Itching of ball. Pupils contracted; and insensible; dilated. Lids, blinking; twitching; wide open; contraction as from heaviness of upper lids, with a gush of tears; drawing tearing; pressure in upper, (<) morning; pain in margins as if rubbed sore, (<) morning, and on touch; burning itching pain; itching towards inner canthus in evening; itching of forepart. Canthi purulent; external agglutinated in morning; l. external red in morning; smarting dryness in inner in morning in bed; pain as if sore and rubbed, also inner; biting in inner in evening in bed. Sticking above lids, with pressure; jerking S. extending from l. orbit through l. hemisphere of brain towards parietal bone and occiput after eating. Pain in r. brow on touch. Photophobia; in morning, with obscured vision. Presbyopia. Vision sensitive; cloudy; distorted; lost. Glistening flickering outside the field of vision, (<) l. side, in forenoon.
Clinical Infraorbital neuralgia, involving the face, with watering of eyes and running from the nose, numbness, caused by the abuse of coffee or liquor. Ciliary neuralgia. Catarrhal conjunctivitis, with great photophobia in the morning. Keratitis, even scrofulous, with excessive photophobia in the morning, so that the child buries its eyes in the pillow, the photophobia disappears later in the day. Extreme hyperaesthesia of the retina in the morning, the attempt to open the eyes is resisted and attended with gushes of tears. Amaurosis from alcohol or tobacco, with restricted field of vision. Asthenopia on account of retinal hyperaesthesia. Spasms of the lids. Atrophy of the optic nerve.
Ears
Sticking in morning in bed; S. externally in meatus; tearing sticking inward towards evening. Pinching and pain. Sharp thrusts. Itching within, through Eustachian tube, which compels frequent swallowing and disturbs the rest at night; I. within, with creeping, crawling. (Hollow feeling in morning, so that his words re-echo in his ears. (>) dinner.) Hearing sensitive. Ringing. Ringing hissing. Chirping as of locusts at night. Rushing as of a fueling machine, at night. Roaring in morning after rising; (R. and humming as of bees.).
Clinical Otalgia, intermittent pains, (<) going into a warm room or in bed. Deafness, with roaring, etc., auditory canal dry and sensitive, with coryza, itching in the Eustachian tube, headache, nausea, creeping chills, etc.
Nose
Nostrils wide open. Pain in anterior angles of nostrils as if ulcerated and as if cutting into a wound. Margins of nostrils sore as if ulcerated on moving nose, (<) evening. Nostril sensitive internally. Heat, with frequent premonitions of coryza. Obstruction and itching; O. in morning, with tensive pain in limbs. (Air passes through nose, but it is dry.) Sneezing; in morning in bed, but after rising sudden fluent coryza.
Coryza in morning and after dinner; C., with scraping in throat, crawling and scratching in nose and sneezing; with headache, heat in face, chilliness and much mucus in throat; dry in morning, with dryness of mouth. Fluent coryza in morning; during the day, stopped at night. Discharge of mucus from nostrils that seem obstructed by dry catarrh, also from one nostril. Discharge of mucus without coryza, D. of bloody mucus; of acrid fluid. Bleeding; clotted blood in morning. Smell acute; S. as of bad cheese; as of a smoking candle-wick; sulphurous; offensive breath through nose. disgusting odor to food and drink.
Clinical Coryza caused by dry, cold weather, with sneezing and stiffness in the nose, which seems dry, or there is sometimes a little watery discharges, (<) in the house, (>) open air. Often a valuable remedy in the beginning of a severe coryza, which is sometimes fluent during the day and stopped at night, or the stoppage may alternate between the nostrils, with somewhat acrid discharge. Coryza in nursing infants, preventing nursing.
Face
Pale; and earthy, yellowish, suffering. Dusky. Red; cheeks and eyeballs; cheeks, in morning after waking; and swollen; cheeks with heat and crawling here and there in them; r. side, upon which she was lying, and swollen, hanging down; livid. Expression anxious; suffering; excited. Distorted. Twitching; in evening after lying down; of r. side, as if drawn by a thread, in evening. Drawing on stooping. Tension about mouth, eyes and nose, with distention of these places. Drawing in masseter muscles, with stiffness. Masseter muscles sensitive.
Jaws, contraction like lockjaw; drawing tearing in J.; drawing pain in muscles; sensation in J. and masseters as before tetanus, or as if J. would be drawn together; tetanic rigidity. Lips wide open; ulcers in corners; ulcer painful to touch, on inside of lower (Ignatia); ulcer on red, with scab and burning pain; ulcerative scurf on margins, that when appearing causes stickling; crack in middle of lower; itching pimples above margin of upper; painful desquamation; stitches in morning; stickling on touching a hair in beard; sore sensation inside lower.
