A kind of vertigo, as though all the blood rushed to the head, on turning over, in the evening, in bed. Vertigo, on stooping, with chilliness and nausea, from time to time. Vertigo, on suddenly turning and raising the head. Vertigo, with slight headache.
Vertigo; (second morning); (sixteenth day). etc. Vertigo; he was obliged to lie down for several days, because as soon as he made any effort to rise the vertigo returned. Vertigo in the head and roaring in the ears, on rising (tenth day). Vertigo, with some headache. Vertigo, with trembling. Vertigo, with exhaustion (third day). Vertigo, with blackness before the eyes. Vertigo, after eating (after three hours). Vertigo, on rising from dinner (after nine days). Painful dizziness, eight mornings in succession. Very dizzy and near fainting, after a second stool.
Dizziness, with violent headache, shivering, and chill, without thirst, alternating heat in the head shivering, and discomfort over the whole body (after thirty-six hours). Dizzy attack; if she turned herself once she did not know where she was, the same after stooping, in the forenoon. Dizziness in the head, on moving. Dizziness, in the morning after waking, so great that she head, on moving. Dizziness, in the evening, in bed.
Dizziness, with feeling of lightness in the head following it, increased in the afternoon. Slight dizziness, with sensation as if the muscles, in walking, would lose their equilibrium (after first dose, second day). Feeling of lightness in the head.
General Head. Very heavy dull feeling in the head, after eating.
Great dulness of the head and vertigo, obliging him to lie down.
Great dulness of the head, worse at noon, relieved by the repeated washing of the face with very cold water. Great dulness of the head, with some symptoms of coryza, without real pain or heat, relieved by washing with cold water, by cold air, or motion, worse on sitting and also on stooping. dulness of the head, especially in the region of the frontal sinuses, in the forenoon; after dinner there was real stupefaction, with vertigo, so that she was obliged to lie down, associated with great feebleness of the whole body, with some cramps in the hollows of the knees. dulness of the head and general exhaustion, so that she falls asleep while reading, during the menses. dulness of the head, after eating. Stupid dulness of the head, worse in the fore and upper part of the head. General slight dulness of the head.
Stupid feeling in the head. Head felt dull and heavy (after two days). dulness of the head; (fifth day); (fourth day). dulness of the head, with toothache. dulness of the head, better in the open air. Great heaviness in the head (after eighteen days).
Heaviness, powerlessness, and confusion of the head, in the morning. Heaviness of the head; he saw as through a veil.
Heaviness of the head, with some vertigo. Heaviness and dizziness of the head, better in open air. Heaviness of the head (first day). Heaviness and warmth of the head. Heaviness and dulness of the head, with a sensation as if she had received a blow upon it.
Great weakness of the head, so that she could not endure any sound of the piano. Weakness of the head; when thinking about it the head aches. Weakness of the head; from laughing, stepping hard, or on stretching out the limbs, a throbbing and beating in the head, especially violent after sitting a long time. Feeling of fulness in the head. Fulness and confusion in the head. Fulness in the brain, not as if it were filled with blood, and without preventing thought. Fulness of the head, with stoppage of the ears, without diminished hearing, except on swallowing. Rush of blood to the head, with burning heat redness of the face, while sitting. Rush of blood to the head, that could not be endured.
