Temples. – Tearing at 6 A.M. in bed in r., extending to face; drawing T., extending from r, to upper jaw and some teeth. Cutting in l. Aching in r. Boring; in r. at 10.30 P.M., increasing in shocks, the same in l. at 10 P.M. when sitting.
Vertex – Tearing on r.; at 8 A.M., more violent diagonally. Drawing extending form top of skull to above and behind l. ear. Aching over coronal sutures, passing to eyes and root of nose.
Sides of Head – Stinging and digging in l. half of brain, alternately anteriorly and posteriorly. Tearing on r. side of head at night on waking; now in r., now in l.; on l. side of skull; in spots on r. skull. Aching in one side, with enlarged feeling in corresponding eye; in r.; in r. in evening, consisting of heaviness, fulness and pressure; dragging beating A. in r., with general discomfort. Boring in r. at 8 A.M.; in r. upper at 8 A.M.; in spots in r. upper at 1 P.M. when walking, increasing in shocks. Digging in r. side of head; in r. hemisphere in evening, with raging till he lost his senses, if it abates in forehead, it increases in side of head and towards occiput, whence it extends to nape, pain (<) during motion. When there is vertigo so that he to the left. Drawing in side; on top of l. side, also as if crawling and pricking; in r. side, (<) motion, (>) rest, with pressure and heaviness; sudden drawing upward on r. parietal bone at 10.30 P.M., when sitting, then pressing on l. side of forehead, then pressing deep in r. wrist.
Occiput. – Intermittent digging cutting motion, extending through l. hemisphere to frontal protuberance, increasing and decreasing rapidly. Boring in r. Narrow traction, extending into middle of brain.
Scalp. – Tumorlike, itching elevations, and in nape. Wandering tearing in l. upper forehead. Tender. Itching; with creeping crawling and sensation as if roots of hair were pulled upward; at boundary of neck and scalp at night; with biting, and on nape; pricking, in a spot in hair at nape. Creeping towards morning.
Clinical Hemicrania, deep-seated, periodical headache, a boring pain, (>) tight bandaging, brought on by any depressing cause; sometimes the bones of the head feel as if they would separate and the head feels very large, the patient almost loses her senses, it ends in vomiting, or the pain may extend to the face (compare with the gastric symptoms).
Eyes
Bloodshot; and unable to read at night. Wild rolling, with dilated and insensible pupil. Hollow. Bleared; and dry, with circumscribed congestion and ecchymoses in conjunctiva bulbi (Arn, O Plumb.), after itching in the preceding evening. Opaque spot on cornea. Filled with mucus; morning on waking, with confusion of head, especially in forehead and root of nose. Ophthalmia, with pain. Photophobia; with smarting and burning after long use. Deep-seated aching in morning. Smarting; on closing them; by gaslight. Pricking; in l. Pressure as if too full, with heat and pain in ball on motion and touch, with mucous flocks in daytime, infiltration of conjunctiva. bulbi and palpebrarum, with stinging itching pain as from a grain of sand, gray spots and bodies in shape of serpents moving before vision, misty vision, narrowing of aperture between lids, frequent winking, general debility and heat of skin. Sore pain in upper and inner part of r. when reading. Burning, morning on waking, with dryness and trouble in opening them. Itching in l., with biting. Lachrymation. Sticking in l. ball.; in inner angles of balls; in l. ball at 6 A.M. on rising, more in lower part; in r. ball at 10 P.M.; burning sticking on external surface of l. ball. Pupil contracted.
Scurf in lashes. Agglutination; of r. at night; with smarting on waking. Stitches in r., (<) evening, with burning. Canthi, blood-red, with swelling of caruncula lachrymalis and with clusters of red vessels extending from inner canthus to cornea (Zincum met.), puckering and interstitial distention of conjunctiva, increased secretion of tears and gum; stitches in inner; itching; biting in r. outer. Red swelling around cornea, towards inner canthus (Zincum met.). Redness of conjunctiva of eyes and lids.
Orbits. – Tearing in centre of r. lower ridge in attacks while sitting, with pressing. Pressure on l. lower border; in l. eyebrow. Neuralgic pain in l. infraorbital region. Boring on surface of l; on lower margin of l.; on upper margin of r.; on lower margin of r.; deep in r. lower ridge; on both sides of glabella. Drawing on lower margin of r.; in centre of r. lower ridge.
