Pupils.- Contracted, then dilated. Dilated, then contracted.
Lids.- Half-opened; without swelling and often with twitching and winking of lids. Agglutination as by slimy threads. Mucus. Twitching; in a small spot and extending towards one canthus. Winking. Pressure, (<) r., with sleepiness. Biting and contracted feeling. Contraction. Burning; after being closed. Difficult opening. Upper lid, trembling; r.; l., morning and noon; twitching l.; stitches in l. Lower lid, twitching of l.; winking of r., with throbbing in an artery on l. side, at back of nose, and twitches in skin of l. side of nose; winking of l., with itching. Margins of lids, redness and of the conjunctiva palpebrarum, with sticking and tension in eyes. Stitches; biting stitches in r. upper; itching stitches in l. upper at roots of ciliae; biting in morning on waking; itching.
Canthi.- Agglutination, with yellow humor, (<) morning and evening; of inner. Mucus; in inner. Swelling towards, l. inner. Left caruncula enlarged. Scraping stitches in l.; in inner, also in morning on waking, with mucus; smarting stitches in l. inner. Pressure in l. as from a foreign body. Jerking worrying in l. Burning in l. outer; in inner, (<) touch; in inner when lids are closed firmly. Contraction of l. inner. Itching of l., with twitching.
Brow.- Falling out of hairs. Soreness on touch. Cramplike pain under r., making it making to open eyes.
Orbits.- Coarse stitches at exit of l. infraorbital nerve. Burning and pressure.
Vision.- Lost; while reading. Decreasing gradually when walking in open air. Weak. Dim; if she looks long at any object; while reading; also with flickering; with burning in l. outer canthus and pressure as from said under l. upper lid; as from cobwebs; as from a mist. Short-sighted. Photophobia. Sensitiveness to candle light. Double; in evening. Dizzy in evening. Motion of type while reading, with itching and burning. Flickering; while writing (Seneg.). Black spot hovering before l. eye. Yellow spots when looking at light objects. Brown spot before l. eye towards inner canthus gloomy weather; brown oblong spot hovering obliquely towards l. inner canthus on closing r. eye.
Clinical An exceedingly valuable remedy in asthenopia from prolonged strain, spasm of accommodation (Physostig), twitching of eyes and lids; weakness of the muscles, with “swimming” of the type; myopia, with chronic choroiditis.
Ears
Redness, burning and itching, as if they had been frozen. Twitching of muscles close to l. ear; in cartilage; of tensor tympanic, also with sound as if a leather-covered metal valve were set in motion; in r. tympanic cavity, with rattling or fluttering; rolling inside r. tympanum.
Stitches in l. auditory canal; twitching stitches inside l. ear. Tearing in r; in l., with itching and desire to bore deep, the tearing (<) lying on same side; in r. meatus, extending to upper jaw, caused and (<) by cold air. Cramplike pain inside l. Itching in ear, with burning; itching behind; in l. external auditory tube, with cold stitches in middle ear; tickling itching in r. Eustachian tube alternating with ringing in l. ear. Feeling as if wax flowed out. Wax increased.
Hearing.- Acute. Dull. Deaf in l., as if something were before it; deafness, with headache. Stoppage of l. ear. Ringing in l.; r. when walking in open air. Rushing and ringing; or noise like a distant tea kettle beginning to boil, with heat in head; rushing in r., like the sound of a locomotive, when lying, (>) rising. Roaring; l.; r., then l.; bubbling, roaring in l.; constant roaring in l., with creaking in both on empty swallowing. Sound in l. ear, as of a clock striking at a great distance. Whirring. Humming at night like a spinning-wheel. Sound as if a nail were being driven into a board at a distance. Creaking, as of a wooden screw, when swallowing. Intermittent clicking in r.
Clinical The subjective symptoms are extremely interesting, but there are very few clinical verification; the frost-bitten sensation is, however, characteristic here as elsewhere. Spasm of the muscles of the pinna of the ear, especially of the attollens, persistent spasms, so that they attracted attention.
