Vertex. Pain extending to occiput, with pain in temples, obliging him to lie down, with pain over orbits, cannot bear to raise eyelids, feeling as if something heavy were pressing out the brain; pain in V. and forehead, obliging him to lie down, (>) sitting up in bed and by strong pressure; stupid, extending down through head, in evening. Bearing down on V.; (<) l. lobe of brain. Expansive sensation. Pressure outward, and in temples.
Sides. Shooting through r., extending into nape, at 11 A.M., (<) rising or walking; paroxysmal, in r. eminence, leaving a bruised feeling, the pain (>) evening by close attention to a sermon, renewed by going into open air. Sharp pain in r; in l., then r. Lateral headache, deep in brain; lateral, in morning, with fear of opening his eyes lest it should increase the pain; beginning when riding in a carriage; caused by the crying of a child; deep in brain, (>) eating. Pain in r. side; indefinable, in r., all day, with feeling as if it would increase, but it did not.
Occiput. Pain in l. Stimulus in O. and neck, extending through head to eyes, in afternoon and evening. Weak feeling as if paralyzed through back to lower limbs, the feeling in legs was as if asleep. Creeping numbness in O. and down spine, between 8 and 9 P.M., (<) between hips.
Eyes
Bloodshot all the forenoon, with burning in them. L. red and swollen. Inflammation of r., then l., sclerotic red, dry and swollen, eyes feel best when closed. Sleepy-like. ” Were working.” Shooting in r., at 1 P.M.,. with drawing in it. Drawing, twisting sensation; at 3 P.M.; from 11 A. M. till 8 P.M. Drawing at 6 P.M. Smarting, with sore feeling in lids. Pain in l.; in l., with muscae volitantes; P. on attempting to use binocular vision, as in reading, with burning and straining, so that one eye must be closed, (>) a weak concave glass. Pressure, with muscae volitantes, dark and light long worms or snakes, also tremulous vision. Heaviness; at 2 P.M. with Dullness. Sensitive. Weak feeling.
Lachrymation. Pupils contracted; in morning; by small and rapid jerks, with sensitiveness to light; then mydriasis, (<) morning, seeming to depend on fatigue of sphincter, which was relieved during the day by the reflex stimulus of light; dilated.
Ball. Intermittent darting outward in r., (>) pressure on eyes, lasting from 6.30 till 10 P.M., then shifting to supraorbital ridge and lasting till 12, next day on rising at 7 A.M., darting outward in eyes, (>) breakfast, on sitting down to study at 7 P.M. same pain in l. eye and superciliary ridge, (>) pressure and moving about. Drawn, twisted sensation at 8 P. M., (<) r., next day at 7 P.M. Pain; in r. ball and frontal bone in evening, with stitches and with pain running obliquely into temporal bone, next day pain deep in over top of ball, ran up from inner canthus to r. frontal eminence, then down obliquely outward into temple, the same returned in eye and forehead but was more general in forehead, (>) motion out of doors; nervous, extending along supraorbital nerves and over half of head. Painful tension, partly in equator of ball, partly in ciliary region. Burning all the morning.
Twitching of lids; upper; upper, (<) l.; upper at 4 P.M. Contracted sensation in lids, with difficulty in opening them and lachrymation when wide open, difficulty in keeping l. open. Lids heavy. Lids immovable. Tight feeling in ciliary region, as if something were creeping about in it, with sharp pain, (<) reading, vision confused, spasms of accommodation in l. and diminished power in r. eye, type looked smaller with r. than with l. eye, afterwards type now clear, now indistinct, coinciding with sensation as if ciliary muscle were irregularly contracted, with sudden gloom, as of an eclipse of the sun, (<) when l. eye only was open, astigmatism. Pain in posterior part of orbit, extending back into brain, preventing reading and causing nausea.
Vision. Blurred, then dull pain over and between eyes. Dim; when walking; for objects more than a foot distant, all objects seem nearer and larger, afterwards with contracted pupils and on reading heaviness and fatigue of eyes. Double. Accommodation recovers before the pupil; recovers before the myosis, the approximation of the near point lasts longer than that of the far point. Jerklike approximation of far point, then of near point. Letters seem in constant motion, and can only be seen at a large visual angle. Muscae volitantes; black and a white; bright marks when looking at an object, and when reading dark, yellowish spots covering one or two letters.
Clinical Physiologically this drug has been used to tear adhesions of the iris, especially when complicated with ulceration of the cornea at the margin, on account of its extraordinary power to contract the pupil. Creatively it has been used in myopia for spasm of the ciliary muscle, especially with symptoms of irritability, pain after using the eyes, flashes of light, black specks etc. Torpor of the retina. Nearsightedness from a blow, a rigidity of the muscles of accommodation so that the patient can only see very near objects. Increasing myopia.
