Head
(Sticking.) (Sticking, tearing.) Aching; in the room; with weight over eyes; at base of brain; when walking, as if brain were shattered; throbbing, waking him at night, with violent throbbing in carotids; stupefying, (<) forehead, changing to intermittent tearing; stupefying, (<) forehead, alternating with sticking, (<) l. side. Feeling as if encircled buy a band. Confusion; at 4 P.M., with pressure in frontal region and difficult thought on going into open air; (<) open air, with pain in forehead and temples; with fulness, then heat; as from physical weakness, (<) morning. Heaviness; (<) sinciput, with pressure. Stupefaction. Rush of blood. Congestion of brain. Pulsation in brain. Waving in brain as from violent throbbing of arteries, (<) stooping, with pressure in forehead. Intoxication; after a meal. Vertigo; (<) walking, with tottering; with obscured vision; with reticulated vision, pain in r. side of forehead, then pricking in arms, then viscid sweat on them; even to faintness. Apoplectic and cramped condition. Amelioration in room; A. from a cup of coffee.
Forehead.- Sticking over r. eye when coughing. Pain; over eyes; on l. side, with amblyopia; (<) meninges of brain; and in occiput, less in parietals and still more seldom in encephalon; involving parietal region and occiput; so that he wrinkled the skin; paroxysmal in upper part, at times Contractive, with general discomfort, at another time ease, with excited fancies. Pressure, provoking laying hand on it; P. (>) nosebleed, with heat. Fulness as if screwed in. Tension; and warmth. Heaviness, with burning; H. in sinciput, (<) stooping, with confusion. Confusion; in l.; in open air; in sinciput in morning on waking; and in occiput; with warmth; preventing thought; spreading afterwards to sight and hearing. Throbbing in eminences; l. r., (<) movement and stooping, with drawing.
Aching in temples; after eating, and in whole external head; (<) r.,. (<) cold air,(>) in house; in r. forehead and upper lid, (>) motion in open air, with dizziness. Pressure in vertex on turning head, with drawing in nape. (Tearing in occiput). Pain in occiput; P. concentrated itself in side of O., which felt sore, with burning, (>) pressure. Tension ion occiput. Crawling on vertex. Gnawing on scalp, (<) moving or pressing it.
Eyes
Distorted. Squinting. Staring; and looked larger than usual; and sunken, glistening; and looked dim, watery, pupils large, later wild look, squinting. Red; and wild, sparkling; and prominent. Brilliant; and rolling about. Lustreless, and brain obscured. Protruding moving convulsively. Twitching. Sensation of a foreign body; pressure as from sand in them. Felt larger than usual. Felt as if he had been awake all night. Burning. Weakness; on reading. Heaviness. Insensibility, so that lids did not wink when cornea was touched. Lachrymation in open air, with sensitiveness of r. eye.
Pain in balls; r., (<) turning it outward and upward; in upper part, (<) moving them outward and upward; with heaviness of upper lids. Pressure on balls, with sensitiveness to hard pressure; P. upon r. ball, with sensitiveness to touch of upper and outer part. Pupils dilated; and insensible; l. D. and insensible; and insensible, and albuginea red; then contracted. Pupils contracted; (<) r.; (<) r. neither completely round; r., and angular; r., and r. ball sensitive; P. became smaller as headache grew worse; then dilated. Pupils not quite round.
Mucus in inner canthus. Lids swollen, whites reddish here and there, eyes look as after crying. Lids always half open. Biting in outer surface of l. lower lid, then r. Heaviness of upper lids; from sleepiness. Inability to open eye. Itching tearing in canthi, (<) external, (>) rubbing. (Itching in l. inner canthus). Conjunctiva injected; r., and burning and lachrymation; (<) l., l. lids agglutinated, vessels of sclerotic injected. Pain in superciliary ridge; in r. brow. Gnawing pressure in upper margin of orbit, (>) touch.
