The highest degree of intoxication is apoplexy, during which sensation and motion cease, while the activity of the heart and arteries continues.
A high degree of intoxication is a truly apoplectic condition.
The sad end of a deeply intoxicated person is most frequently apoplexy.
Coma, that changes to paralysis of the brain, in persons of an apoplectic habit.
By frequently repeated intoxication, a predisposition to apoplexy is developed.
Headache, sometimes with nausea and vomiting.
Pressing headache, causing stupidity.
Drawing in the head.
Dull, diffused headache, with a buzzing or rushing sound in the ears.
The temporal veins look full, and the temporal arteries beat rapidly and forcibly; afterwards, they seem exhausted and collapsed.
Sensation of fullness at the crown and back of the head, or at the temples, according to the kind of spirit taken (in two to eight minutes).
Eyes.
Eyes injected.
Eyes red.
Red, watery eyes (chronic).
Eyes fiery, brilliant. Eyes fixed and wild.
Shy, more oblique than fixed look.
Rigid, gleaming look.
Eyes bright and animated, or suffused and soft.
Eyes red and excited.
Chronic inflammation of the eye, in consequence of which, spots in the eye and dimness of vision.
Catarrhal inflammation of the eyes (in hard drinkers).
Linings and margins of the lids congested.
Roughness of the margins of the lids (granulations) in hard drinkers.
Contraction of the pupils, drooping lids, and coma.
Effusion and swelling below the eyes.
Conjunctiva more or less jaundiced (chronic).
Injected eyeballs.
Yellow tinge of the sclerotica.
Veins of the sclerotic membrane turgid and prominent.
Pupils dilated, sluggish, rarely contracted.
Dilated and almost insensible pupils.
Enlarged pupil.
Pupil enlarged, not entirely insensible to the light.
Entire insensibility of the iris.
Pupils dilated, and afterward contracted.
Contraction of the pupils, with drooping lids, and coma.
Perception of light lessened.
Vision weak; cannot use eyes; objects flicker and become dim, indistinct; cannot read or write.
Aversion to light.
Flickering before vision, as if a veil suddenly drawn before the eyes, which at last becomes thick and black, especially on exerting vision.
Black before eyes, especially on suddenly moving head after changing position on rising up, with vertigo; patient fears falling, and grasps at surrounding objects.
Sparks before the eyes.
Flashes of light before eyes.
Muscae volitantes, in clouds, before the eyes (chronic).
Double vision.
Visual hallucinations (chronic).
Ears.
Dryness in external meatus.
Acute sense on hearing.
Hearing blunted.
Perception of sound lessened.
Confusion on sounds.
Roaring in ears.
Roaring in ears, especially after spasms, or with vertigo.
Ringing in ears.
Buzzing or rushing sound in the ears, frequently though not always accompanied with dull, diffused headache (chronic).
Illusions of hearing.
Imaginary voices and sounds.
Symptoms worse when lying down, and in the quietude of the night.
Nose.
Redness of the nose and cheeks (chronic).
Redness of the nose, especially at the tip.
Vessels of the skin congested.
Swelling and inflammation.
Red pimples, or tubercles.
Lining membrane of the nares inflamed and ulcerated.
Bleeding of the nose.
Illusions of the sense of smell.
Face.
There was a relaxation of the muscles and stiffness of the skin of the face, forehead, and upper lip, so that the features fell.
Great flabbiness of the muscles of expression (chronic).
The physiognomy expresses amiable cheerfulness.
Face bloated, without expression; stupid, silly.
Violent cramp in the muscles of the lower part of the face, which sometimes dislocates the lower jaw.
Redness of the cheeks and nose (chronic).
Redness overspreads the face, and all the features melt into a smile.
Face bloated and heated.
Face red and swollen.
Face blue-black, or pale.
Color of the face sometimes unchanged, sometimes red, sometimes icteric, like the rest of the body.
Face muddy, red in spots, mottled.
Face earthy.
On the nose and other parts of the face, warts and eruptions appear, of different colors and sizes.
Tetter in the face.
Eruption in the face; a dark-red, ugly, shining redness of the skin on the nose, forehead, cheeks, sometimes on the chin, finally in other places, often covered with tetter, bluish-red or white vesicles and pimples.
Skin mostly dry and rough, with broad, red, raised clusters in the skin; itching pain; desquamation slight, or wanting.
Forehead serene.
Mouth.
Grinding the teeth.
Tongue fissured from middle to the edges, furred, or sometimes denuded of epithelium.
Papillae at tip of tongue enlarged and red.
Sore and dry condition of the tip of the tongue (after rum).
Perfect cleanness and moistness of tongue (chronic).