Clinical Facial neuralgia recurring periodically in the morning.
Mouth
Teeth. Falling out of sound, that had never been loose. Looseness; with pain caused by chewing, late in evening and in morning before rising; of a sound T., with pain when knocked against. Stitches; in an indefinite T. with drawing; in an upper incisor; burning, or pain like fire, on exposure to open air, with taking cold; after dinner, or beating pain, then tingling like painful buzzing, that extends to eyes and is (<) walking in open air, that also at times lasts into the night, when it is (>) wrapping cheeks warmly, when it reappears it always begins with sticking. Paroxysmal tearing in a hollow T., then in all upper T., then in all lower, then through bones of face into head and temple of same side, (>) sleep, renewed by cold water or food getting into a hollow tooth. Jerking and twisting screwing in ear; J. in various, always ending with a stitch, in open air; as if caused by swelling of gum; rhythmical with pulse, with swelling of gum. Burrowing on exerting mind and reflecting, towards evening, then pain in a gland below angle of lower jaw. boring gnawing, (>) drawing in cold air, (<) warm room. Drawing pain from warm drinks and soup; in a hollow t. if sucked with the tongue; (<) drawing in air with open mouth (Calcarea c.), with stitches in one row of teeth; now in an upper, now in a lower molar, then in other T. towards the front, (<) eating, at noon and evening, with red, hot spots on cheeks and throat, with complaining mood, full of reproaches and despondency. Sore pain, (<) exerting mind and reflecting; when walking in open air, (<) opening mouth. Pain in hollow T., extending into head, if air enters mouth. Pain as if air entered a hollow tooth, on breathing deeply in open air. Pain as if a T. were out of place and loose, on drawing in air with open mouth, with stitches. Pain in morning as from soreness of gum.
Gum. – Swelling; before dinner, with toothache; withdrawing pain; with toothache; with bubbling pain as if an ulcer would break; with bubbling pain as in an abscess, so that she could not eat; painful, with painful pimples on inside of lips and on tongue. g., mouth, tongue and palate slimy, with raw and sore feeling as from something acrid. Red. Ulcer over incisors, with drawing burning pain.
Tongue – White. Coated white, difficult to protrude. Painful blisters. Inflamed and contracted. Stitches in tip at noon on going to sleep. Dry. Itching on l. side of root. Heavy when talking. Speech difficult; and lisping. Unable to articulate any sound. Speech interrupted by sighs, weak, monosyllabic, often unintelligible; interrupted by spasms of limbs and spine (opisthotonos.)
Mouth and fauces covered with mucus in morning, with yellow, hard mucus in canthi. Swelling of palate, with pain in it and biting posteriorly; S. of roof of palate and uvula, as from adherent mucus, noticed especially on swallowing. Painful pimples on plate behind incisors. Sticking drawing pain in mouth, almost like a cramp, extending to inner ear, on chewing and compressing jaws. Dryness in morning, with out thirst as after alcoholic stimulants the previous evening; D. after midnight, as if tongue stuck to palate, without thirst, with much saliva in fauces; in forepart, (<) tip of tongue. Salivation; watery, after waterbrash. Profuse discharge on stooping. Saliva discharged in sleep discharged by jerks; bloody. Spitting of blackish, almost clotted blood at 2 A.M., and at 2 P.M., with peculiar taste, odor of blood in nose and blowing of blood from nose. Breath offensive (nitricum acidum); in morning (Pulsatilla); after dinner; sour.
Taste – Bad; in morning, though food and drink have a natural taste; in morning, (>) eating; low down in throat on hawking; as from hollow teeth, in morning. Sour (Ignatia); (<) morning; after swallowing food that had a natural taste; after food and drink; after drinking milk; to bread and rolls. Bitter (Pulsatilla, Sul.); in morning (Pulsatilla), though food and drink have a natural taste; on spitting out saliva; low down in throat on expectorating mucus from chest. Spoiled in mouth and nose almost sulphurous. As from a disordered stomach. Herby, to beer; nauseous, H., in throat, almost like throat of carrots. Slimy, composed of herby and metallic T. in morning, with ill humor and laxity. Smoky to bread. (Salt in morning.) (T. and odor about himself, sweetish, offensive.) Lost to food; to meat; to coffee; to milk 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.