Intellectual powers increased. Dullness of intellect. Confusion of ideas. A tumult of crude ideas floated through his mind. Stupefaction of senses like faintness. Memory lost. Coma. Unconsciousness; with howls and falling down; semi-unconscious, eyes partly closed, and if placed in a sitting posture, her head and body inclined to fall forward and to the side, but if roused and spoken to loudly, she made an attempt to sit upright, lifted her eyelids for a moment, responded rationally, but in the unformed halting accents of a drunken person.
Clinical With the collapse extreme anxiety and restlessness in some great lethargy, can scarcely be aroused in others loss of consciousness or even delirium.
Head
Thrown back. Drawn spasmodically towards the shoulder. Tearing; especially in forehead. Aching; mornings after rising; with drawings in r. side; and through temples, with sensation of sinking and exhaustion, as if her breath were leaving her; with burning pain in stomach, eructations, thirst and formication in limbs; sudden; as from constriction of brain; as if brain were compressed from all sides, (>) thinking about it; throbbing; as if bruised or as if brain were sore. Contractive pain at base of brain, especially in occiput and above nose, (<) stooping low lying or pressure, with leaning of head to one or other side, coldness of hands and feet, heat of forehead and waking slumber. Pressure outward. Intermittent drawings all around head as if nerves were drawn up. Throbbing. Heaviness; especially in vertex; with vertigo and sinking backward of head; dizzy. Confusion; especially in anterior part; with noise in ears; approaching vertigo. Stupefying feeling like effects of laudanum. Lightness. Confusion. Intoxication.
Vertigo; when sitting; (<) stooping, with heaviness of head; with dim vision; in attacks, also after nausea; so severe that knees knocked together and he nearly fell; with flushing of face, then pallor, eyes turned to right, upward and backward, head the same, r. arm extended above head as if catching something, bubbling of watery fluid from mouth, limbs cold and cramped, pulse feeble, mind wandering, talking, shouting, crying and laughing by turns, convulsions indications of a relapse if patient were silent; while studying, the book seemed to go round “with the sun.” could hardly keep his seat, felt as if falling towards his right and as if going into sleep or unconsciousness, but not drowsy, as if going off and rousing up again, thought he was going to die, felt bad whenever he thought he was going to die, felt bad whenever he thought of it, could not speak from words seeming to choke him in larynx, as with persons disappointed or grieved, all (>) in open air, but next day in school on thinking of it felt it again. Sickening sensation of swinging when in bed.
Forehead. Veins distended and tortuous. Throbbing-stinging through night, with general dry heat. Tearing sticking in F., with pressure on upper part of frontal bone. Tearing in l. side, with pressure out ward; T. in l. side of F. and l. side of occiput; in l. side of F. and in in l. cheek. Cutting jerks from F. and temples to middle of brain on lying down. Aching; in middle; on r. side; in l. eye in evening; in sinciput, with intermittent stitches starting in temporal bones; above frontal bone, with nausea; extending to occiput; extending to temples, (<) evening, (>) in afternoon by a walk in open air, often with stitches in temples and orbits; alternately in F. and eyes; throbbing. Pressive but not painful sensation in sinciput, changing to confusion of head. Drawing above eyes; in l. side. Heaviness; in sinciput; in sinciput, (<) walking, with heat. Pressure in upper, with heaviness; P. on various places in sinciput.
Temples. Tearing in r.; and in forehead. Boring daily, (<) during morning nap, (>) after waking, then toothache, B. in r. in morning on waking, ending with a stitch, which extends into eye and tooth, returning. Pressure in r.; throbbing. Throbbing of arteries and distended jugular veins.
Pressure in vertex; on r. side of V. Stitches in r. half of brain. Pressure by jerks over l. ear. Cutting from l. side of occiput to forehead. Pressure in occiput. Uneasiness in occiput. Throbbing in cerebellum.
Clinical It has been used after sunstroke, especially with beating pain in cerebellum. The predominating head symptoms are throbbing, or constrictive as if knotted up, with general coldness.
Eyes
Hollow. Surrounded by blue circles. Staring; distorted. Inflamed. Suffused with blood. Brilliant. Twitching, turned upward, pupils dilated, eyes sometimes turned to r. but generally to l., lachrymation. Soreness or tense, stiff feeling of E. and lids. Tension. Lachrymation in open air. Balls turned upward. Pressing-out pain in r. ball on moving it. Sensation in l. balls as from pushing upon it from behind. Pupils contracted; then dilated; dilated; insensible.
