Nightly itching; biting, gnawing. Feeling as if there were a boil below each. Feeling as if full of tears, but without lachrymation. Feel worse when moving them or looking steadily. Lachrymation; in morning, with fluent coryza; of r.; L. and itching, with us in eyes in morning; with dazzled sensation in eyes; with half-open and red eyes; corrosive L., making cheeks sore, also lids (Mercurius cor.). Blue spots in white of eye, and on abdomen and genitals. White of eye yellow. Icteric flush in albuginea and at edge of the reddened cheeks. Eyeballs hot and burning sore. Pupils dilated; contracted; alternately contracted and dilated (<) in night and by a lighted candle or moving finger to and fro; insensible to light.
Lids. – Agglutination; in morning; at external canthi in morning. Gum in the morning. OEdema (Rhus t., Apis) often closing eyes; of l.; of upper, with redness, Swelling; and redness; redness and excoriation, of upper. then of lower l., then of forehead, head and neck, without pain and without secretion of mucus; with tendency to eversion and with redness along edges and at angles, and painful vision. Blue. Red and half-shut; edges red; inner surface red, with uneasy sensation rather than pain, obliging rubbing. Desquamation, with redness and with line of excoriation at outer canthi. Lower lid externally excoriated where the burning was most severe. Blepharadenitis, cil; and ulcerosa (Graphites, Mercurius). Inflammation; of l. upper. Not close during sleep. Spasmodic closure. Spasms; and of jaws, etc. Trembling of upper, with lachrymation. Aching over l. lid, (<) raising eyes, and in upper half of ball; sudden, in lids at 1 P.M., with pricking and lachrymation. Smarting as from smoke.
Pain in margins during motion, as if they were dry and rubbed against the balls. Dry when reading by candle light, as if eyes were rubbed by them. Burning in margin of upper. Itching about lashes. Stiffness; as if he had smoked all night. Could not open them at night without lifting them with her finger; l. cannot be opened.
Conjunctiva. – Red; or sore. Minutely injected, with diffused pale redness. Yellow. Bluish-white. Inflammation. Conjunctivitis of tarsal portions; with suffusion of eyes and photophobia; with itching and depreciation of vision; with sparkling eyes, anasarca simulating increased fat, ending in a hide-bound skeleton slowly sinking to the tomb; as from external irritation.
Suborbital pain on l. side, with stitches. Aching under r. eye at night, causing so much anguish that she could not remain in bed. Pinching over eyes. Vision lost; dim; as through white gauze; impaired, with pain in eyes if used. Photophobia. Flickering; and dark; and when eyes were closed shining particles floated backward and forward. Dazzled by snow, with lachrymation. Vision yellow during nausea (Digitalis); of sparks; of white spots or points; of bluish sparks.
Clinical Ophthalmia, which is extremely painful, with very great sensitiveness of the eyes to light, burning, swelling of the lids. In all the external inflammations of the eyeball it is characterized by extreme painfulness (burning), hot and excoriating lachrymation, swelling of the lids, great photophobia; with these symptoms it has been found useful, not only in ophthalmias, but in inflammations of the cornea, with or without ulceration, and also in internal inflammation, with accumulation of pus in the anterior chamber (keratitis). In ciliary neuralgia, with fine, burning pains. Disseminated choroiditis. Retinitis albuminurica.
Ears
Stitches in morning; outward in l. meatus auditorius at night. Tearing in middle; sticking T. outward through l. meatus auditorius, (<) towards evening; drawing T. in l. lobule; drawing T. behind ear, extending along neck to shoulder. Otalgia. Cramp, pain in outer. Deep-seated agreeable creeping. Voluptuous tickling in r. meatus, causing rubbing. Sensation as if l. meatus were stopped from without. Closure from within while swallowing, like deafness. Deafness. Sensitiveness to sound; to noise. Sounds, and in whole head. Ringing; in r. when sitting. Roaring; at every paroxysm of pain; in l. Rushing noise as of a near waterfall.
Clinical Otorrhoea, with thin excoriating discharge, sometimes fetid. The skin within the ear becomes raw and burning, and the discharge becomes ichorous and very offensive (compare Mercury).
