Vertigo; in morning, with headache; in morning, with heaviness and confusion of head as from loss of sleep; from morning till noon; at noon, with stunned feeling; after dinner; on sitting up in bed; when sitting and standing, (>) walking; after rising from stooping, with buzzing in head; with flushing heat; with weakness of head and abdomen so that she must lie down; so that he could not stand; in attacks, preceded by sharp pressure at root of nose and sensation of drawing together of eyes as by a cord, followed by nausea, faintness and trembling of hands; as if he would fall over, when standing, (<) occiput, not affecting eyes; as if he saw through a mist, after eating; as if he would have apoplexy, with anxiety and fear of falling headlong; as if head moved up and down in morning on waking, with similar floating of the images of his fancy, with semi-consciousness.
Forehead.- Pulsation perceptible to hand. Sticking, with drawing in it, and pain as if vertex were split in two; S., with tearing as if head would burst; tearing, in skin above l. brow; boring, above r. eminence. Tearing; in forepart; in l. eminence; in l. eminence after dinner; in sinciput after dinner, with throbbing; in forepart during supper, with crawling; in r. eminence, extending to orbit and upper lid; sticking, towards noon, with ineffectual inclination to sneeze. Sharp pain in a spot in evening; S. pain in morning on waking, be coming a pressure in temples. Pain; in sinciput; in r. eminence; l. side; every morning; in sinciput, at noon and in evening, with Dullness; in l. eminence after dinner; in sinciput after dinner, with Dullness extending into eyes; (<) stooping or mental work; with Dullness, rendering thought difficult; with impatience; across sinuses, with sensibility of cartilages of ear and nose; sudden, after ascending stairs, settling in r. frontal region; sudden, above r. eye, with pressure downward in lids; throbbing, in l. region, then in r. Pressure upon a spot in middle at times. Sensitiveness. Sensation as if air forced itself too sensitively into sinuses. Drawing and throbbing. Tension; in sinciput. Dullness, with pinching in root of nose; D., with constriction in bone beneath and in front of r. ear; in sinciput, with heaviness. heaviness; in evening during menses, with feeling as if head would be drawn backward.
Temples.- Sticking in l.; above r. at night, with tearing; inward suddenly in r.; intermittent, in r. Tearing; in r.; in r. or also just above it; after dinner, with stitches in r. ear; intermittent pinching; sticking; jerking above l. Pinching in l. pain; in l.; and in r. eye; in l.; (<) moving or jarring head, not noticed when the mind is occupied with something else, with feeling as if the pulse beat against a tender place; alternately in T. and occiput. Cramplike pressure in ward. Tightness.
Vertex.- Burning stitches in middle. Tearing in V. and above forehead; in V. and l. parietal bone; behind V.; drawing, in attacks, and more in forehead. Ulcerative pain on touch in evening.
Sides.- Tearing on r. near vertex; in r. half; in l. anterior half, above forehead; in r. and in teeth in afternoon; in r. after dinner, with sticking; drawing, in l. half. Boring in l. parietal bone; in r. side and occiput in evening; in r. parietal bone in evening when standing, with sensation of bursting; in r., with pain; drawing, in l. after dinner. Pain in l. half; temporary sharp, in l. Screwing-together pain in evening. Throbbing pain in r. in evening; in r., with twinging.
Occiput.- Sticking in a spot on O. Tearing in sides; in r. side when laughing; in r. side, with stitches on vertex. Gnawing in upper part; in r. protuberance, as by a mouse. Pain; in r. side; after walking in open air; extending to eyes; raging like the beating of waves in a spot in r. side in evening, with heat extending over vertex. Bruised pain. Pressing-asunder pain in r. side; in l. close to vertebrae. Drawing in l. side; D., with gnawing in forehead as from warms; dizzy, deep in r. side when sitting. Heaviness and Dullness. Vertigo as if he would fall to the left when walking, V. in evening when sitting and smoking as usual, with desire for stool.
Scalp.- Falling of hair. Itching pimples. Itching moist eruption on and above temples. Suppurating pain on one side. Pain on touching hair on vertex. Sore feeling in a spot on r. side; S. feeling, not affected by touch. Drawing on vertex; S. feels drawn together to one spot. Sensation as if hair bristled, (<) above l. ear. Sore itching in a spot in middle.
