx, together with the integuments. The conjunctiva may be affected alone, or else together with the mucous membrane of the nasal fossae or of the bronchia. Injection of the conjunctive (3 hours after 3rd dose). Intense injection of the conjunctive and lachrymation. The conjunctiva of one or both eyes is often seen to be affected; the attack commences by a more or less general and more or less rapid vascular injection, to which is speedily added a tumefaction of the mucous membrane, and an infiltration, generally well marked, of the submucous cellular tissue, which give rise to considerable chemosis of the eye and oedema of the eyelids. Conjunctiva sometimes influenced; both conjunctiva may become inflamed, characterized by great vascularity and chemosis; (it principally occurred during the first days after doses of 1 to 2 grammes). I have been twice disposed to attribute to it the occurrence of a slight conjunctivitis. BALL. Strabismus. Sensation as if the eyes would start from their sockets and fall out. PUPIL. Pupils much dilated. VISION Very weak sight. Cannot read without greatly fatiguing the eyes. Vision dim and foggy; she sees objects only indistinctly (after 4 and 14 days). Sight disturbed (4th day). The eyes were painfully sensitive to light, and the field of vision was obscured by disagreeable undulations. Found the patient with a shade on; she had caught cold in the eyes, and could not bear the light (2nd day); the Iodide was discontinued, and the eyes were well in twenty-four hours. All the eye symptoms are aggravated by cold air.
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.