Dry, red, glazed tongue (chronic).
Thick yellow fur on tongue, especially at the back part (chronic).
Tongue coated.
Tongue covered with yellow slime in the middle, the margins clean.
White, and sometimes brownish coating on the tongue.
Tongue smooth and red, with tendency to stick to the teeth or roof of the mouth.
Tongue feels thick, is tremulous, partially paralyzed, causing one to stammer.
Tongue moved with difficulty.
Sudden trembling in tongue and lips.
Convulsive motions of the tongue, causing stammering and inarticulate speech.
Trembling and twitching in the coated tongue.
Dry state of the mouth.
Breath offensive, especially during digestion.
Peculiar, foul breath; smell quite impossible to describe, or to mistake when once it has been smelt; quite unlike the odor of the alcoholic liquor itself, and may be separately distinguished even when the latter is also present (chronic).
Offensive smell from the mouth.
Offensive breath in the morning.
Mouth filled with black saliva.
Rising of tasteless or foul liquid in the mouth.
Sometimes frothing at the mouth.
Froth in mouth.
Foul taste (chronic).
Sour, saltish, or bitter taste in the mouth, in the morning.
Bitter taste in the mouth.
Illusions of the sense of taste.
Stammering speech.
Muttering; he utters inarticulate sounds.
Throat.
Throat red, and feels stiff.
Granulations on the posterior wall of the throat, also on the base of the tongue.
Engorged appearance of the veins of the fauces.
Redness, dryness and heat.
Aphthous ulcers in the throat.
Gangrenous ulcers.
Throat full of tough mucus, difficult to hawk up.
Collection of mucus, sometimes bloody.
Spasms in pharynx and oesophagus.
Paralysis of pharyngeal muscles.
Paralysis of the muscles of deglutition.
Burning sensation back of the sternum.
Soreness felt from the throat down to the stomach after swallowing solid food, or very hot or cold drinks.
Sensation as if something lodged in the oesophagus.
Feeling of contraction or stricture, preventing the discharge of flatulence by belching.
Strong efforts to clear the throat, or belch or vomit, bring up blood or bloody mucus.
Hawking causes vomiting.
Swallowing with burning and painful sensation.
Swallowing painful.
Spasmodic dysphagia.
Stomach.
Desire for pepper, mustard, and other heating articles.
Longing for spirituous liquors, and, if not speedily gratified, becomes raving, or has convulsions.
At first no desire to eat; afterwards, ravenous hunger.
Loss of appetite.
Desire to eat entirely lost.
Aversion to food and alcoholic drinks.
Thirst before breakfast and through the day.
Thirst often excessive; often none.
Eructations, sour or foul.
Eructations of water.
Sour eructations.
Frequent eructations.
Eructation like rotten eggs.
Singultus.
Nausea, and vomiting mucus and water.
Morning, nausea, or vomiting.
Vomiting mornings.
Vomiting after eating or drinking.
Vomiting of sour and offensive-smelling matters.
Excessive vomiting (vomitus crapulosus).
Vomiting in the morning hours of a tough mucus, resembling white of egg; stringy, with flow of saliva.
Vomiting of sour matter.
Hematemesis (rare) (chronic).
Fullness and distension after eating.
Inflammations of the stomach and intestines.
Burning heat in stomach.
Peculiar burning sensation in stomach, best allayed by water.
Pressure in the stomach.
On waking, a more tickling, contractive sensation in the region of the stomach, which spreads from there to the chest, causing shortness of breath, and irritation to cough.
Sense of oppression and weight.
Weakness of the stomach.
Heat and burning in the epigastric region.
Constriction, uncomfortable tension and pressure in epigastrium.
Tension in epigastrium.
Oppression in the pit of the stomach, that is often aggravated to intense anxiety.
Abdomen.
Sense of pressure in both hypochondria.
Heat, weight, and soreness in the region of the liver.
Inflammation of the liver.
Swelling of spleen.
Recti muscles of abdomen become rigid and prominent.
Ascites.
Rumbling and growling in intestines.
Inflammation of the intestines and stomach.
Flatulence.
Colic (colica crapulosa).
Colic pains.
Intestinal hemorrhage (rare) (chronic).
Stool and Anus.
Hemorrhoids and varices.
Bleeding hemorrhoids (chronic).
Paralysis of anus.
Faeces compact, knotty, blackish, or light-gray.
Stool blackish, bilious, slimy, and bloody, or thin and clay colored.
Diarrhoea bilious or mucous, or mealy.
Diarrhoea (diarrhoea crapulosa; cholera crapulosa), but also constipation.
Diarrhoea often alternating with constipation.
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.