Lids. Covered with red spots. Constantly agitated and half- closed, showing balls turned upward and outward. Twitching; of upper; T. in external canthus. Smarting. Biting and sticking. Biting of edges; in external canthus. Biting-itching. Burning; in l.; in edges.
Conjunctiva injected. Red spots on white of r. Pressure on muscle of r. brow. Photophobia. Occasional loss of vision. Dimness of V., for objects farther off than arm’s length; with ocular hallucinations. Glittering of objects. Flickering. Letters ran together on reading script in forenoon, after ceasing to read a bright circle before eyes. Objects appeared encircled by a cloud. Hallucinations. Wonderful forms float before eyes. Black floating spots. Sparks and fiery wheels.
Ears
Red ulcer in l. extended meatus, with sticking on pressure. Lobules red; and hot. Sticking; from a draught of air or wind; deep in l. Tearing above and behind; in l. Roaring. Ringing. Singing; in l. Buzzing.
Nose
Stitching from root almost to tip, or crawling; S. in anterior corner of nostril, as if ulcerated and sore. Sudden boring in r. side, near nose. Drawing in l. side. Itching internally; in l. nostril. Air of room breathed through the nose seemed cooler when walking. Obstruction in r. side, then secretion of thin mucus. Stoppage or running or bleeding. Sneezing. Coryza; stopped. Discharge of thin mucus in morning on rising (and evenings on going to sleep?) without real coryza. Bleeding; at 7 A.M.
Clinical The first stages of violent coryza, generally dry, with sneezing and flatulence. A palliative in many forms of fluent coryza, especially hay fever.
Face
Pale and anxious (Arsenicum, Carbo-v., Sec-c. Veratrum); P., distorted and sunken (Arsenicum, Sec-c., Veratrum); and livid; alternately P. and livid, with incessant spasmodic movements; with fixed and stupid look. Red; and puffy; with a wild expression; cheeks and lobules of ears. Bluish (Cuprum). Black. Vacant expression; and eyes wandering about room; speechless and powerless. Twitching. Spasmodic distortion, with froth from mouth. Stitching in l. cheek. Boring in r. zygoma. Distortion of mouth. Lips everted as in bleating. Trismus. Tensive pain in masticators. Drawing in angle of r. lower jaw. Stitching in chin.
Clinical Collapsed expressions, with cold sweat, blue lips, etc. (Cuprum).
Mouth
Teeth. Looseness. Seemed too long, with toothache, which seemed to originate from the swelling of submaxillary gland. Stitch extending into eye, on going into cold or windy air, with the toothache. Cutting shootings through gum to roots of incisors and canines. Gnawing and boring in nearly all back teeth, especially in hollow T., (<) coffee or alcoholic drinks and touch of soft bread, (>) drinking cold water but (<) rinsing with cold water and by cold air, with longing for beer, which relieved, as also tobacco-smoking. Toothache now in one, now in another tooth; T. ceases during coition, after which he sleeps quietly for the first time. Drawings in hollow lower back T.; in decayed upper incisors when walking. Gums loosened, of a livid color.
Tongue. Thick, spongy, fissured, covered with tough yellow mucus. Cold (Cuprum, Veratrum), flabby, trembling; C. at tip. Feeling as if swollen and numb (Aconite). Biting in end as from pepper (Aconite). Burning on edge and on hard palate. Dry at night; D. or covered with aphthae; D. sensation on back part, like a scraping, with much saliva. Speech feeble, broken (Stramonium), hoarse. Loss of speech. Difficulty of speech; and of thought.
Stitches in palate. Dry scraping on palate. Swollen sensation in whole interior of mouth, tongue, gums and palate. Burning on palate, extending into oesophagus, not (>) by drinking. Heat in mouth and stomach. Sensation in M. and stomach as after peppermint lozenges. Cold sensation rises into mouth and to palate. Coolness, changing to sharpness and burning. Dryness. Froth; about teeth, which were clenched. Salivation; at times slimy and tenacious; watery.
Taste. Increased to all food. Bitter to food, to meat more than to bread; to everything, even to the customary tobacco. Bad. Offensive breath in morning.
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.