Head heavy, without real pain. Weight in the head (second day). Excessive heaviness of the head. Dulness of the head. Head dull, dizzy, soon. Head dull and confused.
Head dull and heavy, while standing (after half an hour), gradually disappearing. Great dulness of the head, a kind of mixture of dulness and dimness of mind, so that he frequently rubbed the forehead with the hand (first hours). Headache, etc. Violent headache. Excruciating headache. Violent headache, with vomiting. Violent headaches, with vomiting, frequently repeated, sometimes every two or three days.
Terrible cephalalgia; it seemed to the patient that if it continued he would lose his reason. Severe headache. with vertigo. and sensation of intoxication. After this he has a very severe and long-lasting headache; for fifteen days it has been almost constant. Severe and persistent headache, all over the head, so bad as to prevent sleep. Rather severe headache. The patient was attacked with violent headache, confusion of mind, during which he answered slowly, and seemed to have lost his memory; fell asleep in the evening; soon woke dizzy and with mental dulness, that gradually developed into a comatose condition, and was followed by death. Habitual headache. Frequent headache, especially on waking, in the morning. Frequent headache. Headache. Headache, for two months. Frequent attacks of cephalalgia and vertigo. Severe cephalalgia. Headache, with anxiety, extending to the forehead, with dim vision, contracted pupils. Violent shooting headache.
Slight headache anteriorly in the left parietal bone (after one hour). Headache and inappetency. Violent pressive headache, so that the patient could not hold the head up. Pressure beneath the skull, as from rush of blood to the head. Dull headache. Violent pain and heaviness of the head, with confusion of mind. Very severe pains in the head. Contractive pain in the head and cheek (from local application). Severe pain in the head, especially in the occipital region. Lacerating pain in the upper part of head, recurring at intervals, like those of the face, worse paroxysms, and somewhat ameliorated pressure. Pains in the cranial bones and in other flat bones. Rather severe left-sided hemicrania, extending to the same side of the face, with aggravation at night. Stitches here and there in the head, especially in the right ear, very violent in the afternoon and evening. Head symptoms relieved by hot-air baths.
Forehead. Sensation of heaviness in the forehead, soon vanishing, after the morning soup. Frontal headache. A very severe headache, especially in the frontal and parietal regions, comes on immediately after each attack of colic.
Much frontal headache. Frontal headache, worse by paroxysms, with feeling of dislocation. Frontal headache, with heaviness of the head. Headache in the forehead and temples, especially on the left side. Headache in forehead and temples. Dull headache in the forehead, with tearing in the nape of the neck. Violent pains in the forehead (first day). When asked where he feels pain, he says it is in the head, especially in the forehead. Shooting pains across the forehead, with pressing pain.
Tearing back and forth in the forehead (after two hours and a quarter). Headache; tearing in the forehead, with heat in the head and redness, without external heat, lasting a few minutes; in the afternoon. Sensation of tearing and contraction in the forehead (after six hours). Tearing in the middle of the forehead, slowly increasing, frequently intermitting (after two hours). Pressure in the forehead, rather externally (second evening). Sticking in the brain, in the forehead (after six hours). A small fine stitch in the left frontal eminence (after two hours). Frequent stitches in the right frontal eminence (after two hours and a half). Slight heavy pain in the forepart of the head. Temples. Hard throbbing of the temporal arteries. Temples throbbing. Temples felt compressed, as if in a vice, and she experienced cruel lancinating pains there. Constant constriction and twitchings in the temples (second day). Sensation of “clucking” in the left temporal region, extending to the ear. Tearing in the right temporal region (after two hours). Tearing sticking in the left temple (after two hours). Tearing in the right temple, then in the right ear (after one hour). Dull sticking pain in the right temporal region, that was also sore externally (first day). Twitching in the right temple (after one hour and a half). Parietals. Very violent pain in the left side of the head. Violent pains in left side of head.