Nose
Swollen and pouring forth a watery discharge. Pointed. Tip violet and cold. (Ulceration of upper part of inner, secreting a fetid, bitter ichor); U. of inner surface. Soreness of mucous membrane. Stitches in bones. Pain in bone, at root. Burning pain. Burning; in l. nostril in evening, with peculiar dryness in back part of mouth. Itching internally. Dryness. Stoppage as from catarrh; distressing S. under bridge, which occasionally altered his speech (Lycopodium). Sneezing; without coryza; violent, waking at night, with a copious watery discharge; Coryza; every morning on waking, with sneezing; with hoarseness and sleeplessness; fluent and dry together; fluent with frequent sneezing; fluent with lachrymation in morning. Running from nose; with itching. Discharge every day, beginning at 5 A.M., (>) hot weather, (<) morning (Euphras.), went off in open air; excoriating (Allium cep.); watery and excoriating (Allium cep.); watery excoriating from l. nostril; profuse, thick, yellow. Nosebleed; after wine; during ill humor; when vomiting. Offensive smells. Smells of pitch and sulphur alternately.
Clinical Fluent coryza, with watery, burning, acrid discharge and sneezing. As a rule there is no ulceration or stoppage as in Nux vomica, though they may occasionally happen. The discharge is always burning, excoriating. Extreme sensitiveness of smell, cannot bear even the smell of food.
Face
Swollen (Apis, Rhus t., Mercurius c.); especially about eyes, and red; with fixed redness, more or less under eyes and on cheek- bones; red and covered with cold sweat; dark and hot; with erysipelatous redness and blisters, which soon discharge and look gangrenous; of r. cheek, with pain in that side of face and smooth, shining, scarlet skin over swelling; with fainting fits and vertigo. Pinched, with sunken eyes (Secale c., Veratrum); and livid. Sunken; and pale and covered with cold sweat (Veratrum, Tabacum); and leaden-hued. Deathly color when vomiting (Veratrum, Tabacum, Cocc.). Pale, yellow, cachectic. Pale; corpse-like and convulsively distorted; except a flush on each cheek. Pale-gray and swollen. Leaden-gray. Bluish-gray. Dusky. Livid; and lurid; livid and sunken. (Clayey, lead-colored, with blue and green streaks and spots.) Complexion by gaslight, dark greenish. Yellowish; with sunken eyes; greenish Y; grayish Y. Black around mouth. Red; spot on r. cheek; in spots and covered with sweat; especially upper parts of cheeks; and distorted; with yellowish tinge about nostrils. Hippocratic. Appearance is best compared with that of a cholera patient in the algid stage (Camph., Veratrum). Expression of agony. Wild look; look of vague anxiety and desperation, as well as an expression of deep trouble. Expression of apprehension. Stupid. Frequent smiling. Distorted, as if dissatisfied;distorted drawn lines; distorted by convulsions and pain. Convulsions. Twitching of muscles.
Tearing of a quotidian type; in l. half. Pain, and in teeth and gums; (<) by touching painless side. Sensation as if an eruption would appear all over it. Throbbing, and in head, as if the boils would burst. Stiff feeling. Lancinations along r. inferior maxillary nerve, repeated while lying, with headache. Jaw, abscesses; clenched; tonic cramp in J. and throat; convulsive motions, so as to almost break the glass, when drinking (Mercurius v.); pressure in l. upper J.
Lips. – Spotted black. Livid. Bluish; and cold. White- powdered. Swollen; and cracked; with a blister discharging lymph on r. edge of upper, and a blister discharging pus on l. edge of lower. Desquamation. Brown strip of shrivelled epidermis through middle of vermilion border of lower. Painful blotches in upper. Corrosive ulcer (Mercurius), painful in evening after lying down, and waking at night, tearing and smarting in day on motion, the pain (<) touch and exposure to air; Superficial ulcers on inner surface, with swelling of lips and pain (<) eating or speaking, afterwards with ptyalism. Sore, with ulcers in mouth. Eruption similar to herpes labialis. Eruption on lower, with a thick crust and lardaceous base. Painless E. on margin of vermilion border. Bleeding of lower after eating. Distorted as in risus sardonicus; mouth drawn in all directions. Pricking twitching in one side of upper, (<) when going to sleep. Lower burning, hanging down, everted, painful, and cannot be approximated to upper lip, preventing speech. Itching of upper, as if pricked with red-hot needles, extending as far as under nose, next day swelling of upper lip above vermilion border. Dry; and pale red; and covered with herpes.
Clinical Face is apt to be pale and puffy, even in fever, especially with all gastro-enteric troubles; sometimes pinched and drawn, hippocratic, cold or covered with cold sweat. Facial neuralgia, with burning tearing pains.
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.