Vision. – Blindness; caused by mucus (Euphras.) Obscuration, with anxiety, heat in face and lachrymation. Weakness, with moisture of eyes; sudden W. at twilight. Blurring of letters, with vanishing of vision when reading and writing (Natrum mur.). Farsighted. Fiery bodies and flashes in morning in the dark.
Clinical With the headache and nervous symptoms there is frequently great photophobia, with general loss of muscular coordination, is unable to keep the eyes fixed steadily (Conium) and everything is blurred. The inflammatory symptoms are usually very violent; purulent ophthalmia, with great swelling of the conjunctiva, and especially of caruncula, the discharge is very abundant and purulent; ophthalmia, with great swelling of the conjunctiva, and especially of the caruncula, the discharge is very abundant and purulent; even when the cornea is involved and ulceration results it is sometimes found to check the progress of the disease. Especially in new-born infants, purulent ophthalmia, with much profuse discharge, threatening, or actual ulceration. Chronic ulceration of the; margins of the lids, with profuse discharge, sometimes calls for Argentum nit., but more frequently for Argentum met., if the edges of the lid are thickened.
Ears
Tearing behind r. Twitching pain; in r., with tearing. Stitches deep in l.; deep in r. and all around it; in r. when walking. Aching above l., morning after rising. Painful stoppage, with headache. Boring above r.; in front of l. Feeling of a board before l. Drawing in front of and above r., like a crawling and pricking. Whizzing in l., with feeling of obstruction and hard hearing; W. before, with Dullness of head. Ringing; morning in bed; with deafness (China); before ears, passing into momentary deafness, with roaring.
Nose
Ulcers in; covered with yellow crusts. Bleeding pimple on septum. Pain in r. wing, with swelling. Sore pain in, when compressing wings. Bruised pain in l. bones. Itching in. Smarting in. Rigidity in cavity, with clawing. Obstruction; at night, with itching; in room, but in open air flow of thin mucus; in upper part. Sneezing. Scurfs in; causing pain and bleeding when detached. Discharge of white pus, with clots of blood; white pus, mixed with lumps; pus like brain substance; purulent mucus, with spots of blood when sneezing. ‘Coryza; with chilliness, sickly look, lachrymation, sneezing and stupefying headache, obliging her to lie down in afternoon; with sneezing, then tingling in nose and posterior nares; dry, then loose, changing to rattling cough, with yellow expectoration, sweat, bad look, hollow eyes and disturbed sleep, and as the cough improved blowing from nose purulent mucus mixed with blood. Bleeding from r. nostril at 8 A.M.; blows blood from r. nostril; blows blood and puriform mucus from nose. Sense of smell dull. Smell of pus before nose at night.
Clinical Loss of smell and haemorrhages.
Face
Sunken, pale, bluish. Pale. Leaden-colored, with nausea. Sickly appearance. Expression of old age, with tight drawing of skin over bones. Convulsions, the mouth being almost locked. Twitching under skin close to l. side of nose, with creeping. Stitches; in l. cheek; on zygoma; in l. cheek, with drawing; burning S. on l. zygoma at 4 P.M., then r.; deep in l. side of chin. Tearing on r. cheek; in l. zygoma, with boring. Pain wandering about in l. cheek like a crawling. Boring in r. cheek; deep in sides of chin. Drawing in cheek; under skin, above chin.
Lips.- Bluish, and soft parts of mouth. Purple-red spots on margins and about chin, with a whitish-gray crust covering interior of mouth. Hard pimples on vermilion border, paler than lips and sore to touch. Pustule on derma of upper lip, arising from a painful red, shining pimple. Dry and viscid; lips, mouth, tongue and fauces parched night and morning.
Jaws – Shooting over r. ramus. Bruised pain in r. lower. Drawing in r. lower.
Mouth
Teeth – Exfoliation of a r. lower molar, causing ulcerative pain and a vacillating sensation. Stitches in lower; in r. molars, lower, then upper. Sudden tearing in morning when washing mouth with cold water. Aching; in l.; in r. molars; (<) chewing, eating sour things and putting cold things into mouth, with grumbling and digging, especially in l. lower teeth. Ragging in a carious l. lower molar. Sensitiveness to cold water (Calcarea c.). Drawing in r. upper; in molars; in r. lower molars; in lower T., also at 9 P.M.; through lower incisors, with sensation as if lifted.
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.