Dimness and moisture of the eyes (fifth day). Eyes alternately moist and dim (fourth day). Eyes dry and weak, with burning, and a sensation as if dust were in them; this lasted during the evening and after going to bed, and only passed off during the night (after 2 drops). The eyes seem moist in the open air (sixth day). Stiffness of the eyes (tenth day). Heaviness of the eyes (tenth day). On awaking, eyes dull and heavy. Sensation of dryness in the right eye. Dryness of the eyes, that seem stiff, sometimes with much water in them (third day). Burning in the eyes, with a sensation as if sand or dust were in them (after 2 drops). Sensation of burning in the eyes and lachrymation.
Pressure in the eyes, causing a sensation as if he had lost the power to hold the lids open (ten minutes after 1/2 grain). Slight pressure upon the right eye, as from continued reading. Slight obscuration of the eyes (sixth day). Sensation as though the eyes were too large for their orbits. A sensation in the eyes as if they were swelled, and the sockets not large enough to contain them (after 2 or 3 grains). Lid. Swelling of the lower lids.
Eyelids swollen, dark-colored, half-closed. The lids hang down as if paralyzed. Eyelids drooping (second day). Eyelids tremulous and half open; pupils contracted. Lids trembling, only half covering the eyeballs. Eyelids closed (after one hour). Eyelids closed, and the child appeared in a state of slumber, and, if roused, exhibited a tendency to relapse into sleep (after eight hours). Lids closed; pupils contracted to a point; insensible to light; eyes supraverted and divergent (after two hours). Eyes closed; eyelids swollen; pupils normal in size, but insensible.
Eyelids closed; pupils upturned, strongly contracted, and little, if at all, influence by light (after one hour). The eyelids were closed; the patient’s efforts to raise them, producing only short, tremulous contractions, and, when held open by the fingers, the eyeballs were seen to be turned upwards and a little inwards, from which position she could move them only to a slight degree and for a short time (second day). Eyelids spasmodically closed; pupils contracted to the size of a pin’s point (after three hours). Lids tightly closed; eyes turned upward. The eyebrow droops; the lower eyelid becomes dark; the eye itself seems to sink and grow dim. Eyelids, lips, and wings of the nose livid. Heaviness of the upper lids, as if they were swollen.
Transient sticking in the left external can thus (after 1 drop).
Cramp like sensation in the right external canthus. Lachrymal Apparatus. Increased lachrymation (second day). Conjunctiva.
Redness of the conjunctive (second day). Redness of the conjunctiva of the ball and lids, with some swelling of the caruncula lachrymalis. Tunica conjunctiva replete with blood vessels (after two hours). Eyes glassy and conjunctiva straw- colored. Ocular conjunctiva and surface of cornea barely sensitive to touch (after six hours). Conjunctiva and cornea quite insensible to touch (after three hours). Ball. Eyeballs and eyelids immovable. Eyeballs turned upward; pupils contracted.
Eyeballs partially turned upward (after half an hour). Eyeballs turned up beneath the lids and fixed; pupils contracted and immovable. The eyeballs appeared through their coverings rather prominent; the pupils were fixed and contracted to the size of a pin’s head (after two hours and a half). The eyeballs were forced from within outward (ten minutes after 1 grain). Pressive sensation in the eyeball, relieved by rubbing and motion. Pupil.
Pupils greatly dilated; (after six hours and a half). Dilatation of the pupils (after five or six hours). Pupils easy to dilate.
Pupils dilated (first hours). Pupils of both eyes considerably dilated (after six hours). Dilated pupils and obscured vision (after a quarter of an hour); (after thirty minutes); (after four hours). Pupils somewhat dilated (half an hour after 1 grain).
Pupils neither expanded nor dilated, but nearly natural as to size, yet did not respond to the influence of light. A slight dilatation of the pupils. Pupils contracted; (after 4 to 6 grains); (after four hours), etc. Pupils contracted; eyes fixed and totally insensible (after three hours and a half). Pupils inactive and contracted; no reflex action could be roused in the eyes or eyelids on admission into hospital; at the time of death the pupils became very dilated. Pupils extremely contracted, and did not dilate either in the dark nor when I rubbed his eyes with my finger (one case). Pupils extremely contracted; (after four hours). Pupils firmly contracted to smallest point; surface of cornea and conjunctiva quite insensible to touch (after seven hours). Pupils became contracted to a point that could scarcely be seen; at times the patient could scarcely distinguish objects.
