(third day). Arose at 8 A.M. with a heavy aching head, better after rising (second day). Heavy headache and pain in eyes, with much heat in head and face, at 2 P.M. (tenth day). Tensive headache; brain and scalp feel tight (second day). Headache, with fullness and a sense of faintness (sixth day). Congestive headache, all the forenoon (twelfth day). Headache, of a burning aching character, at 7 P.M. (eighth day). Headache, in the morning, with epistaxis, left side (sixth day). Headache, in the evening (fifth day); in the morning (sixth day). Walking increases the headache. Troubled with headache for some weeks after, which was greatly relieved during mental application, and aggravated when walking in the open air. During the afternoon some headache, increasing towards evening; pain subsided by 10 P.M.; head feels strange and confused (eighth day). More or less headache or heavy feeling about the head, during the day (second day). Fullness of head, almost to faint feelings, at times. Dull pressure encircling the head, with the sleepiness (third day).
Constricted feeling in the head, as if some tight bandage were tied around it (after two hours and a half). After taking the medicine, in the morning, fasting, there was a feeling of constriction around the entire top of the head, as if a tight cap were being pressed down as far as the temples; at the same time there was a severe pressure along the sagittal suture, as if from fullness in the longitudinal sinus, and dull aching in each temple; similar effects appeared each night and morning, about fifteen minutes after taking the medicine. A stimulus, as he called it, in the neck, in occiput, going through the whole head until it reached the eyes; this lasted an afternoon and evening.
Constant desire to move the head from side to side (ninth day). Increase of head symptoms, with little perspiration (after sixty- five minutes). Forehead. Severe passing pain in the forehead, as through something hard was bound tightly on it, accompanied by dizziness while walking; this lasted all the forenoon, gradually subsiding (fourth day). Deep seated pain in the forehead, with desire to rub it (third day). Heavy pain in frontal region, worse from motion (after one hour and a half). Darting and transient pains in frontal and temporal regions (after fifteen minutes); worse from motion (after half an hour). Intolerable pain over both orbits (sixth day). Sharp pain in the supraorbital region, running off towards the nose (third day). A burning and aching pain in forehead, at 9 A.M., continuing during the day, and until retiring, at night (third day). An aching burning pain in forehead, at 1 P.M.; frontal headache on eating, exercise, or mental exertion, at 4 P.M. (eighth day). Pain in the right frontal region (sixth day). Pain in the head, over the right eyebrow, extending to the temple (fourth day). Pain over right eye, all the evening. At 3 P.M., have had, since noon, a persistent, dull, aching pain, not very severe, and situated over left eye; the pain was from motion or pressure (second day). Pain in head, over the right eye, dull and watery (after three hours and three-quarters, second day). Woke up with severe headache in forehead (second day); headache light at 12 M. (third day). This headache was very severe, and never before experienced; could not put my mind on anything, could not recollect anything; a mental exhaustion, not confusion. Severe and sudden headache, over right eye, with pulsation felt in occiput, at 2 P.M. (fifteenth day).
Severe headache, over the right eye, lasting two days (after ten days). Violent frontal headache, with slight chills and fever, at 8 P.M. (third day); hot and dry skin, at 10 A.M., at times extending to the afternoon (fourth day). Headache in left frontal region, with sensation of heat in the abdomen, and slight nausea, at 10.15 A.M.; headache continues, but dull and heavy, at 11.15 A.M.; headache has become general over the whole head, with qualmishness and slight perspiration over the body, at 4 P.M.; headache continues, with qualmishness, at 10 P.M. (second day).
Headache less, in the morning; has continued nearly all day, with lame bruised feeling in the region of kidneys (third day). Awoke with headache in left frontal region, which afterwards extends all over the head; the pain is of a dull heavy character; at 1 P.M. the headache still continues, but seems to increase in the left frontal region; at 10 P.M., still continues; can hardly sit up (second day). The headache is the worse I ever had; cannot study for the pain in my head; not so tormenting, at 10 P.M.