Vision dim; r. eye; and short. Short. Uncertain. Weak. Photophobia; with lachrymation in open air. Double. Sticks the needle in the wrong place when sewing. They cry out that near objects will fall and grasp at them. Flickering; and dark points moving rapidly. When reading, letters looked like ants running together. Small objects seem very large (Nux-mos.). Objects seem larger and brighter. All objects seem brighter and smaller, an indistinct yellowish umbra around every letter, afterwards some words seemed very large, but when viewed with r. eye they were like other words. The flame of one light seemed smaller, that of another larger, though they were of the same size. Everything looked like gold. Scarlet. Stars and sparks, all objects seemed cut into teeth or covered with points, all white objects surrounded by colored rings. Of stars and sparks, all white objects surrounded by rings, in which yellow predominated, if she looked into a cup the edges appeared yellow and it seemed as if small animals moved in the interior, at intervals muscae volitantes and objects appeared strongly illuminated and to have colored edges. Blindness; and senselessness, wandering about the town; they lost in succession sight, hearing and speech. They carried the jug upside down to the mouth. They ran against all objects in their way, with open, wild eyes.
Clinical Spasms of the ocular muscles, eyes distorted or rolling. Illusions of vision, objects seem large, or double, or indistinct.
Ears
Sharp stitches into ears. Tearing in cartilages, (<) pressure. Pain, (<) l.; sudden indescribable, in r. towards evening. Obstruction on hawking. Ringing. Loud noises. Roaring. Hearing weakened; lost.
Nose
Jerking downward in root. Pinching in root and in zygomatic processes. Dryness; at root, with pain, mucus mixed with blood. Heat internally and externally. Sneezing; frequent, without coryza; frequent, with sensation of approaching coryza, which developed itself. Increased secretion of thick tenacious mucus mixed with blood. Bleeding; relieving head. Smell diminished. Smell and taste lost.
Face
Red; and distended; and excited; and congested; F. and neck red, swollen and dry; dark red, with blue lips; brownish-red, swollen. Pale; and sunken; and covered with sweat; with blue lips. Bluish. Livid; and distorted, lurid, mouth open. Brown and turgid. Frequent changes in color. Distorted. Bloated, and neck. Dull, haggard look. Intoxicated look. Confused look in morning. Twitching; of cheeks. Trismus. Pain in upper jaw and in bone of zygoma. Chewing impeded. Risus sardonicus. Lips distorted; drawn obliquely, the drawing soon extended over face, then over whole body. Blisters on lower lip; white B. on lips; painful fever B. on lip. Lips, tongue and mouth appeared thick. Margins of lips dry.
Mouth
Teeth. T. and all mouth covered with yellowish mucus in morning, taste disgusting. Gnashing. Grinding, with protrusion of tongues, which were shaken to and fro with trembling movement. Tearing in morning, with rush of blood to head as if spitting of blood were imminent; T. in gum, (<)entrance of cold air. Looseness, aching and tingling. Pain in upper, with swelling of l. gum; P. as if teeth would fall out, (<) chewing. Jerking pain in a hollow T. and on biting on the T. sensation as if too long and loose. Painful drawing here and there in a single T., as if it would become hollow.
Tongue.- Put out slowly and with difficulty, swollen, brown and dry. White coat; or yellowish; T. coated at back. Pale, dry and rough. Dry; T. and lips dry, burning, they look like singed leather. Heavy. Numb in middle as if burnt, (<) talking and drawing in breath. Paralyzed. Speech confused; impaired; difficult and irrational; indistinct. Muttering inarticulate sounds. Dumb; and wild look.
Mouth in General.- A kind of scurvy. Pain as if suppurating in soft parts behind teeth, between cheeks and gums, in evening during febrile heat. Dryness; and of lips and fauces; of M. and fauces in morning, without thirst; and of fauces, with warmth; with disgusting taste, tongue coated yellow. Thick feeling. Slavering. Salivation; salt. Bloody saliva, with bloody, sweetish taste. Offensive odor; in morning on rising. Taste bitter; in morning; nauseous B.; sharp B., causing vomiting; metallic; pasty; flat, pasty.
Throat
Hawking of loamy, blackish mucus from fauces. Spasm. Angina and coryza. Constriction (Belladonna); impairing swallowing. Back part affected, he points to it as if something were sticking in it. Smarting at back. Scraping; with hoarseness; with roughness; S. and roughness of throat and tongue, with moist mouth; S. in throat and palate as after too much speaking. Dryness; of fauces; of soft palate; of fauces, with tickling; with contraction so that a swallow of tea threatened to suffocate him. Pressure as from a swelling. Swallowing difficult; impossible; l. from dryness of mouth and fauces.
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.