Blood rushes to the head easily, towards evening. Rush of blood to the head. Violent dull headache, with nausea, eructations, and accumulation of water in mouth. Dull headache, as from studying too much, with some dizziness, that after thinking was not noticed, and apparently disappeared entirely. Dull headache, with a feeling as if he had not slept enough. Dull headache. Heat of the head, with dull headache, in the morning. Dull headache, as after night watching. Dull headache and had humor, in the morning, on waking, and after rising (second day). Dull pain in the whole head with dizziness, so that he could not hold up the head well, and at times could not see well; on turning the head the pain was aggravated, and extended down into the face, somewhat better on leaning it forward, without heat, with accumulation of water in the mouth and general prostration and sickly look; these symptoms continued to increase for three or four days, only somewhat relieved by sleep, until there appeared, in the middle of the forehead, an irregular circle, about as large as a half dollar, with a border half an inch broad, consisting of turgid skin of the forehead, which was warmer than the surrounding part; the redness disappeared on pressure, but immediately returned (eczema erythematosum); in the middle of the circle there was an irregular round spot of normal skin; the diseased part of the skin was painless, but cold water and cold air caused smarting. Dull pain in the whole head, with some pressure in the eyes and sleepiness, while sitting still, in the morning (fourth day). Dull pain, with heaviness of the head and perspiration. Headache, consisting of a sensation of heaviness, extending to the eyeballs, as if the head were drawn forward by a weight, with feeling of fulness and heaviness in the face, as if too full of blood, like that after studying too intensely; when the headache was the worst it was accompanied by drawing in the left side of the occiput; the headache was only transiently relieved by smelling of spirits of wine, and by shaking the head, aggravated by mental work. Pressive one-sided headache, that disappears on walking in the open air (immediately). Pressive headache here and there, changing to a pain, as if the surface of the brain were beaten and bruised. Pressive headache, or a confusion, with jerking or tearing in the head, every morning on waking, aggravated by motion. Internal pressive headache, mostly on the right side, as if the head were too heavy, with some dulness of the head, and tension in both cheeks, as from too much blood. Pressive and pinching headache. Pressive headache, deep in the right side of the forehead and parietal bone, with ill-humor, in the evening (first day). Pressive headache, extending as far as the occiput, with a sensation of looseness in the brain, on stooping and rising again. Pressure in various places in the head, as if there were pimples under the skin. Pressure shoots back and forth in the brain. Sensation in the head as though heavily pressed upon. Violent headache, on riding (fifth day).
Violent headache, in the morning, lasting till noon. Violent headache, from stooping (in the open air), (after eleven days).
Headache while reflecting, in the evening. Headache, etc. Violent headache; (third day); (fourth day). Headache, that began immediately after lying down in bed, two evenings in succession.
Headache at night, followed nausea in the evening. Headache, with nausea, while lying, and as it disappeared a kind of vertigo.
Headache with the fever (second day); headache (fourth day); with fever, in the afternoon (sixth day). Headache above the left eye, with floating spots before the vision. Head hot; he complained chiefly of headache (first day); headache less severe (second day). Headache returned on the fourth day, with great prostration. Constant aching in the head. Heaviness increases, in the afternoon. Headache when beginning to walk, and renewed by any, though slight, motion. Headache, from the slightest vexation. Mental application caused headache. Headache every day, after dinner. Headache, with dizziness, all day (third day). The headache, except some confusion and stoppage of the ears, disappears almost entirely after dinner, while walking in the open air, but soon returns in a warm room. A little headache; lancinating darts through the forehead, at intervals (third day).
Drawing headache, in the morning, changing towards noon to a kind of vertigo, with flickering before the eyes, disappearing after eating, but returning about 2 o’clock, with excited circulation, lively mood, and mental excitement; in the evening following, unusual weariness and exhaustion, with incapacity for any work.
Constrictive headache, every other day. Constant and intense pain in the head (second day). Pain in the head, with some vertigo.
Pain, as if the head would burst, so violent that she wept aloud, from 6 A.M. till after lying down, in the evening. Violent pains in head; (sixth day). Pain; disturbance in the head. Bruised pain, or a beaten sensation, in the brain, from afternoon till falling asleep, in the evening, disappearing during sleep.
Painful stupefaction in the head, in the morning, on waking, only disappearing some time after rising. Violent numb and dizzy sensation, with pressive pain in the head, disinclination and inability to work, especially to perform mental labor, and sleepiness; almost entirely relieved after lying quietly and partly sleeping, returning only after rising and moving about, with a feeling as if there were no firmness in the head, and with sore pain in various places in the head when touched, for several days. Complains that her head swims (after three days and a half). Digging and burrowing in the head, from time to time, with dulness the whole day, extending more towards the right side and towards the nose, during rest and motion, and only relieved in the cool air. Anxiety and heat in the head, with red, hot hands, frequently recurring, and apparently relieved while standing.
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.