Eye
Objective. Sudden sensation of some foreign body in left eye, like grit or dust, which seems to diffuse itself over the eyeball and obscures the sight; eye cannot bear the light, 5 P.M., worse at 6 P.M.; lachrymation; it cannot be opened more than half way, as if eyelids were swollen, and painful when closed, so as to disturb sleep (thirteenth day). Awoke at 5 A.M. with aching pain in left eye; the pressure of the close eyelid very painful; red streaks across the cornea, towards external canthus; inflammation of conjunctiva of left eye, towards external canthus; sensation of some fixed grit or foreign sharp substances, which grates against the eyeball when turned outwards; aching pains in left eye, worse when moving it; eyeball cannot easily be turned outwards (fourteenth day). Subjective. The eye (especially the left, which had a sensation of a grit in internal canthus) very weak (sixty-seventh day). Aching in left eye from (artificial) light (nineteenth day). Stupefying pressure in the eyes, with transient dimness of vision (after ten minutes). The eyes seem too tight, with biting in the lids and blinking (first day).
Eyes sensitive to light. Brow. Twitchings in left eyebrow (eleventh day). Lid. Biting in the left eyelid. Vision.
Dimness of vision. Transient dimness of sight. Slight obscuration of vision. Impaired sight and flickering before the eyes (soon), lasting half an hour, disappearing after eructations; the vision was much better after the trial than it had been before.
Eyes dull and sight indistinct (sixty-first day). Dizzy wavering sensation before the eyes (after ten minutes). Quivering before the eyes. Swimming before the eyes (seventeenth day).
Ear
Loud singing and hissing in both ears (seventeenth day). Singing (as of a kettle) in the right ear, in the evening (thirty-third day).
Nose
Objective. Nose sore about edges, from cold aqueous coryza (twenty-first day). Alae of nose sore, worse morning and towards night (fiftieth day). Swelling of left ala nasi (one hundred and ninety-second day). Sneezing (fifth and following days). Watery coryza (seventeenth day); coryza of yellow mucus; complete stuffing in the nose (eighteenth day); coryza; aqueous running from nose (nineteenth day); tenacious yellow mucus copiously formed in nose, worse in left nostril; nose dry towards the alae (forty-second day); watery coryza, at 8 P.M. (forty-third day); thick whitish coryza and diminished smell, in the morning (forty- ninth day); watery coryza (fiftieth day); obstructing, yellow, gummy mucus in left nostril and root of nose, in posterior nares and throat (one hundred and ninety-second day). Repeated attacks of epistaxis. Subjective. Stuffing in nose, at 8 P.M. (third day). Stuffing at root of nose (fifth day); stuffing in nose, with diminished smell (seventeenth day); stuffing in nose, extending down its chamber, always worse half an hour after a dose (twenty-eighth day); stuffing in nose, at 6 P.M. and in the evening (thirtieth day); stuffing in the nose and its chambers of thick bright-yellow gummy mucus, in the morning (thirty-first day); stuffing of yellow mucus in nose, the root, and chamber, extending down into the throat; stuffing in nose at 6 P.M. and in evening (thirty-second day); stuffing in nose of thick tenacious yellow mucus, at root of nose, and its chambers (thirty-third day); stuffing in nose and its chambers (thirty- fourth day); nose becomes stuffed at root and in chambers (thirty-sixth day); clogged sensation (fortieth day); stuffing in nose of yellow tenacious mucus, copious, obstinate, and continuous, on waking, increasing at 9 A.M. (forty-first day); stuffing in nose (forty-third day); stuffing in chambers of nose, extending down towards throat, in the morning; nose stuffed at root (forty-fifth day); stuffing in nose (forty-sixth and forty- seventh days); Camphor, by olfaction, speedily removed the stuffing at the nose, and as this was a well-marked symptom, it served as an index which called my attention to the action of different potencies; occasionally after taking the mother tincture, and the voice and nose being perfectly clear and free, the one almost immediately became husky or hoarse, and the other, with the throat, was obstructed with mucus; if the symptoms were present, a corresponding aggravation took place; after the 3d.
this occurred after a slight interval, which again was prolonged after the 5th, till, at the 15th potency, it did not appear for half, or even much more, and was proportionately less intense.
