Fretfulness and fault-finding at everything, every conversation, nose, even the light was disagreeable (Sulphur); fretful, indignant, capricious, every word angered her. Vexed at trifles and talking constantly about other people’s faults. Quarrelsome. Dislike and indifference to those around him. Discontented, has no desire for anything. Dissatisfied all day and vexed with himself, believes he has not done enough and reproaches himself.
Sullen and silent. Silent and turned away his head when spoken to. Indisposed to reply to questions. Returns short answers. Answers slowly. Talks but little, complains only of anguish. Seriousness. When alone thinks about disease and similar things, from which it is difficult to free his mind. Irresolution. Impulsiveness. Inclination to jest in a malicious manner. Agitation; mental and physical. Excitement; towards morning, hindering sleep, though he was drowsy. Sensitiveness; to least noise. Easily made to laugh or cry. Indisposition to amuse himself like other children, with sensitiveness and precocity. Laughing fits, irritability and tendency to tears. Good humor, he like to converse. Lively and combative. Mind energetic and fresh, inclined to gayety. Laziness.
Inability for mental work, fear of his fellow-men, irritability, passion and such down-heartedness from sleeplessness that he committed suicide. Ideas crowd upon him and he is too weak to repel them in order to dwell upon one alone. Confusion of mind. Absence of mind: He scarcely knew what he said or did. Absence of understanding and of external and internal senses, and when one shouted into his ears he looked at those present like one intoxicated waking from a deep sleep. Stupor; after vomiting and diarrhoea; with staring eyes; with sleepiness. Coma; with paralysis, tetanic convulsions, or spasm in muscles of extremities. Unconsciousness; with pallor. Memory lost; of recent acts, with frequent vertigo, drowsiness and feeling as if she were “losing her mind.”
Clinical Melancholia, with suicidal tendency, great restlessness, constant change of place, wringing of her hands, (<) last part of the night. Insanity, with self-mutilation. Excessive fear of death, yet despair of life. Nearly all the mental disorders are characterized by extreme anxiety, fear and restlessness.
Head
Palsied shaking. Felt swollen to an enormous size. Bent on one side and pain on raising it as from rheumatism in sterno-mastoid. Lancinations, (>) cold wet towel or open air on affected part. Tearing, and at same time in r. eye; with heaviness and with drowsy faintness in the daytime; pain as if brain were being torn out.
Aching; morning on waking, (>) rising; in morning on rising, (<) l. side; from 6 to 8 P.M., with sweat, anguish and loss of appetite; growing worse all day, with constriction at temples, as from intoxication; (<) 11 P.M., with cold hands and face; (<) at night; (<) light and noise (Baptisia, Silicea); (<) vomiting; (<) in a warm room; (>) applying cold water; with vertigo; and in face, (<) on l. side, preventing leaning or resting on that side and obliging her to sit up all night and keep the head erect; and across eyes; and in breast and belly, with vomiting and thirst; with soreness of scalp and itching.
Throbbing pain when raising himself in bed, especially in forehead, with nausea; tearing throbbing pain, (<) night; tearing throbbing, in attacks, sometimes on one side and extending over whole head. Stupefying aching; especially in forehead, when walking and standing, (>) sitting, with fine stitches in l. temporal region near canthus; especially over r. eyebrow, with sore pain when knitting the brow. Tensive aching. Contractive pain. Aching as if the brain were pressed by a hundred-weight. Burning pain. Periodical pain. Intermittent pain all day. Headache alternating with pain in stomach. Drawing and throbbing. Throbbing, and in all limbs. Throbbing like a hacking at 2 A.M., as if the skull were pressed asunder, with sweat. Confusion; evening; with noise; with somnolence. Stupidity towards noon, with weakness of head; from 11 A.M. till 6 P.M., as if he had not slept enough; as if he had done much work in great haste, with internal uneasiness; as in violent coryza, and when out of humor, with confusion and vertigo.
Heaviness; (>) open air, but returns on entering room (Tabacum, Zincum met.), with humming in ears; with stupefaction; in morning after rising, as if the brain were oppressed by a load, with humming in ears; as after sexual excess (China). Irritability of brain. Weakness from much pain, with weakness and nausea in pit of stomach. “Aching tired sensation” at base of brain. Congestion. Sensation as if brain moved and beat against skull during motion (China, Sulphur). Brain seems to flap when moving head while walking (Rhus t.), with pressure upon it. Wavering sensation in brain, (<) moving head.