Clinical Neuralgic headaches, the result of brain fag, sometimes with blurring of one half of the vision, photophobia, vertigo, etc. Headaches extending from the forehead to the vertex and occiput, (>) hard pressure on sides of head, sometimes a feeling of a heavy weight on the top of the head, always (<) stimulants. Occipital headache, with feeling of a heavy weight dragging the occiput downward, sometimes associated with a heavy weight on the vertex, scalp sore, photophobia, restlessness, aggravation from alcoholic stimulants. Violent headaches in school children who are overtaxed, with soft pulse; some cases have been cured when there seemed to be decided symptoms of beginning meningitis. Hydrocephalus; a very valuable remedy in different forms, following infantile cholera or even idiopathic and apparently tubercular; the general indications are roaring in the head, starting in fright, base of the head hot, photophobia, tremulousness of the muscles, constant motion of the feet, sometimes curative even after convulsions have set in; (the late Dr. Dunham usually advised low triturations in these conditions); many brilliant cures are reported. Meningitis consequent upon suppressed exanthemata or during teething, always characterized by the peculiar hyperaesthesia of all the special senses, trembling, twitching, squinting, and even convulsions.
Eyes
Inflammation during menses. Turned outward. Moisture during the day, agglutination in morning. Stitch in l.; cutting, in r. Tearing in l. Pain as from sand, (<) evening and night, with lachrymation, even upper lid towards inner canthus was red and swollen, with inflammation and redness of r. conjunctiva, suppuration in inner canthus. Pain; in l. in evening; in l. when walking in open air; in l.; with uneasiness in it, often with weakness of head; tensive, in r., like rheumatism; as if pressed inward. Pressure; towards evening.
Burning in afternoon; in E. and lids in morning and evening, with dryness and pressure; with biting, photophobia and lachrymation ( (<) evening), with agglutination in morning; pressing when reading, (<) l. lid. Biting in l., (>) rubbing; sore, towards evening, (<) r.; prickling, in lower part of l. and below it, upon cheek. Feeling as if she had wept much. Constantly affected. Weak, sick feeling. Tickling as from dust in r. Itching; of l., (>) rubbing.
Lachrymation in morning on waking, also in open air. Twitching in l. ball. Dry feeling in ball. Sticking in r. ball. Aching in balls. Pupils alternately dilated and contracted, but usually dilated. Lid, twitching of l. lower; falling of upper and oedema of lower; sticking in r. lower and l. upper; pressure on margin of l. lower, near inner canthus; burning of l. as if too dry; sore feeling on r. upper; itching on margin of l. upper; paralysis of upper. Canthi, agglutination of inner in morning, with pressing sore feeling (Pulsatilla); sore feeling in inner, (Pulsatilla); soreness in outer, with biting pain; itching in inner with sticking and with cloudy vision; painful pressure in r. inner, with redness of conjunctiva; biting in r. inner, (>) rubbing. Jerking in l. brow. Sticking tearing in and above l. brow. Bruised sensation in orbit and bones of face.
Vision.- Dim; in morning after waking. Photophobia; with dim, watery eyes. Flickering. Objects appear elongated and at times double. Diplopia, (<) l. eye, then strabismus. Vanishing, with absence of mind; V. after dinner and when writing, with lachrymation and burning. Of fiery flakes floating in circles on looking at the sky. Of yellow, blue and green rings, with suffering look and sleepiness.
Clinical Pterygium, smarting, lachrymation, itching and burning, all the symptoms worse in inner canthus, etc. Catarrhal conjunctivitis, worse in inner canthus. Note the marked affinity of Zincum met. for the inner, and of Graphites for the outer canthi. It has been found useful in blurred vision, associated with the severe headaches of brain fag, neuralgic pain extending from over the eye to the occiput.
Ears
Wax in l. increased, thin and impeding hearing, the beating of the pulse is distinct and causes roaring in ear. Discharge from l.; offensive from l.; purulent from l., orifices swollen and hot, with left sided headache. Stitches; in r.; with itching; in l., close to lobule, with tearing; cutting-tearing, near r. drum. Tearing; in bone in front of l.; at times with itching, or in morning with crawling, or in evening with burning. Cramp in lobule of l.; in lobule of l. extending into neck, on boring finger into ear. Jerking pain from mouth along Eustachian tube; pinching J. Pain; bruised, in bone beneath and in front of r. on touch. Pinching drawing behind l. extending into lower jaw. Tickling in l., not (>) rubbing. Itching in r., (>) boring into it; in l., with feeling on putting finger into it as if fleas were jumping about.
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.