Violent sticking and beating in the right side of the head, while walking and standing, in the forenoon. Sticking inward in the upper part of the right parietal bone. Sticking and tearing in the upper part of the right parietal bone (after five hours and a half). Occiput. Sensation of heaviness in the occiput, as if its weight were increased. Violent headache in the occiput, extending to the ears and temples, dull, pressive, commencing while asleep, so that the patient frequently rose from bed, walked about the room, holding his head with both hands, and as soon as the pain was somewhat relieved, lay down again to catch a short nap.
Headache partly in the occiput, at times extending as far forward as the forehead. Dull pains in the back of the head, extending from the spine upwards. Pressure in the occiput forward towards the forehead, with a feeling as if the eyes would close with heaviness, disappearing on standing up (after one hour). Violent stitches in the sinciput, lasting a long time, at 9 P.M. External Head. (The hair becomes remarkably fatty; formerly it has always been very dry), (curative action), (first day).
Eye
Objective. Eyes swollen, painful. Eyes wide open, fixed, and hard. Eyes wide open and fixed. Sometimes the eyes are half open, sometimes kept wide open, but generally they are closed; when opened, they are wild-looking or fixed, looking nowhere in particular. Generally a fixed look. Eyes fixed, and at times wild-looking. Eyes staring. Eye at times wild and shiny. Eyes glistening and protruding. Eyes brilliant, and projecting from their orbits (after one day). Left eye quite transparent; iris slightly contracted by artificial light. Eyes unnaturally prominent. Protruding eyes. Eyes hollow, and surrounded by blue rings. Eyes hollow and quite dim. Eyes sunken. Eyes hollow, and surrounded by blue rings. Blue color around eyes, the rest of the face having a decided dingy-yellow color.
Blue rings around the eyes, which are somewhat sunken. Hypopium.
Convulsive twitching of the muscles of the eyes and in the hands. Frightful distortion of the eyes. Twitching of both eyes (after two hours and three-quarters). Squinting.
Strabismus; one eye turned in toward the nose, and he could not roll it out; the external muscle of the eye was paralyzed; he could see distinctly as ever with either eye separately, but when he looked with both the object appeared double. Eyes dull. Eyes large and red. Inflammation of the eyes (fourth day). Rush of blood into the eye (sixth day). Livid color of the eyes, especially of the inner canthi. Fundus oculi black. Sclerotica yellow. Yellow color of the eyes, White of his eyes quite yellow. Eyes slightly jaundiced. Sclera dirty-bluish gray. Yellow tinge of sclerotica. Sclerotica somewhat jaundiced. Slight icteric color of the sclerotic. Eyes constantly shut; although the lids were kept somewhat apart by a stiffness of the muscles, they were to in the least paralyzed. Neuritis optici; papilla swollen (examination after death showed interstitial hyperplasia of connective tissue; the sheaths of the optic nerves were distended by fluid; the cerebrospinal fluid was greatly increased; the brain-substance anemic, and the gray portion yellowish). “Cirsophthalmia”; a varicose enlargement of the blood vessels of the cornea, extending like a thick network to the center, and causing complete obscuration of it.
Ophthalmoscopic examination between the paroxysms showed that the disk was prominent, its outline hazy, its color an opaque bluish-white, the sclerotic ring not visible, and the vessels diminished in calibre. Beyond anaemia of the brain- substance, and a marked increase of cerebrospinal fluid, there were no marked eye changes found in the brain; the sheaths of the optic nerves were distended; microscopic examination showed numerous capillary vessels throughout the swollen disk, and a moderate development of the nuclei of the connective tissue; there were none of the spindle-shaped swellings of the nerve-fibres found in the former case. Neuritis op.; with normal field, diminished acuteness of vision, with a central scotoma and persistent flickering. Subjective. Heaviness on moving the eyes and pain in the internal muscle, extending backward (first day). Sensation of pricking in the eyes. Eyes fatigued. Sticking pain in the left eye.
Burning in the right eye, as though tobacco were in it (after two hours). Brow and Orbit. Much hair falls from the eyebrows. Supraorbital headache (after one hour). Pressive pain above the eyes, on moving them, lasting several days.
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.