Pressure in the head (after half an hour); in half an hour this pressure was increased to giddiness and slight confusion (one case). Pressing sensation in the head (sixth day). Sensation of tension in the head. The whole head seemed in a vice; relieved by motion (after half an hour). Feeling of fullness in the head (eleventh day). Pressive pain over the whole head, with disinclination to work and great indifference (after 4 drops).
Violent pain in head, accompanied with giddiness. Excessive pain in the head (second day). Pain in the head, as if everything were torn to pieces, and sensation as if everything in the body were turned about, with general discomfort, that made him indignant. A slight pain over the whole head, a sensation as of a rush of blood, lasting about ten minutes (soon after 4 drops). Transient stitches, from within outward, in the head (after 18 drops).
Transient stitches in the head. Forehead. Warmth in the forehead, with pain in it. Head, especially the frontal region, very dull (second day). Dulness in the right side of the forehead, that was somewhat hot. Dulness in the forepart of the head, sometimes interrupted by sticking pain above the eyebrows, that after an hour extended over the whole head; this confused condition of the head became better towards noon, and in the afternoon only some dulness of the head remained, with at times sticking pain in the head; this sensation was accompanied by warmth and flushes of heat in the face (after 12 drops). Violent headache, especially in the right half of the forehead (after 2 drops). Sticking headache in the frontal region, alternating with drawing pains within the ears; at last the head became so heavy that he was obliged to lie down, in order to avoid sinking down (soon after 1 grain). Pressive stupefying headache in the right side of the forehead (after twenty minutes). Headache, like a pressure from within outward in the forehead. One-sided headache in the forehead, as if it would press outward, relieved by external pressure. A kind of pressure in the forehead, that seems to extent to the eyes and nose. Pressure in the right frontal eminence (after a few minutes). Slight pressure above the right eye and in the frontal eminence (after half an hour). A sensitive pressure above the right frontal eminence, with a sensation of heat, while reading; when this disappeared it gave place to a painful pinching sensation in the right temple, as if something pressed upon the part and then again relaxed. Pain, pressing from within outward, in the right frontal eminence, preventing writing; after twenty minutes this was felt in the occiput; removed by rubbing with the hand and pressure. Pressure and slight digging in the upper part of the forehead, with heaviness of the lids, that seem inclined to close, especially the left eye. Pressing-out pain in the left side of the forehead, recurring by paroxysms, extending over the whole right side, from the head to the tips of the toes. Pressive pain in both frontal eminences, extending down to the nose, and especially above affecting both nasal bones; after an hour this pain disappeared, but gave place to pressure in the forehead, and especially above the eyes, with general dulness of the head (after 2 drops).
Pressure in the forehead and over the eyes; it seemed as though the eyes would be pressed together, a feeling like that one experiences when the eyes are irresistibly closed by sleepiness (after 10 drops). Pressure in the forehead, lasting all day (after 2 drops). Pressure in the forehead (after 6 drops). Slight pressure in the right frontal region. Pressive pain in the left frontal eminence (after 2 drops). Pressive pain in the forehead.
Pressive pains in the forehead and occiput, with dulness in the head, a sensation of dizziness. Slight pressive pain in the region of the glabella, lasting only a few minutes (soon after 1 drop). Pressive pain in the frontal region, afterwards extending to the root of the nose and even to the tip of the nose, and changing to a kind of pinching (after 3 drops). Pressive pain in the forehead, soon. Pains across the forehead (second day). Pain in the forehead, that was warm to touch (fifth day). Pain, like needle stitches, in the forehead. Sticking-throbbing pains in the forehead. Violent sticking in the left frontal region, long continued, and extending deep into the brain (after two hours).
Tearing and beating in the forehead; sour eructations; sour vomiting; she was obliged to lie down when she perspired.
