Burning in outer canthus often during the day for an hour. Itching in l. outer canthus, with sore pain after rubbing it; I. in inner in morning after waking, and after rubbing smarting and lachrymation, then sore feeling in outer canthi, which were agglutinated. Itching smarting in l. inner canthus, with lachrymation and reddened conjunctiva. Pustules on l. conjunctiva, and before eyes a mist in which floated black objects like tadpoles with their heads pointing to the centre, at 7 A.M., (>) 11 A.M. (<) 2 P.M., the mist causing nausea. scurf in brows. Sticking as if in bone, extending from under r. lid down to upper canine tooth. Tearing in orbits, (<) l. Pain in bone above eyes at 9.30 P.M. Creeping on inner margin of l. orbit.
Vision. Intolerance of reflected light from bright objects. Dazzled by daylight, which caused headache. Dim; when writing; of one-half on an object. Of fiery zigzags. Of a zigzag circle of colors when looking into the light. Of sparks, with weakness. Of black spots; passing in all directions, all day. White, flickering. Of a green halo around candle-light. Vanished; during menses, (>) lying down, with weakness.
Clinical Supraorbital neuralgia, usually r., associated with heaviness of the upper lids; the attack is brought on by fatigue or anxiety. Conjunctivitis, scrofulous. Paralysis of the upper lid, with uterine disease or irregular menstruation. Retinal anemia, with sudden vanishing of sight. Asthenopia. Asthenopia, with uterine complaints, worse in the evening. A general aggravation of eye troubles twice a day, morning and evening, will be found quite important; this is true only of the asthenopia, but also of the inflammatory symptoms. Blepharitis ciliaris. Tarsal tumors. Granular lids. Phlyctenular conjunctivitis. Pustular keratitis, It has been found useful in arresting the progress of cataract in women.
Ears
Swelling at orifice of external meatus, pressure near antitragus causes sticking; S. or r. parotid in evening; of parotid, with stitches and on moving head tensive pain. Sticking; in;. and in l;. cheek; in the weak one; through l. parotid; drawing outward, in middle. Tearing in prominence back of r.; in l., as if were being torn out. Pain; in l. in morning, on waking; in evening; at night; in r. after midnight, after walking in wind, and next night after midnight, (>) warmth and sleep, with coldness over head; extending outward at 4.30 P.M., when walking in a cold wind, next day at 5 P.M. dragging in ears extending into parotid and mastoid process from walking in wind, (>) warmth of room, next day earache at 5 P.M. from open air, (>) entering warm room; sore; as from subcutaneous ulceration in external meatus on putting finger into it; drawing in r., with heat.
Pressure inward below and in front of ears; P. outward when straining at stool. Feeling as if plugged up, with deafness. Creeping in r. Tingling. Itching in the weak one; I. in r. at night, with moisture in it; with discharge of pus; with roaring and accumulation of purulent whitish cerumen.
Sensitiveness to noise. Loud sounds and humming. Crackling before E. as from the rattling of papers. Singing before E. Whizzing and beating; W. before E. in evening when writing, interpolated with whistling. Roaring in r. at night, with pulsative blowing; R., then she cannot hear with it; R., with whizzing and sensation as if stopped; deep-toned, synchronous with pulse, at night. Clucking noise on rising from stooping. Noise in r.
Nose
Swollen, inflamed, and nostrils ulcerated; S., in flamed and painful. Ulcer in nostril. Nostrils scabby. Sticking in tip on touch. Pain at root. Bruised feeling in r. side of median line of tip of nose and of chin, next day the spot on the nose was red. Soreness and rawness; S. of l. wing; sore pain, (<) inspiration; at tip, then eruption there; S. feeling around r. wing with raw feeling, but thick yellow discharge from that nostril, with rawness in posterior nares. Stuffed, in evening discharge of watery, colorless mucus. Obstructed at night, (<) r. nostril; O., and difficult breathing; and discharge of hard mucus; suddenly in morning. Dryness (Natrum mur.); and in fauces; of l. nostril, with swollen feeling, yet without coryza. Tingling in l. nostril, with ineffectual inclination to sneeze. Itching in nostrils, with soreness on scratching.
Clinical Nasal polypi. Nasal catarrh, with discharge of solid pieces of solid pieces of mucus from the posterior nares. Dry catarrh in l. nostril.