Nose
Blueness; of tip, with paleness. Inflammation and soreness of inner wall. Creaking in bones. Stinging in l. side of root. Pressure in bones; at root, with a feeling as if nose were stopped, without stoppage; throbbing in bone, with feeling as if a swollen body in upper passage would force itself down; sudden, on superior part of dorsum. Burning pain. Cutting boring from l. nostril into frontal bone, as from an electric shock. Cutting soreness in upper part of l. nostril on inspiration. Sensitiveness high up in l. nostril in afternoon when breathing; S. of inner walls. Dryness, with sensation of a cold in the head; with bleeding when cleaned. Stopped feeling at night; feeling, (<) stopping. Fulness in upper passage, with a feeling as if a ball were forcing itself down the nasal canal. Biting in mucous membrane of l. nostril; in mucous membrane, with sneezing and with jumping of muscles of l. loin. Pricking in r. nostril and eye, as before sneezing. Itching in nose, and pungent smell, as if about to sneeze; tickling itching in l. nostril. Sneezing; morning on waking; from sunlight; from nausea; always twice in succession; frequent in morning; frequent during sleep; frequent, without coryza. Violent sneezing in morning in bed; violent after every attack of cough.
Coryza; every morning, with sneezing; with confusion of head; with discharge causing eruption on nose and upper lip. Fluent coryza; towards evening; attacking l. half of nose and l. eye, then r. half and r. eye, which discharged acrid, burning moisture, then nose swelled, was bluish-red, sore to touch, then desquamated. Discharge of copious mucus; with burning of upper lip; of scanty white, dry mucus, with sensation as if there were much mucus; much viscid mucus after snuff. Clear water drops, without a cold in head; clear water drops on stopping. Watery discharge, with a feeling of stopped coryza (Nux v.). Bleeding; in morning after blowing; (passive bleeding in old people). Smell sensitive; in r. nostril, but lost in l.
Clinical The symptoms of irritation in the nose, and the spasmodic sneezing as well as the discharge of pure water from nostrils without inflammatory symptoms, all point to its use in nervous complaints, with these peculiarities (whooping cough, chorea, etc.).
Face
Pale; and sunken; with bluish appearance around eyes, nose and mouth. Red; after eating, with heat; with itching and burning, as after freezing. Red cheeks, (<) l. Yellow, especially about nostrils and corners of mouth. Puffiness; with a ghastly, leaden appearance; pale, with blue circles around eyes, and blueness of nose and lips; red. Twitching; of upper half of l. side; near r. malar-bone; pulsating twitching in r. cheek. Stitches in l. cheek; middle or r. cheek, in l. cheek, near exit of infraorbital nerve; in r. cheek, where infraorbital nerve forms plexus; in r. malar-bone; in chin; biting, on point of chin; sudden, in l. cheek near eye; electric, in l. malar-bone, with frequent twitches, especially in l. cheek; in r. cheek, close to lower edge of orbit, changing to a coarse pain, as if in bones; fine in r. side. Pain in l. zygoma; on r. side of chin; in facial bones, especially socket of eye, in morning; lancinating and drawing, r. cheek. Pulsation in cheek, with shooting stitches from l. eye into upper jaw.
Lips.- Blue, and pale. Upper chapped, with burning smarting. Middle of lower cracked, burning and painful. Peeling of epithelium of upper when smoking; of inner surface of upper. Herpetic eruption on upper. Painful. pimples on upper; burning, changing of blisters. Vesicles on upper; around r. corner of mouth; burning, on lower; burning, on red part; changing into ulcers, with swelling. Twitching of upper. Trembling. Stitches in r. upper; in middle of upper, near nose. Tearing. Burning. Dryness; with burning pimples, changing to vesicles filled with yellow serum.
Jaws.- Convulsions of lower. Twitching of r. muscle of mastication. Trembling of muscles of lower, and in chin. Clenched. Rigid; Spasmodic drawing in lower; tensive drawing in r., extending towards ear. Stitches in joint; in l. lower jaw, extending into cheek; fine, on margin of lower; in r. lower, as if splinters were forced between skin and flesh. Tearing in r. lower; I. lower; sticking, in horizontal ramus of lower. Pain in l. joint on waking, (<) opening mouth; in joint, with soreness on touch; tearing drawing, in r. upper jaw and r. cheek.
Clinical The neuralgic prosopalgia of Agaricus is electric like, as of splinters between skin and flesh, mostly in the infraorbital nerve, and along the jaws. The symptoms of the lips are very marked, and have been nearly all verified. These eruptions about the mouth have been repeatedly cured in growing children given to jerkings, licking the lips, and with more or less chorea-like symptoms.
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.