Pupils contracted to a point (after four hours); (after two hours), etc. Great myosis, the pupils not larger than a pin’s head (after twenty-six hours and a half), (after eight hours).
Pupils contracted to the size of a pin’s head, and immovable to the impressions of light; eyes everted, fixed, and strongly congested; eyelids closed (after one hour and a half). Pupils turned upwards and outwards; contracted to the size of pin’s head. Pupils contracted to about half a line. Pupils contracted and insensible to light (after one hour), (after two hours), (after seven hours). Pupils contracted, fixed (second day).
Pupils excessively contracted, etc. Pupils contracted; divergent squint. Eyelids half closed; pupils quite contracted (after two hours and a half). Irides immovable; pupils about 1/32 inch in diameter, and cornea insensible (after one hour and a half).
Pupils very small, but immovable. Pupils small; conjunctiva and cornea slightly sensitive to touch (after two hours and a half).
Pupils slightly contracted (after two hours); firmly contracted (after three hours and a half). Pupils slightly contracted (after three hours); firmly contracted (after fourteen hours). Slight contraction of the pupils; afterwards firm contraction. Pupils contracted, but not completely (after eight hours and a half).
Pupils slightly contracted (after eleven, and twenty hours).
Oscillation of the pupils. Pupils insensible to light; (after two hours). Vision. ( was able to read and write in the evening without his glasses, which usually he could not do) (sixth day).
Dimness of sight at times, which soon leaves her, and returns again after a short time (after three days). Dimness of vision; he seems to see through a veil. Dimness of vision while reading in the forenoon (first day). Dimness of vision, as from a veil before the eyes, lasting a quarter of an hour (after two hours and a half). Dimness of vision (after 4 to 6 grains), (one case), (second day). Vision obscured, as by a fog. Obscuration of vision, (one hour after 15 drops), (one hour after 2 grains).
Obscuration of vision, so that while writing the letters seem to swim together. Vision indistinct. Unable to see (second day).
Everything I looked at seemed increased in volume. All objects seem smaller than usual (after daily doses of 5 drops). Says she cannot see distinctly, and “sometimes there are two candles where there should be one” (second day). Said there was a mist before her eyes and she could not see (after a quarter of an hour).
Haziness of the eyes. Flickering before the eyes. It became dark before the eyes, with disappearance of though, heat of the head, etc. (after 4 drops). While completely conscious he complained that vision became dark, that he was blind (after four hours). (* Just before death.-HUGHES. *) It seems black before the eyes, with vertigo. He thought that flashes of fire came out of his eyes. (* Original revised by Hughes. *).
Ear.
Pressure toward the external meatus auditorius. Jerking within the ears, first in the left, then in the right. Throbbing in both ears. Hearing. Hearing more acute than usual (after half an hour). It was very remarkably that, when the torpor and comatose of any heaviness were at such a height, he appeared to have almost no command of any of his muscles, nor the smallest perception of what was passing around him; his hearing was nevertheless remarkably acute, and he repeatedly requested that we would not speak louder than usual, saying that it disturbed him exceedingly to hear the loud talking. Hearing somewhat indistinct, as in slight intoxication. Difficulty so deficient left ear, lasting four minutes (after three hours). Hearing so deficient that she could hardly detect the voice of any one who spoke; yet her own voice sounded most disagreeably loud to her.
Difficulty of hearing. The hearing remained weaker for some time after the proving. Violent roaring in the ears (sixth day). Great roaring in the ears, in the evening while sitting still. Roaring in the ears. Some roaring in the ears. Dull roaring in the ears after eating (after four hours). Ringing in the ears (eleventh day). Disagreeable humming in the ears, when talking or whistling. Humming in the ears (very soon).
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.