Vertigo; every evening, she has to hold on to something when closing her eyes, on studying or reading; when sitting; on rising; after sleep; on going into open air, (<) on re-entering room (Tabacum, Platina); on walking in open air, with a stupid sensation in head, especially in forehead, so that he staggered; when vomiting; with vanishing of thought when rising up; with stupidity and inability to think; with Dullness of head; with obscuration of sight; with nausea when lying; with rush of blood to heart; with inability to keep erect; with trembling; when walking, as if he would fall to the right; sudden, with qualmishness.
Forehead. – Aching, with vertigo; over brows; (over l. eye, (<) evening and night); during sleep, he complains of headache, now in forehead, now in occiput. Neuralgia in F. and face. Pricking pain over r. eye. Drawing pain in r. side. Throbbing pain during motion. Throbbing pain over root of nose. Constrictive pain above eyes and in temples. Bruised or sore pain in F.; and over nose, (>) rubbing. Inflammation of sinuses, with aggravation at same hour each day. Heaviness, (<) evening, with pulsations more painful in forehead and temples.
Temples, swelling of superficial veins; stitch in l., also (>) touch; tearing stitches in l.; pain; pain in r.; neuralgia in l. on waking; painful hammering at noon and midnight, after which her body feels paralyzed. Vertex, pain; in morning and in occiput; pain in V. as from a weight; burning pain in V., with sore pain in scalp when touched; now a pressing confusing, now a throbbing, or a burning pain in V., (>) rubbing; drawing pain under coronal suture every afternoon. (Hemicrania.) Neuralgia on l. side; then paralyzed feeling. Dull beating pain in one-half of head, as far as above eye. Aching on l. side. Tearing in l. side. When walking, sensation of two marbles striking each other over ear. Bruised pain in one side in morning when rising. Aching in occiput. Tearing in occiput. Occasional shooting in
O.
Hair falls out; on l. side; thick only on middle of skull, and the skin desquamated; with hairs sticking together in places like felt; matted on l. side; the H. which had come out grew again, was stiff, brittle and gray, but gave place to healthy hair. Scurfy eruption on occiput. Pimples over whole scalp, painful on touch as if ecchymosed or ulcerated, with the same pain in whole scalp; (very red pimples); pimple on l. side, covered with scurf, obliging scratching, and painful when rubbed as if ulcerated. Hard pustules; (P., with burning pain, and on face.). Moist discharge. Herpetic eruption behind r. ear, with red base, burning, twitching and stitching, then itching. (Corroding ulcers.) (Ulcerated crusts; as far as middle of forehead.) Sensation as if hair stood on end and were pulled up by the roots. Pain on touch; as if ulcerated. Soreness of scalp; with pain at vertex and sensitiveness of the hair when touched at the points. Bruised pain in external head, (<) touch. (Burning pain in scalp.) Formication every other night. Creeping on occiput, as if roots of hair were moving. Itching; corrosive; painful as of an ulcer, with pain as if ecchymosed, especially in region of occiput; (gnawing); (burning).
Clinical Neuralgic headache, with extreme prostration, burning in stomach, retching, thirst, etc. The pains are burning, shooting, like needles, with soreness in the painful part. Dandruff, head dry and scaly, soreness, rarely eczema and still more rarely pustular eruptions.
Eyes
Blues circles around. yellow as in jaundice. Injected; glistening; and vessels of cornea injected. Sunken; with pale face. Protruding; and red; and watery. Staring. Distorted. Turned upward and squinting. Rigid; and turned upward. Suffused, languid; with lividity of inner part of under lids. Tearing; in l.; in r. and at same time in head. Stitches, with burning. Pain in l.; in l. at night; deep-seated in r., with stitches when turning it; drawing, with twitching in lids; burning, with photophobia. Heavy pressure. Feeling of sand in l.; in eyes in evening. Burning pain. Burning; during the day; in evening, (<) lying down, with pricking; B., with smarting. Pulsative throbbing after midnight, and at every pulsation a stitch. Jerking in l. soreness; with inflamed look. Sensitiveness. Distended feeling, then conjunctival inflammation. Prickling.
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.