Sneezing; every day at 6 A.M. in bed almost without coryza. Coryza, with continual snuffling; C., with diarrhoea; with headache all day, vertigo and tearfulness; with sore throat and rawness in chest, headache and toothache, (<) eating. Dry coryza; in l. nostril; with roaring in head and ears; with prickling in forehead and eyes, constant irritation to cough and dry cough in sleep. Fluent coryza; with sneezing preceded by crawling in nose; with pain in occiput and painful drawing in hips and thighs. Viscid mucus. Discharge yellow; thick yellow; of yellow water after blowing, with cutting in forehead; blowing out a piece of yellowish-green skin with blood at the edges; bloody mucus on blowing. Plugs. Blowing out of blood; strings of blood. Bleeding; in morning after rising; evenings during menses; in evening on blowing it (Carbo-v.); appearing and disappearing suddenly. Smell acute.
Face
Yellow, and whites of eyes (Lycopodium, Natrum mur.). Y. spots and Y. saddle across upper part of cheeks and nose; Y. around mouth. Pale; in morning, with sickly look and dim red eyes. Red; and flushes of heat. Swelling. Many black pores. Tearing on r. malar- bone below temple; in l. cheek, extending over ear towards occiput. Crampy pain in bones. Drawing pain, with swelling of cheek. Pain in malar and nasal bones. Sticking in l. lower jaw and in glands underneath, (<) touch. Tearing in upper jaw; in lower, below incisors; in joint, in front of ear. Jaws seemed as if they could not be opened when chewing, and as if joint would crack.
Lips. Herpetic eruption. Eruption in corner, with pain on touch scurfy E. on red border after a journey in the cold. Swelling of lower in morning. Pimples in centre of red border of upper; moist P. on margin of upper. Painful pustule in middle of lower. Painful ulcer on inside of lower, the pain (>) cold water. Vesicles sore to touch, or r. side of upper. Cutting in upper. Lower feels sore inside and is full of painful blisters. Sore pain on lower near r. corner; s. and smarting and disposed to crack. Dryness; and cracks. Tension in lower.
Clinical Facial neuralgia during pregnancy; intermittent, severe only at night.
Mouth
Teeth. Quick decay. Bleeding in morning, Loose and painful, and gums bleed easily when spitting; lower incisors loose. Sticking; in incisors; in upper incisors; in second r. upper molar; in l;. upper bicuspid about 8 A.M.; in l. molars, (<) from 11 till 12 O’clock; and in jaw, extending to ear, preventing sleep at night, and during the day she had to tie a cloth over it. Tearing from 6 P.M. or 2 A.M. every day, with jerking; extending out through l. ear during and after eating. Drawing cutting. Jerking in lower molars; in teeth in afternoon at every fourth inspiration, (<) lying, with tearing and with ptyalism; from a draught of air in mouth or ear, then grumbling causing restlessness; in molars, (<) stooping; rheumatic, through T. and forehead. Wrenching pain in all. Digging in upper. Gnawing in posterior molars. Aching; in morning after rising, from a draught of air; at night, preventing sleep, in morning she was so agitated that though weak she could not sleep; during menses, with throbbing in gums; when biting and on pressure of tongue; on touch and when talking; in all, (<) a hollow molar, which pains as if elongated and swollen, them swelling of gums and cheeks; in old roots, with sensitiveness to cold; in molars, with pain in submaxillary glands; in a r. upper molar after eating, extending into forehead, head, cheeks and both rows of r. teeth, (>) evening after going to bed; shifting. Elongated feeling in incisor. Beating pain, becoming sticking, with rapid decay; B. in molars extending over cheeks towards occiput, at night waking him frequently; sticking, in roots of several, renewed on entering room after walking in cold air, after eating and biting, (<) touch of anything warm, with burning in gums, afterwards the tooth turned black and decayed. Drawing in upper molars; in lower back molars; if anything hot or cold is taken into mouth; when air go into it, not when in cold air; from molars to forehead at night, waking him frequently; in hollow, extending into ear, (<) cold water; extending into cheek, which swells, during menses; as from a cupping-glass. Grumbling in incisors; in molars at night. Sensitiveness to cold air. Painful heaviness in upper incisors. Tingling in upper incisors. Teeth on edge. Coldness in lower incisors; drawing, in single upper incisors.
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.