Head
Confusion and Vertigo. Causes great confusion of the head.
Vertigo. They experienced such violent vertigo and heaviness of head that they seemed deprived of memory. (* Several persons, after taking cold wine punch containing eight nutmegs. *) Vertigo, and fatal apoplexy. Pain and vertigo in the frontal region, with the strange feeling over the whole system (after four hours). He seemed like one intoxicated and reeling (first day). She is dizzy. So dizzy that they seemed intoxicated and half crazy. (* Two soldiers, the day after sleeping under a nutmeg tree. *) Dizzy, as if intoxicated and sleepy. He reels far to the left instead of walking upright (in the evening, while walking in the open air), (first day). She made an attempt to walk to an adjoining room, and upon standing erect became very dizzy, immediately followed by swimming in the head. She began to feel giddy and light in her head, about 1 o’clock; gradually increased in severity. Feeling faint, with lightness, giddiness, and emptiness of head, at 5.30 P.M. Lightness, giddiness, and emptiness, with a faint feeling, at 5.30 P.M. Injurious to the head; makes dizzy, sluggish, foolish, and causes other complaints. She seemed intoxicated the whole day; the head was heavy; at first it was painful on the left side, between the forehead and temple, which sensation afterwards extended towards the occiput (first day). In General. The head inclined to drop forward, the chin resting on the breast, and it could only be raised with much effort, which, when done, again would drop forward. Could not bear to have her head raised from the pillow, on account of the deathly sickness produced thereby. Rush of blood to the head, obscuring the sight. On rising from dinner (after four hours), felt the blood rush to my head, but the feeling was as if an electric current had passed from the crown of the head downwards; I made an effort and got mechanically downstairs; I then felt the same sensation which I suppose a person would experience who had become nearly insensible from extreme cold, and that, if I yielded myself to its influence, I could have slept away out of existence without pain; I felt this sensation twice; in a few minutes a cold shiver came upon me; from that time I felt every variety of heat and cold from their respective extremes; at every time the blood went from and returned to my head the current changed the sensation, sometimes feeling myself very hot, and the next very cold, but never the same sensation; I felt at one time such a pressure in the head that it appeared as if all the blood in the body had rushed to obtain possession of that region, and I thought I could hear it gushing in my ears; these symptoms became gradually weaker. Head throbbed. Head ached severely. Headache (after a few hours).
Headache the whole afternoon and evening (first day). The head became dull. Dulness of the head. (*From the preserved nutmegs.*) Heavy and pressive dulness of the head, with a sensation as if the left half of the head and face were somewhat swollen, and a prickling sensation as from an electric current, soon. Head seemed bulky, and rolled around almost uncontrollably, being obliged to bring to its support one or both hands, while sitting at a table. Head felt full and expanded, but without pain (first evening). A violent pressing forward in the head towards the sinciput; it seems as though it would be pressed out, and twice as thick as natural; at the same time he is dizzy, as after intoxication, and as if he would stagger (first day). The head seems compressed from the forehead and occiput, on waking from the midday nap (thirteenth day). (* From the flowers. *) Slight tingling in the head (after fifteen minutes). Felt especially bad about the head; while upright and walking could hold the head erect, but when sitting it would drop forward. With the confusion of mind he had a somewhat painful sensation in the upper half of the skull and brain, as though the parts were pressed together from above and the side, and spasmodically seized or constricted; together with inclination to sleep (first day). Affects the head very much. (* Effects of the flowers. *) Forehead. Forehead confused and dull, immediately. Muddled and fatigued in the forehead and temples (after half and hour). She is immediately seized with aching in the forehead. A kind of pressure in a small spot in the upper part of the right side of the forehead (second morning). Pain in the upper part of the left side of the forehead, in the organ of wit (after three minutes); this extended after two minutes over the left eye, where it became very severe; a gnawing pressing in the organ of locality and smell. (Pressive pain in the forehead, with stupefaction; at times it made the lids close, and he was obliged to yawn). Pain in a small spot in the forehead, about the left eye, pressing forward, in the morning (after two days). (* From the flowers *) Headache in the forehead, in the morning (second day). Intense frontal headache, with tense and painful sensation in scalp.