Intolerable boring pain in the forehead, at times disappearing, and again extending from the forehead to the vertex (eighth and ninth days). Stupefied sensation above the eyes. Certain sensations in the forehead, a kind of pressure and straining, the latter of which seemed to reach down to the eyes and nose, if the dose had been within 2 grains of solid purified Opium; if I had taken 2 or 3 grains these sensations would insensibly increase to a slight confusion of thought and giddiness, a heat and sensible pulsation of the arteries in the head; after 4 to 6 grains the pressure increased quite quickly, and passed on to pain. Temple.
Single twitchings in the temporal muscles. Head painful, especially in the temples, where there was a sensation as if they were pressed together (fourth night). Transient pressure in the right temple and in the right external canthus (after half an hour). Pressing-asunder pain in the temples, and especially in the forehead (after one hour and a half). Pressing pain in the temples (sixth day). Vertex. Dulness in the sinciput (after 6 drops). A very distressing persistent pain, sometimes between a sticking and a boring, in the coronal and sagittal sutures; in the latter, however, only in the middle of the vertex. Slight pressive headache in the left side of the vertex and of the forehead, in the evening (after 2 drops). Parietals. Slight pressive pain on the right side of the vertex, under the forehead, lasting only about twenty minutes (after 3 drops).
Sticking headache, extending from the forehead to the orbit, especially involving the right half of the head, with inclination to sleep (after 1 drop). Dulness in the left side of the head, extending to the right temple. Extremely painful headache in the occiput. Dull headache in the occiput, in the evening (seventh day). Occiput. A pressive-tensive pain n the occiput, at the point of the insertion of the trapezius muscle, extending across the whole breadth of the nape of the neck to the upper margin of the acromion process and the inner margins of both scapulae, as far as the tips, in general corresponding to the course of the muscular fibers; the pain was most noticed in the region of the fourth dorsal vertebra, whence it extended to the last dorsal vertebra; always aggravated by motion, during rest (on waking from the midday nap it had disappeared), (second day). Slight drawing-tearing pain in the occiput, from the scalp to the ears, in a place of the size of a quarter of a dollar, in the region of the fontanelle, gradually increasing in severity, lasting about eight minutes and suddenly disappearing, though it returned after about twenty minutes, and extended thence down the whole the occiput (after 4 drops). External Head. Tension in the skin of the forehead relieved by stroking with the hand. A tremulous drawing in different parts of the scalp, in the forehead, and vertex (after 10 drops). Hair very gray.
Eye.
Eyes very red; pupils dilated, with staring look (after forty- eight hours). Eyes rotated upward under brows (after four hours).
Eyes turned upward under the upper eyelids. Eyes prominent and motionless (second day). Eyes open, turned upward. Eyes wide open. Eyes open, and altogether distorted. (* Original revised by Hughes. *) Eyes distorted. Eyes fixed (after two hours). Eyes fixed; pupils contracted, and altogether unaffected by light (after one hour and three-quarters). Eyes dark and glassy.
Glassy, deep-sunken eyes. Eyes glistening. Eyes glistening, sparkling. Eyes sparkled. Staring look. He stares at the bystanders with watery eyes; does not know what he is looking at, and cannot recognize individuals. Eyes staring, with excessive lustre. Eyes wild and staring (after one hour). Eyes became full and sparkling. Eyes look heavy (after twenty minutes). Eyes glassy and lack lustre. Heavy, uneasy eyes (after 4 to 6 grains).
Eyes heavy and languid (second day). Dull, unimpressive eye. Eyes dim (after two hours). Eye lost its expression. Eyes sunk. Eyes sunk, and often glassy (after six hours). Eyes sealed up, or dropping rheum. Eyes only half closed; pupils dilated, insensible. Eyes half open, drawn forcibly upward and outward; pupils contracted, did not dilate when light was removed. Eyes partly closed; at times open, with the eyeballs turned upward.
Eyes closed, and the eyeballs turned upward and slightly outward (both of them); the pupils very much contracted; no reflex action of eyelids. While in school he was frequently obliged to forcibly open and close the eyes, with dryness in the eyes, as from dust and frequent pressure on both eyes. On going home it was noticed that he opened and closed the eyes more frequently than natural, and was asked the reason; on examining the eyes there was found great redness of the conjunctiva of the lids and of the eyeballs.
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.