Occiput. The hat causes acute pain in the occipital protuberances.(280) Pressive headache in the occiput, as if in the bone (second day). Pressive pain in the occiput, relieved by warm wrapping of the head. Pressure in the occiput, soon followed by stitches in the fore-head, with chilliness in the nape of the neck and back. Pressure in both sides of the occiput. Pressure in the occiput and nape of the neck, in the morning. Stitches in the occiput. Itching pain in the right side of the occiput.
External Head. The hair falls out freely on combing. A dry tetter on the head, which this prover had had for five years, became surrounded by a red areola, and after a while the redness disappeared and the tetter had disappeared, and the former rough skin became smooth. Itching pimples on the head and nape of the neck. (290) Itching pimples on the scalp. Sensation as if the hair were bristling during dinner. The hair feels as if it would fall out. The head was sore to touch externally. Extreme tenderness of the scalp, a feeling as if she had been lifted off the ground by her hair. She cannot brush her hair, the scalp is so tender. Creeping over the scalp, as if the hair were bristling, though without chilliness. Pricking and itching of scalp. Much itching on the scalp. The itching spots on the head are painful, as if sore, after scratching.(300) Violent itching on the left side of the head (after fourteen days). Itching on the occiput.
Eye
Objective. Redness at first around the eyes, then also of the white of the eyes, with inflammation and lachrymation. Redness of the whites of the eyes, with pressive pain. Ulcer on the left eye. Eyes weak (seventeenth day ). Subjective. Feeling as if both her eyes were dragged back into the head with strings. Pain as if the eyes were being drawn out (fourth day). Painful cramp in both eyes, closing them so tightly that she can with great difficulty open them. The eyes are painful, as if too dry and full of sand, in the morning,.(310) Sensation as if the left eye were full of water. Tension in the eyes and forehead, with weakness of the body. Tension in the eyes (second day). Pressure in the eyes every afternoon at 4 o’clock. Piercing stinging pain in the left eye (twenty-fifth day). Sudden piercing pain in the left eye (twenty-eighth day). Tearing and burning in the eyes on pressing them together. Twittering sensation in the right eye (thirty-third day). Heat in the eyes. Smarting of the eyes.
Smarting and pricking of left eye. Itching of the sore eye, immediately. Itching of the right eye, in the evening. Brow and Orbit. Itching in the eyebrows. Tensive pain above the eyes.
Pressive pain over left eye, about the size of a sixpence.
Pressure and smarting in the orbits. Great pressure and sensation of tightness over the eyes, as if something heavy were lying there, before the menses. Transient griping pain just beneath the right eye, in the evening in bed. Tearing and sticking above the eyes, so that he was obliged to press the lids together (tenth day). Lids.(320) Agglutination of eyes at night, with smarting of the lids. Both eyes are agglutinated with mucus in the morning (second day). Agglutination of the eyes in the morning.
Much hardened mucus in the inner canthi. (After the erysipelatous swelling of the feet had disappeared, there set in an eye trouble, consisting of swelling of the upper and lower lid, especially violent in the morning, with burning and stinging pain, especially in the morning and evening, with redness of the lids, better in the middle of the day; in the evening great photophobia, so that the candlelight could not be endured; reading by the light was difficult, as though there were a mist about the light and a red and green halo; thick, slimy discharge, with agglutination of the lids). Twitching of the eyelids (after four, and ten hours). Heaviness of the eyelids, as if pressed upon. The eyelids are very heavy, with sleepiness (Twelfth day).
Great heaviness of the eyelids (sixteenth day). Pressure and pressing in the left canthus.(340) Pressure in the upper lid, with violent stitches, as from a splinter, and vanishing of visual power (after four hours). Pressure in the eyelids (after eight days). Tearing in the margins of both lids. Biting in the canthi, in the morning, even when not lying down. Soreness and smarting of the eyelids; she cannot close them. Burning itching of the eyelids. Burning biting in the right lower lid, in the morning. Itching of the upper lid. Lachrymal Apparatus. Swelling in the region of the right lachrymal gland and lachrymal sac (after six days). Eyes and nose water,.(350) Lachrymation in the outer canthi. Lachrymation and a kind of dimness of the eyes.
