Stupefaction of the head (thirty-ninth day); in the morning (after six hours). Heaviness of the head, so that he is unable to think. Sensation of heaviness in the head, especially in the occiput, aggravated by every motion (after half an hour).
Heaviness of the head, with ill-humor and disinclination to talk (after three hours). Heaviness in the head, as if a weight were pressing the brain inward (after one hour and a half). Head extremely weak, dull, and heavy. Head seems dull. Dulness of the head with nausea. The whole head is dull and feels screwed in.
The head seems dull and incapable of thought. Head very dull, with yawning (twenty-first day). Slight dulness in the head, in the afternoon (twenty-second day). Dulness (twenty-ninth day); great, at noon (forty-sixth day). Dulness of the head (thirteenth day); in the morning (eleventh day). Dulness of the head the whole forenoon, with paroxysms of drawing pain in the middle of forehead, which was especially violent in the left frontal eminence, and thence extended to the posterior portion of the left eyeball, and at times as far as the occiput, and at 3 P.M.
passed into a constant digging pain; this headache was as violent in the open air as in the room, and lasted until 10 P.M.
(eleventh day). Dulness and confusion in the head (thirty-second day). Dulness of the head, at 11 A.M., while smoking, with heaviness, so that he was obliged to lie down (thirty-ninth day); about 11 A.M. he became weak, weary, and sleepy, so that he was obliged to go to bed, as on the preceding day; he slept an hour and a half, after which he was not refreshed, but, on the contrary, he had a very heavy dull head, a bad taste, and then thirst; after drinking cold water he had hiccough, with much yawning, sobbing respiration, and palpitation, and continued to feel weak, so that he remained two hours longer in bed, from which, however, he had to rise frequently to urinate (fifty-sixth day); very dull head, in the evening, while studying, extending into the forehead, with pain in the right eye, as if pressed into the orbit (seventy-second day). Slight dulness of the head two hours after dinner (twenty-second day); on the right side of the forehead, continuing an hour (after one hour, sixty-sixth day); with heaviness and weariness of the legs (sixty-sixth day); in the morning (sixty-seventh day). Head very dull (twenty-fifth day). Considerable dulness of the head with mistiness of sight (fifth day); with vanishing of objects when attempting to fix them, in the forenoon (ninth day); and feeling of fullness in the head, with ill-humor and drowsiness (twelfth and thirteenth days); dulness (sixteenth and seventeenth days). Feeling of fullness in the head (sixteenth day). Fullness in the head, with drawing pain in the neck, in the afternoon (sixteenth day).
Internal weakness of the head; the brain seems numb and dead.
Feeling of weight in the head, with pressure in the right side of the head and stupefaction; she is not completely conscious of what she does; she only wants to slumber (twenty-sixth day). Dull headache, in the morning, with pressure in the eyes and irresistible inclination to sleep. Dull pain, like a stupefaction, over the whole head (after one hour). Very violent headache all day (sixth day); on awaking in the morning (fourteenth day); lasting three hours (fifteenth day); in the morning (seventeenth day); very severe, for half an hour, towards noon (eighteenth day); slight, in the afternoon (nineteenth day); in the morning (twenty-first and twenty-fourth days). Something of a headache, in the evening (nineteenth day); some painful spots on the head, at most the size of a penny; the pain seemed seated in the bone itself, in the evening (forty-ninth day). An old migraine stops after he first four weeks, but four weeks later recurs with a unusually violent attack, lasting two days for the first time, commencing with icy cold hands and feet and colic, and rising from the abdomen to the head; two months after this attack a still more severe on occurred, and lasted three days, with frightful nausea and bilious vomiting, until, at the end of the third day, the menses came on six days too early and flowed very profusely; afterwards the attacks became weaker and more infrequent, until, in the twelfth month, it appeared only as a simple headache, which often alternated with colic pains, and afterwards stopped entirely and permanently. Headache and chilliness (twenty-fifth day); pain in the head and eyes, at night (thirty-first day); headache (sixty-fourth day). Headache continued with more or less violence; on the last day it was accompanied with roughness of voice and a scraping sensation in the throat, which, however, continued only a few hours. During the first day the headache again appeared, but it was less violent, and ceased entirely after the fourth day. In the evening considerable headache, which lasted till midnight (thirteenth day); headache on awaking after a restless night; continued all day (twenty-fourth day); in the evening (twenty-sixth day); in the evening, which lasted until about midnight (thirtieth day); a return, in the evening (thirty-first day); with burning in the right eye, in the afternoon (thirty-fourth day); intolerable during the access of heat (thirty-fifth day). Headache frequently changing its place, lasting a long time. The whole head is painful and extremely painful to touch, with nausea, chilliness along the back, sticking in the eyes, and difficult speech all day. At night the whole head is painful as if it would burst.