(third day). Headache, dull, heavy; began in left frontal eminence; extended deep into brain; headache, when walking in the open air, lying down; would not study (fourth day). Heavy, dull, and oppressive frontal headache, with peculiar inability to express my thoughts clearly and intelligently, at 10 A.M.
(twelfth day). Heavy headache over left eye and extending over whole forehead, but most severe over left eye, as from a blow, at 1 P.M. (second day). Dull frontal headache, in the evening (second day). Dull frontal headache, at 2 P.M. (second day). Dull heavy headache in forehead, before rising. Woke next morning with a dull frontal headache; by noon the headache involved the whole cerebrum; great fullness of the blood vessels of the brain.
Wakened in the morning with dull, heavy, frontal headache, over the eyes, which passed off on rising (third day). Some frontal headache (ninth day). Fullness in forehead and tendency to ache, with the sense fatigue (after five hours); a dull heavy ache, more in right side (after thirteen hours). Constant weight over the eyes, at 5 P.M. (fifth day); at 8 P.M. (eighth day); at 8 P.M. (second day). Feeling of constriction around the forehead and temples, changing into oppressive pain over the left orbit, and extending to the forehead and temples; very troublesome in reading (after half an hour). Sensation as of a rush of blood to the frontal and temporal regions (after fifteen minutes).
Temples. Pressure in temples (seventeenth day). Pain through the temples, as from pressure of blood to the head, with throbbing of the arteries on the side of the neck, at 4 P.M. (twelfth day).
Occasionally there was severe, sharp, darting pain in the right malar bone, and in the ramus of the jaw on the right side (fourth day). Darting pains in the temporal regions, worse from motion (after eight hours). Numbness of the temples, and crawling sensation over the head, at 4 P.M. (sixteenth day). Severe pain in both mastoid processes (after ten minutes). Pain in both temples; in right temple, shooting pain down to second bicuspid tooth (two hours after first dose, sixth day). Flashes of pain in the right temporal region (second day). Dull pain in both temples, with pressing outwards in the frontal region (second day). In church, had a dull aching in temporal and frontal regions, at 11 A.M.; in the evening, the sound of the organ caused the return of headache; slight headache until retiring, worse in frontal and temporal region (second day). Some headache, only more intense, with such sleepiness that the effort to keep awake produced nausea, at 1 P.M.; this headache did not abate until about 6 P.M. (fourth day). Headache still occasionally but very slight, and sleepiness, as before (fifth day). Worse in a warm room, especially after being on open air (sixth day). Skin of forehead and nose felt tense, making it difficult to close the eyes; this feeling continued for some fifteen or twenty minutes, in church, then a remission, then commenced again (second day).
Headache in the temples (ninth day). Headache in the right temple, at first a heavy dull pain; afterwards it became pulsative, and occasionally darting and quivering, like the motions of electric fluid passing from cloud of cloud, or from the cloud to the earth (tenth day). Throbbing of temporal and carotid arteries (second day). Vertex. Expansive sensation in top of the head (after one hour). A pressing, from within outwards, in vertex and temples, which continued for five hours after taking the last dose. Intense painful pressure in vertex and both temples; the pressure in vertex extending over to occiput; pain so severe as to oblige lying down (sixth day). Pressure (bearing down) on top of head (after seven hours and a half, second day).
Dull weight along the vertex, mostly on the left lobe of the brain (third day). Parietals. Spasms of pain, at intervals of five and a ten minutes, sharp and lancinating, in region of right parietal eminence, lasting one or two minutes, leaving a sore bruised feeling; headache relieved, in evening, by close attention to a metaphysico-theological sermon, renewed by coming out into open air (second day). Shooting pains through the right side of the head, extending down into the back part of the neck, worse when rising up or when walking, at 11 A.M. (eighth day).
Sharp pains, first in left side of the head, then in the right side. An indefinable pain in the right side of the head, with a feeling as if it would increase; nevertheless it did not, but continued the same throughout the day (third day). On awakening, pain on right side of head and right side of neck, with the feeling as though I had slept too sound; feels sore and stiff, similar to what is called a stiff neck; cannot bear my pillow high; feel as though my head would be easier on a single pillow.
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.