Mucous membrane seems irritable, as on taking cold; sensation of clammy dryness in the mouth, extending all through it (one hundred and seventy-seventh day). Teasing tickling in the nose, that troubled him three times during the day. Picking the nose (forty-ninth day). Itching, at intervals, inside point of nose (forty-third day). Itching inside nose, at tip, in the evening (forty-fourth day). Itching inside nose at point; thrusting of the finger into the nose (forty-eighth day). Smell. Loss of smell (nineteenth and thirty-third days).
Face
Objective. Painful expression of face; face very pale, with very numerous black pores (one hundred and seventy-third day). Face pale, very thin (thirtieth day). Subjective. Cramp like pain in both masseter muscles, at noon in the afternoon, with stiffness on moving the jaw and pain in the meatus auditorius. Sensation of a drop of cold water tickling for half an inch occasionally just above zygoma, left side (sixty-first day). Sensation as of cobwebs being moved over different, parts first of cerebellum and then over face (seventeenth day). Sensation of cobwebs moving over face, at 10 P.M., in bed (twenty-fourth day). Sensation as if skin of face were tightened (eighteenth day). Lips. Swelling of the upper lip, of the gums. Dryness and heat of lips and mouth (nineteenth day). Jaw. Sensation of partial dislocation of lower jaw, forward, on left side (one hundred and seventy- ninth day).
Mouth
Teeth. Shooting pain in first upper molar of left side, extending into cheek (twenty-third day). Shooting pain in first lower molar, left side, in the morning (twenty-fourth day).
Tongue. Tongue coated dirty yellow (first day). Tongue covered with moist brown coating (ninth day); light-brown coating on tongue; tongue feels rough, as if scraped (eleventh day); tongue covered with brown coating, in morning (on awaking), (twelfth day); heat in tongue and throat and in stomach (fourteenth day); tongue white, with slight brown crust in center and at back, in the morning (fifteenth day); tongue white and brown streak down the middle, wider at back, in the morning (seventeenth day); tongue white, with slight brown in center and at back, in the morning; tongue rather flabby, pitted with the impress of the teeth on its edges; papillae at apex enlarged; papillae conicae and filiformae slightly enlarged, coated white, with brown crust at back (nineteenth day); tongue white, with brown crust at back (twenty-second day); tongue dirty brown at back, in the morning (twenty-third day); tongue elongated, red (thirty-first day); tongue white, elongated, in the morning (thirty-second day); tongue covered with moist brown coating; papillae red, enlarged, in the morning (thirty-fourth day); tongue covered with moist brown coating on awaking; papillae red and raised (thirty- sixth and thirty-eighth days); tongue glazed (fortieth day); tongue coated white, rough (forty-eighth day); tongue coated moist brown, in the morning; becomes red and elongated, and the papillae like deep red spots, with wedge-shaped brown crust at back, towards evening (fifty-second day). General Mouth. Flat odor from the mouth (first day). Breath at times hot to the hand, offensive (nineteenth day). Breath hot and balmy in mouth, hot to hand and to the lips, in expiration from the nose (twenty- eighth day). Breath feels hot (forty-first day). Breath feels hot, in the evening (twelfth day). Breath offensive (twenty- first, one hundred and seventy-first, on hundred and seventy- fifth, and other days). Breath very offensive, and disagreeable odor from the body, tainting the clothes (one hundred and ninety- second day). Dryness in mouth and throat; no thirst (eighteenth day). Saliva. Salivation. (Frothy saliva and difficult speech, on account of difficulty mobility of the tongue). Watery saliva, with pressure in the stomach. Much thin tasteless saliva. Salivation and chilliness (first day). Saliva increased, 7 P.M. (twelfth day). Copious secretion of saliva (fortieth day). Watery, increased saliva and frequent swallowing (fortieth day). Increased watery saliva and frequent swallowing (forty-fifth day). Increased saliva; constant swallowing (forty- seventh day). Increased saliva (fifty-second day). Taste.
Taste clammy (eighteenth day). Taste deficient (nineteenth day). Eats without relish. Want of relish for animal diet and stout (ninth day). Want of relish and taste clammy (eleventh day). No relish for food (eighteenth day). No relish for stout (thirty-third and thirty-fourth days). Want of relish for food and beer, which tastes flat and insipid and heavy (forty-fifth day). Diminished relish (one hundred and seventy-fifth day).
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.