Forehead. Stitches over l. eye; over eyes every morning; in eminences, with sharp pain; in l, eminence, at times throbbing, at 4 P.M., (<) evening, and waking him at night, with feeling as if it closed eyes; pain above eyes, more S. than pressing, after eating. Pressure in forepart of head and upon eyes, that were then immovable. Pain; every morning; with heaviness and with darting pains in ears and vertigo; drawing, above l. eye; acute drawing upward P. from F. Constriction externally above l. eye. Compression anteriorly in afternoon.
Temples. Stitches; in r.; in l. in evening. Pain; drawing, in r.; sticking beating, in l. in afternoon; throbbing; throbbing, in r. in morning on waking, with nausea. Drawing in muscles. Heaviness, with frequent chilliness.
Vertex. Sticking as if it would tear head asunder every day, (<) afternoon, obliging her to lie down and preventing sleep; boring S. in evening. Pressure as with the thumbs, and in temples and eyes.
Sides. Twitching in l. hemisphere of brain, extending to temples; T. backward in lower part of l. hemisphere of brain. Sticking in r., and in occiput, that even was score to touch. Throbbing pain in l. in afternoon; in l. towards morning, beginning near vertex, descending to region of l. ear, then gradually over vertex to r. side of head, but still worse on l., she felt as if she could beat the head to pieces, (>) about breakfast. Bruised pain in r. Perceive and drawing bone-pains in l., even i teeth and meatus auditorius. Drawing, at one time above r. orbit, at another in region of l. ear.
Occiput. Sticking in protuberances, extending to lower jaw; S. in l. side during breakfast, so that head was drawn backward and respiration impeded sudden, in r. side in evening, then another kind of headache in occiput, both (>) sleep. Pain, (>) slight exertion, especially thinking; bruised. Throbbing.
Scalp. Falling of hair (Graphites, Sepia). Offensive scurf. Scabby, moist, itching eruption. Stitches and drawing. Sensitiveness; in evening, even the cap oppresses him, and anxiety. Pain in spots on touch; P. in roots of hair on vertex when touched; suppurative P. on touch. Pain as from subcutaneous ulceration, heat, hot and throbbing pain, so that he could not well bear the weight of towel. Tension. Crawling about r. ear.
Clinical Headaches as if in the bones, feeling as if constricted by a band, (<) night (Mercurius). Falling of the hair, with humid eruptions. Moist, burning eruptions on the scalp.
Eyes
Yellowness about E., with red cheeks; Y., sickly look below E. in morning after rising, with a relaxed sensation. Red Wild, staring. Sunken. Acrid moisture. Puffiness about E. in morning on waking. Twitching below r. after dinner. Stitches. Punching. Pressure and itching; P. in l., with smarting; drawing; as form sand; as from pressure upon an ulcer; as from looking at the sun, with hard mucus, redness and itching. Biting. Smarting. Burning; during menses; and in l. temple; with excoriated feeling. Compression in r. Constriction in l. Dryness beneath upper lids. Stickiness as from hardened matter. Sensation as if full of tears.
Lachrymation; of r. in open mild air; (<) reading, with pains in eyes; and itching. Pupils dilated. Redness of white. Dark spots on cornea. Conjunctivitis of r. Stitches externally near l. ball, extending to inner canthus. Lids, swelling; S. of upper, with itching pimples upon it; agglutination of r. over night; twitching; trembling of r.; pressure in evening; periodic pressure on inner surface, (<) lower, with blinking and sensitiveness of eyes to light; burning in morning difficulty in raising in morning. Canthi, dry mucus; pressure like sand in outer; itching in inner.
Vision. Double; of horizontal objects at some distance (compare Aurum, Ka. cy., etc.). Obscured; when reading; before r. Obliged to stop reading in the twilight sooner than usual. Short-sighted. Eyes weak and hurt as if weary. Sensitive to light. Blinded on looking intently at anything; B. by the daylight as usually in evening by candle-light; suddenly in open air, head confused, his thoughts go hither and thither and he is faint. Wavering. Sensation as if cobwebs were floating before eyes by candle- light, (>) closing or moving them. The halo around the candle-light increase. Of black spots; of a green spot near every latter when reading; of gray spots at some distance before eyes, preventing distinct vision. Of sparks then blackness, in four attacks during the day.
Clinical Ulcerations of the cornea. Syphilitic iritis, (<) lying down, feeling as if water were running form both eyes. Opacities of the cornea.