Pressive headache in a small spot above the left frontal eminence (after nine hours). Pressive-throbbing headache above the left eye, in the morning. Temples. Pain, especially in the temples; on shaking the head there is a feeling of looseness, as if the brain beat against the skull; the temples would not tolerate touch, and there was a feeling of heat in the head (after six hours).
Pressive and sticking pain in the left temple, of short duration, soon. A pain, rather sticking, in the right temple, frequently returns, and lasts for several days. Paroxysmal and transient stitches from within outward in the temples, immediately. A kind of hot pressure on the sides of the head, especially on the temples, like a pressure from within outward. Vertex. Headache on stooping; it presses from the vertex towards the forehead (after one hour). Warmth mounts towards the crown, with a sensation of constriction and pressing inward on the top of the head, immediately. Pain on the crown of the head, extending over a space about the size of a penny (after one hour and a half). From the vertex a drawing pain into the eyes (second morning). Single hard pressive pain on the top of the head, in the forenoon (tenth day). Pains in the left side of the sinciput and in the left upper arm, lasting several hours. Pain in the sinciput, extending towards the left eye, a kind of pressure, with a stupefying sensation, lasting two hours (first day). Parietals and Occiput.
Pains in various parts of the left side of the upper part of the head, in the forepart, above the forehead lasting an hour.
Headache on the right side, in the afternoon (first day).
Pressure in the right side of the head, in part above the ear, in part at the right angle of the occiput, as from a pressure inward upon the bone; very transient (first day). Pain in the left side of the occiput, towards the nape of the neck. Pressure in the head, between the vertex and occiput (after a quarter of an hour).
Eye.
Objective. Deep blue semicircles under the eyes, at 5.30 P.M.
Blue rings around the eyes (first day). Both eyes presented a bloodshot appearance, and were much swollen. Eyes bloodshot and much reddened, almost swollen shut; could scarcely see. The right infraorbital region becomes puffy (first day). (* From the flowers. *) The eyes, that seemed to him dry, appeared agglutinated so that he could scarcely open them, with constant inclination of the head to the left side, from sleepiness (first day). Eyes very dull and heavy-looking. Dull eyes (after two hours and a half). Eyes looked injected. Subjective. Sensation of fullness in the eyes, wherewith the pupils seemed contracted (second day). Eyes and lids felt swollen, bulged out (first evening). Sensation of dryness in the eyes; reading by artificial light was difficult; the eyes would close from sleep; the head and forehead were dull, in the evening (first day). He could not easily open and close the eyes, on account of a sensation of dryness and roughness (first day). Dryness of the eyes (first day). Lids. Upper eyelids were swollen and red around the border, and drooping; looked as though she had been weeping (first evening). The eyes were firmly and spasmodically closed under the influence of the spasm. Eyelids drooped, and could only open fully with use of hands. Inability to open her eyes; lids felt heavy and stiff. Tension and dryness in the lids (first day).
Tension about the right eye, especially in the lower lid, as though she could not open, it with pressure in the eyes; she was obliged to draw the eye together, whereby it seemed as though she could open it wider (after eighteen hours). Pressure in the lids, as from sleepiness. Lachrymal Apparatus. Remarkably burning in the eyes, with profuse lachrymation (after two hours). Pupil and Vision. Pupils greatly dilated and insensible (second day).
Momentary paroxysms of blindness, when she would grasp her head, saying, “How strange my head feels” (after seven hours). Looked bewildered, but vision at this time was good; later, however, objects looked as if enveloped in mist. Darkness and mist before my eyes (first evening). Enlargement of eyes, with intolerance of light, while objects seemed to float before the vision. Objects would vanish for an instant, at 2 P.M. Vision indistinct; everything looked red (first evening). Her hand to her looked red, and as if covered with red spots, and looked too large (first evening). Everything looked too large; my hand looked double its natural size (first evening). In a rather dark room, got out of bed and walked to the window in front of me; the window on my right, which is at right angles with the other, appeared much nearer to it, and diverging from it at an obtuse angle (this amounts to, objects appear too close together, too distant, and oblique), (first night).
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.