Vertigo on entering the house after walking in the open air, with nausea and inclination to eructate; the nausea increases in a warm room, so that she is obliged to go into the open air, when she vomits the food eaten at once. Dizzy and reeling (after five minutes). Dizziness and physical prostration, soon. Reeling.
Reeling in the morning after rising from bed (eleventh day). The girl walked about as if intoxicated. Slight giddiness and occasional headache at the time the eyes began to fail.
Giddiness in occiput. General Head. Head thrown back, amounting almost to opisthotonos. Slight tremulous motion of the head while reading (after a quarter of an hour). Slight trembling of the head and hands. Apoplexy. Congestions to the head.
Frequent congestions to the head and chest. Much congestion of blood and flushing of heat towards the head (first day). Heaviness of the head. Heaviness of the head on stooping (after half an hour). Feeling of heaviness in the head after dinner.
Head heavy and dull. Heaviness of the head, she could scarcely hold it up (first day). Great heaviness of the head; it constantly sinks forward (first day). Dulness and confusion of the head. Dulness of the head, with dull pressure on the root of the nose, with sensation as if the ears were stopped. Headache, etc. Headache with vertigo. Woke with headache and pressure in the vertex and temples, which lasted nearly all day (fourth day). Violent headache in the morning on moving, as if something were shaking within the head, relieved during rest (second day). Severe headache for three or four months.
Headache towards evening, as if both temples were compressed (seventh to tenth day). Headache with a feeling of slight throbbing in both temples. Pain in head and eyes. Violent headache. Whilst passing his urine, was attacked with most sudden and violent pain in head, followed immediately by vomiting; the pain was so violent he screamed for assistance.
Acute and persistent headache. Dull headache, especially in the forehead, aggravated by motion, after dinner. Violent headache, especially drawing in the left half of the forehead and through the left eye. The headache is relieved in the open air.
Compressive pains in the head, especially in the occiput (third day). Oppression of the head, as though the whole world were resting upon him, with weakness. Rising sensation like an aura about his head. Sensation of rush of blood to the head. Shocks in the head, followed by a sensation as if a rush of blood took place to the head. Roaring in the head. Complained much of head and throat, and the former was thrown back. Some deep stitches in the head, extending towards the vertex (third day). Forehead.
Contraction in the muscles of the forehead (first day).
Supraorbital headache. Frontal headache, as if the brain were compressed; the pain is aggravated by inclining the head towards the painful side. Pressive pain in the forehead. Pressive pains in the forehead or vertex. Pressive headache above the eyes (after five minutes); also, with flickering before the eyes, worse on walking (after one hour). Pressive headache about the eyes with heat of the head (after one hour). Pressive headache the whole afternoon, especially above the right eye (second day).
Sensation as if the anterior portion of the brain were pressed backward from the forehead. Dull pressive pain in the forehead and root of the nose. Dull pressive pain, deep in the frontal region. Pain in forehead. Stitches extending from the forehead to the occiput; the disappeared in the open air, but if he stood still, they returned; they ceased entirely on lying down (second day). Temples. Pressive contraction in the temples (after a quarter of an hour). Pressure in the temples lasting ten days (after four days). Alternating pressure and sticking in the temples (first day). Some pain in the temples where symptoms began. A drawing, sticking pain, extending from the left temple over the forehead towards the vertex (first day). Stitches in the left temple (after two minutes, and first and third days).
Sore stitches in the temples (second day). Vertex and Parietals.
A pressure on the vertex as if someone was pressing upon it with a board (first day). Violent pressive headache in the vertex (after three minutes and afterwards). Violent internal pressure in the vertex immediately after eating (first day). Pressive pain on the vertex, at times associated with sticking. Stitches in the vertex for ten days, frequently recurring (after four days). Pain in both sides of the head as if broken (after one and a half hours). Pain in the right parietal bone on pressing on it (first day). Pressive pain in the parietal bones in the morning on waking, which disappeared on rising (sixth day).
Pressure in the right side of the head during dinner. A sticking pain in the parietal bone, extending towards the occiput on walking rapidly (first day). Stitches in the left side of the head (fifth day). Occiput. Pressure in the occiput (fourth and fifth day). Pressive headache extending from the occiput to the temples. External Head. Much hair falls out on combing (fifth and sixth days). Burning on the head, followed by formication, loss of appetite, violent sticking in the ears, then by coldness with shivering (eighth day). Formication above the left temple (second day). Violent itching of the scalp in a room filled with tobacco-smoke.