Ears
Swelling of glands behind and beneath l. at 6 P.M. (>) warmth of bed, with sticking and tearing in them extending through ear. Soreness behind l. Jerking in meatus. Stitches; in r. when pressing on forehead; in r., with roaring. Tearing, now in r. tragus, now in l. Pinching. Pain, then stopped sensation; cramp- like P.; as if something in it would burst; in l. as if distended; as if drum were pressed inward. Drawing in r. cheek; in meatus externus. Dry sensation in the swollen E. Throbbing in drum. Itching in E. Itching heat in E. Sudden closure of r. as if stone-deaf.
Hearing blunted. Cracking when chewing (breakfast). Ringing, with stopped feeling, and for a few minutes after trying to sing, deafness. Roaring; in l. Sudden noise in l. like the spitting of a cat. Loud reports. Humming; as if water were in them. Reechoing of her own voice (Causticum, Phosphorus).
Clinical Difficult hearing and obstruction of the Eustachian tube. Caries of the mastoid process, syphilitic or mercurial.
Nose
Sore, nostril ulcerated (Aurum, Graphites, Mercurius); S. in nostrils, and scabby (K-bi.). Redness of tip and scabby vesicles on it. Stitches on touch; S. in root, that s distended, (<) snoozing and coughing. Sore feeling in nostrils; in wings. Itching in nostrils. smarting. Constriction, and in malar-bones and about eyes. Burning. Stoppage; of l. nostril; in morning on waking, with trickling of water. Sneezing; every day, without coryzas; during the day; when coughing; with prickling tingling; with crawling in nose and sensation as if would bleed; with chilliness, then fluent coryza; violent;: violent, in morning and evening without coryza.
Coryza, (<) night, with swelling of nose and upper lip and cough; with soreness within nose and bleeding (Graphites); with cough; with headache; with water-brash; violent, with pressure downward in head. Stopped coryza; at night; with stoppage of nose, the nasal mucus discharged only through choanae with dryness of throat and nose, with swollen, inflamed alae, Fluent coryza; and the same time stopped, with difficult breathing, even through mouth, with sticking in throat on swallowing; with tearing in all limbs; with hoarseness and cough, with stitches in throat on every paroxysm; with roughness of throat breathing, not on swallowing, and oppression of chest. Discharge of mucus; offensive yellow matter; thick, corroding; of acrid water.
Bleeding; in morning; blowing out of blood in morning; at night; from weeping; black. Disagreeable odor from N., evening after lying down (Pulsatilla, Help.).
Clinical Nasal catarrh, the discharge mostly passing into the pharynx, with a feeling of obstruction. Herpetic eruption on the wings or tip of the nose, the tip is red and covered with vesicles. The nasal discharges are mostly fetid, associated with a feeling of obstruction, or sometimes with dropping of water from the nostrils.
Face. Yellow; greenish. Pale; and bluish, pinched; and veins turgid, with cyanotic lips; with internal heat in it, (<) eyes, so that he could hardly keep them open. Red. of leaden hue in morning. Swelling of cheek and upper lip. Sunken. Expression anxious; and worn. Drawn. Twitching of one or another muscle, (<) masseters; T., with distortion of visage. Sticking; on lying down, (>) rising. Tearing deep in muscles or in periosteum of malar-bone woke him after midnight; T. in malar-bones as if they would be torn asunder. Pain in bones; cramplike, in bones, (<) cheek-bones. Bruised sensation in bones. Drawing in r. cheek, extending towards nose. Painful pulsation in l. side.
Jaws. Cracking of joint when chewing and eating. Jerking in r. lower, extending forward form region of ear. Sticking in region of joint. Tearing in angle of lower, extending into cheek-bones. Pain in lower in evening, with weakness; cramplike, in r.; as in secondary syphilis; as from Mercury; as from Mercury; and on occiput, the gums being red and enlarged. Could not open readily when requested to protrude his tongue, which he did not do.
Lips. Ulcers in corners, with scabs (Graphites); U. in corners, with sticking in them (Hepar) and soreness of tongue, palate and inside of gum; U. on lower. Swelling; of lower; of upper lip and gum; with itching; with burning pain. Itching eruption on upper. Corrosive itching pimples. Stocking in upper on touch. Cutting in upper. Smarting pain in a wart that had been on upper for eight years, if bleeds on washing and is painful on touch. Feels as if covered and gives a sour taste when touches with tongue. Itching of upper.
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.