Vision. Vision indistinct, misty, with flickering before the eyes (twelfth day). Dimness of vision. Dimness of vision all day (fifth day). She cannot open the eyes in the morning on account of painful photophobia. Photophobia; the daylight blinds.
Paroxysms of photophobia alternating with inflammation of the white of the eye and lachrymation (after ten days). Muscae volitantes before the eyes. Blinding of the eyes by daylight, so that for moments he can see nothing, in paroxysms,.(360) Slight fluttering before the eyes. At first she lost the clearness of sight only momentarily. Misty visions; she cannot see anything clear; this was constantly so for two days. She could neither read nor write; everything ran together. The eyes seemed veiled (second day). Everything seems pale before the eyes during the menses. Seems befogged after eating; the eyes seem blinded; cannot raise them (after ten days). A persistent speck before the right eye. It became black before the eyes after the headache.
Ear
Swelling of the outer ear, with thin discharge from the inner ear with hissing affecting the hearing.(370) Margins of the ears inflamed and moist. Thin discharge from the left ear (after five days). Large amounts of thin earwax (after nine days). Fine tearing beneath and behind the right ear, at 1 P.M. (fifth day).
Jerking cutting in the bone behind the ear. Tearing behind the right ear. Pricking, aching, and itching in the ears, left chiefly. Cramp like drawing in the right ear (after twenty-four hours). Pain in the right ear (first day). Painful pressure in the meatus auditorius,.(380) Pressive pain in the left ear on blowing the nose. Drawing pain in the meatus auditorius, like otalgia. Drawing pain in the right ear and down the neck. Tearing in and on the ear. Jerking pain in the left ear. Shooting pain in left ear, with a feeling as if humor was flowing from it.
Stitches and tearing in the right ear. Stitches in the left ear; (thirty-third days). Stitches in the ears (eighth day). Sticking pain from the left ear to the left temple (fifteenth day).
Itching in the ear, especially on swallowing. Itching in both ears. Throbbing in the ear shakes the eyes, so that objects move up and down. Throbbing in the ear upon which he lies at night.
Throbbing in the right ear. The ears seem stopped (after eight days). Hearing. Painful sensitiveness of the ear to loud sounds.
Oversensitiveness to noise, even to starting up. The hearing is very sensitive. Hearing in both ears stopped for a short time, in the afternoon (second day),. Difficulty of hearing, suddenly coming and going (second day). Difficulty of hearing, increased after eating. Difficult hearing of the human voice. Diminished hearing from roaring in the head. Bubbling in the right ear, as if something were beating upon the drum, which tingles in the head and makes him anxious. Bubbling in the right ear. Chirping as of crickets in the ear. Cracking in the ear on swallowing.
Rhythmical fluttering in the left ear. Dull humming in the ear, with difficult hearing, and a sensation as if something were in the ear, especially in the morning on rising, lasting four days.
Fluttering noises in the ears. Ringing in the ears, in the evening (thirty-first day). Roaring in the ears, (sixteenth day), (second day). Roaring in the ears, like the sound of a bell, so violent that he could not lie down at night on account of it, but was obliged to rise and walk about for a quarter of an hour at a time (after five days). Roaring in the left ear before and after eating. Thundering, roaring, and grumbling in the ear (after thirty-six hours).
Nose
A smarting, painful scab deep in the right nostril. Constant sneezing, but she cannot do it satisfactorily. Frequent sneezing in the afternoon and following forenoon (after five days).
Frequent sneezing (after thirty-six hours). A sneezing cold, lasting several days. Frequent, but usually ineffectual, efforts to sneeze (after twenty-eight, and forty-eight hours). Coryza (eighth day). Constant coryza. Coryza and cough, with swelling of the submaxillary glands, pain in the throat on swallowing, great chilliness; she was obliged to lie down; an hour afterwards, in bed, burning heat over the whole body. Fluent coryza (after five, six and twelve days). Violent coryza for several weeks (first days). Profuse coryza (after a few hours). Dry coryza (seventh day). Dry coryza; could not get air through the nose (tenth day). Dry coryza, with rough voice (after one hour and a half). She could not get rid of a catarrh, that was at one time dry, at another fluent. Dry catarrh, in the morning on waking.
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.