Eyes
Objective. Dark redness around the eyes. Eyes staring. Eyes fixed. Eyes turned upward. Sparkling eyes. Eyes sunken and seeming small. Eyes lost their brilliancy. Eye listless and heavy. Eye had a haggard appearance. The eyes are dejected, without brilliancy, deeply sunk in the orbit. Eyes closed.
Closure of the eyes and photophobia. Injected eyes. Eyes highly injected, cornea vascular and semi opaque. Cornea dim, covered with mucus. Redness of the cornea, with some photophobia; if she looks towards the light she is obliged to close the eyes (second day). Decided exophthalmus in consequence of the weakness of the recti muscles. The ophthalmoscope demonstrates an atopic condition of both optic nerves, the inner (apparent) half of each, seen in the reversed image, being quite white and non-vascular; the outer part being redder, and more vascular than normal. A examination of the numerous cases reported by Dr. Hutchinson reveals the following conditions common to all the cases; white or gray atrophy of the optic nerve (in a few cases the color was bluish-white), commencing at the outer part of the disk, usually with a sharply defined margin and diminishing size of retinal vessels; in a few cases there signs of congestion, and in two cases neuritis with indistinct outline of disk. In some cases the center of disk was found depressed and atrophied. It is noteworthy that the left eye became first affected and was more affected than the right in nearly every case. The vision failed suddenly in a few, rapidly in many; and in others the progress of the disease was fitful. Some complained of flashes of light, others of fog, but most simply of indistinctness of vision. As the atrophy advanced the pupils dilated and became insensible to light; and in a few cases divergence of the eyes ensued. By means of the ophthalmoscope, both optic nerves appear of brilliant white color, their areas being enlarged, and their outlines clearly defined. The fundus of each eye seems quite normal, with the exceptions of the optic discs, which appear too large, and irregularly circular, the tissue being quite of tendinous whiteness. Subjective. Tight tension and drawing, extending from the left eye down into the upper jaw (first day). The eyes are painful, as after long weeping (first day). Pain in the eyes and flickering, on looking intently at an object (second day).
Pressure in the right eye, which extended into the occiput (eighth day). Pressive sensation in the eyes, especially on moving them. Pressure in the eyes. Feeling as if a hair were in the right eye, towards evening (fourteenth day). Heat in the eyes, with lachrymation (fifth day). Burning in the eyes.
Burning in the eyes, in the evening, while reading. Some stitches in the left eye, after a few minutes. A kind of burning, with a sensation of coldness in the eye (first day).
Orbit. Numbness of orbicularis oris (frequently immediately after taking a chew of tobacco). Pressive sensation, deep in the orbits, with weakness of the eyes and vertigo. Dull pain in the base of the orbits, with redness of the eyes. Sticking above the right eye, extending from the outer margin of the eyebrow to the inner, into the orbit (first day). Some fine stitches in the upper part of the orbit (first day). The orbits are heated (first day). Lachrymation. Lachrymation. Lachrymation, on looking intently at anything (second day). Lid. Squinting, when trying to read. Twitching of the upper lid (after one hour).
Eyelids in persistent motion, half voluntary. Eyelids granular.
Contraction of the lids, with a biting pain in the eyeballs (after seven minutes). Contraction of the lids and lachrymation (first day). Spasmodic contraction of the lids and masseter muscles; inability to open the mouth. Violent itching in the inner canthus of the right eye, with burning after rubbing (after half an hour). Conjunctiva. Great injection of the conjunctiva. Conjunctiva injected. Frequent sensation of a foreign body in the conjunctiva, apparently caused by the irritating action of the smoke. Ball. Pressure in the eyeballs (after two hours). Violent digging-drawing pains in the eyeballs and temporal regions, aggravated by motion, with distended vessels and increased throbbing in them. Pupil. Pupils dilated, etc. Pupils dilated, fixed, and staring. Both pupils are rather large, but the motion of the irides are active. Both pupils rather large, and motion of the irides sluggish. Pupils considerably dilated and not influenced by light. Pupils greatly dilated. Pupils greatly dilated and insensible. Pupils unnaturally dilated, on the approach of light. Pupils fully dilated and quite insensible to the light of a candle held close to the eye (third day). Pupils irregularly dilated. Contraction of the pupils. Pupils much contracted. Pupils contracted, irresponsive to light. Pupils decidedly contracted, but slightly sensitive to light. The right pupil exceedingly contracted; the left was much larger than the usual, and had lost its circular form; both were unaffected on the approach of light. Vision.
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.