Ears
Shooting in l. at 3 P.M.; in r. at 6.45 P.M. Sharp pain in r. with stiffness of neck, next day a little soreness. Pain in r. when writing. Hammering in r. in evening, with feeling in external ear as from a hot wind. Painful pressure on tympani. Discomfort in r., with inclination to bore in with finger, and after removal of wax and with eructation, a sudden pain from throat along Eustachian tube to middle ear, leaving stabbing pain in middle ear, the desire to bore in occurred repeatedly every evening. Crawling in l. Fulness. Stopped feeling. Partial deafness of r. Sensitive to every sound. Singing or tuning like escaping steam, at night after lying down. Buzzing in r. at 7 P.M., with ringing.
Nose
Twitching, with involuntary expansion of nostrils. Fever- blisters in and around l. nostril. Boil inside of r. nostril, with pain extending to eye and r. side of head, scanty discharge after breaking. Feeling as if a cold were coming on, smarting, tingling and sneezing. Contracted feeling in wings and in upper lip, (>) rubbing. Itching in;l. nostril in morning, with tingling and moisture, return of the itching in afternoon with dryness, again in evening with moisture. Stuffed and hot. Sensation as if it would bleed at 4 P.M., with heat in it; sensation as if it would bleed at 2 and 8 P.M., and the peculiar taste that goes with it. Sneezing. Fluent coryza. Bleeding from r. side in evening, next day from l. side in morning and at supper, with headache.
Face
Red; on rising from a seat, with pain. Pale. Tired look in morning. Occasional darting pain in r. malar-bone and ramus of jaw. Neuralgia in r. side. Contracted sensation in l. side, with numbness. Feeling as in spasms, (>) opening mouth, at times extending into neck, when it was the worst the l. hand became numb and it bothered me to hold on to anything, noticed most when looking at my watch. Pain in mastoid processes; in r. lower jaw; in side of jaw where there were teeth; like toothache in r. upper jaw ( from which all the teeth had been extracted).
Mouth
Teeth feel rough in morning, not, (>) brushing. Quivering sensation in teeth, as if resting on the sounding-board of a piano. Tongue rough to touch; T. coated, (<) towards root; coated white, with oily feeling in it and bad taste; scalded feeling, next day only on l. side, two days afterwards on r. side; raw feeling, (<) swallowing; felt sore on tip at 4 P.M., and rough; sore, rough and dry; sore on l. side, with difficult motion of it as if stiff; smarting at end; dryness in tip and in lips, with smarting; numbness and tingling smarting in T. and lips, with constant desire to moisten them. Felt a sluggishness of articulation, and to avoid any show of this made a strong effort to speak slowly and firmly.
Roof of yellowish copper color at 9 P.M., with feeling as if covered with patches of loose skin. Running out of mucus. Thick, lathery saliva. Salivation. Taste bad all day; bad in morning on rising, as if I had been in a close room all night; bad, with salivation; brassy, with salivation; metallic at 9 P.M.; like creosote in morning on waking.
Throat
Submaxillary gland tender and tumefied. Clear mucus at 6 P.M. Feeling as if a ball ascended. Pain extending to l. ear at 3 P.M. on swallowing. Soreness at 2 P.M., with constricted feeling on swallowing, S. next day at 5 P.M.; S. at 8 P.M., (<) swallowing; in back part in evening; in evening, tonsils and soft palate inflamed, dark red, with stinging; at 9 P.M., with feeling of a fish bone in it, swallowing of saliva painful; in a spot on r. side, (<) swallowing; on swallowing. Raw, scrapy burning at 9 P.M., on swallowing. Burning scraping rawness, with constriction on swallowing. Smarting of l. tonsil. Fulness.
Constriction in evening when swallowing; at 7 P.M., with soreness posteriorly in pharynx and painful swallowing of saliva, throat dry at 10 P.M., next day the pain and constriction of pharynx continued, with ulcers with yellow centres on r. side of pharynx, behind tonsil, and redness of posterior nares, afterwards swallowing difficult, ulcers (<) r. side, pain (<) r. side, afterwards with elongation of uvula; C. in upper part, with difficulty in eating, (>) before breakfast is eaten, injection of posterior superior part of mouth; C., with difficult swallowing, tonsils enlarged, uvula elongated, speaking painful, posterior part of tongue painful to touch. Gone feeling in oesophagus. Inability to swallow.
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.