Headache on walking in the open air, not in the house. Headache; fine sticking crawling in the head, in the morning. Headache, in the morning, as after too deep sleep or after stooping; a pulsation or pressing short jerking in the forehead, with redness of the face. Headache, in the morning, at one time feeling as if the head were forced asunder at the malar bone and upper jaw; at another time in the vertex, as if it were pierced by a nail, as by a jerk; at another time in the forehead, as if it would fall out, with internal chilliness; all these symptoms were relieved by walking in the open air. Headache, like a cramp, with a sensation as if the eyeballs were pressed inward; the pain was relieved if one rubbed the forehead with the hand, and she fell asleep; after the headache ceased, she was seized with a similar pain in the abdomen, worse in the evening; in the abdomen the pain extended along the anterior surfaces of the legs to the feet; if she is distracted and amused she forgets the pain (tenth day), (towards the close of scanty menstruation). Constant headache on the day preceding the menses, with hot forehead and burning heat in the eyes; wavelike beating over the whole head, with full pulsation in all the vessels and great excitement, followed by palpitation, with profuse discharge of blood; the day after which she lay in a constant vertigo, and on the third day pressure in the stomach, as from a stone, alternating with compressive distress over the whole chest and throat, with a sensation in the later is if it were internally swollen, which impedes swallowing, and a feeling as of a growth in the throat (tenth month). In bed pains in the head and teeth become intolerable. Paroxysms of violent headache, with vomiting, preceded by sudden falling asleep of the whole left side of the body, from the lips to the toes, during which the tongue became immovable for a moment; the attempt to dress was unsuccessful, because he did not know at all how to begin, and got everything turned about. Violent headache on waking, in the morning (forty- ninth day). In the evening violent headache, lasting until 10 o’clock (twenty-sixth day). Violent headache, as if the brain were distended, on waking, in the morning, after deep sleep at night, with nausea and vomiting three times of bitter water, with a chill, lasting five hours; could not get warm in bed, with loss of appetite and without thirst. Headache, with pressure in the right eye (after twenty weeks). Pressive headache, with pressure in both eyes, accompanied with gastric uneasiness and reddened urine, towards noon (fifteenth day); aggravated by a small quantity of wine taken at dinner, and smoking increased it to a vertigo (seventeenth day). Pressing headache through the day, beginning on the right side, afterwards extending over the whole head (seventh day); slight, for two hours, in the forenoon (eighth day); continual for two days (after thirteen days); very violent on awaking, in the morning (twenty-first day); slight, all day (twenty-fifth day). Feeling as though a piece of brain lay in the brain when turning the head on side. Sensation as if a tight cap were fitted over the whole scalp. Violent waving, compressive pains through the whole head, wandering about, changing their place. Headache, as if the head were compressed externally, with pulse like beating and sticking in the temples; the pains disappear on external pressure and on bending backward; but return on bending forward (after four hours). The head and nape of the neck seemed screwed together with an iron bolt.
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.