Pulse accelerated, increased in volume and power (after ten and twenty minutes); if previously slow and feeble or intermitting, the change will be very decided; the acceleration amounts to 20 to 25 beats per minute; it will take place suddenly and attain its maximum within one or two minutes; after being maintained fro half an hour a gradual decline takes place, and the heart soon returns to its usual state, and continues to beat as quickly and powerfully as before; just as the pulse rises a slight giddiness is often perceptible.
Pulse sank at first ten beats, but soon began to rise, and in an hour and a half had increased forty beats.
As moisture returns to the mouth, the pulse is observed to fall, and it now rapidly resumes its ordinary rate and character.
She was able to rise in the morning, when the pulse was frequent, small, and irregular, and she complained of lassitude.
Pulse 150, small, and weak (after one hour).
Pulse accelerated to 140, with increased tone, but diminished volume.
Pulse 138 (after one hour).
Pulse 136; heart’s action greatly increased (after one hour).
Pulse 130, but not so full (after ten minutes).
Pulse 130, and small.
Pulse 124.
Pulse 116 (after half an hour).
Pulse 112 (after one hour).
Pulse 112 (after one and a quarter hours).
Pulse 112; is hot and feverish (after three hours).
Pulse 112, lying down, Pulse had been taken until now when the prover was standing (after two hours).
Pulse 110, irregular, generally full, but varying much at intervals.
After twenty minutes, pulse 110, unchanged in volume and power.
After one hour, pulse 108, unchanged.
Pulse 108 (after forty-eight hours).
Pulse 106-110; regular, somewhat fuller; pulsations more defined (after fourteen hours).
Pulse 104 (after one hour).
Pulse 104; regular, not full, easily compressed; the single Pulsations not sharply defined (after three and a half hours).
Pulse 96, full and soft; has been full and soft for several hours (after twelve hours).
Pulse 86, full and soft (second day).
Pulse 76 (after twelve hours).
Pulse, 72; full, distinct (after twenty-four hours).
Pulse 60 (after thirteen hours).
Neck and Back.
Cold sensation along the spine.
Extremities in General.
Weakness of the limbs.
Partial paralysis of the arms and legs (after eight hours).
In proportion as the doses of Atropia augment, the limbs, and especially the lower, though still under control of the will, become heavy and inactive.
The feeling of numbness and heaviness in the limbs was so great that she feared the result of going to sleep lest she should never awaken.
Extremities cold.
Upper Extremities.
Constant, restless throwing about of the arms, hands, and fingers of both sides, similar to the movement in typhus delirium.
Continual opening and closing the hands, and grasping at imaginary objects in the air (first day).
Hands feel smooth and glassy (after ten minutes).
Hands feel dry and glossy (after two hours).
Slight numbness and prickling in the hands, extending to the tips of the fingers.
The prickling soon ceased, but the numbness continued and increased, till in a short time there was complete loss of sensation (first day).
Hands cold (after two hours).
Numbness of fingers, with partial loss of sensation; cannot tell when I am holding small objects in the hand (after two hours).
Numbness and partial loss of sensation in the fingers; feels as though he were holding a back in his hands, which he is afraid her will drop; upon taking a small object, as a pin, into his hand, it appears to him as though there were five or six of them (after one hour).
Lower Extremities.
Dragged the legs when compelled to walk (after two hours).
Stiffness in left knee and lower leg and in right great toe, though no pain (second day).
Has had slight jactitation of muscles of leg (after thirteen hours).
Has awakened several times in the night by spasmodic jerkings of the muscles of the legs (first night).
Frequently wakened from sleep by sudden kicking out of the feet.
Her “limbs felt like sticks;” thought she could not use them to walk across the room to sofa, but with aid did so with considerable difficulty.
Generalities.
After moderate doses the whole circulation is increased in force and rapidity.
The force of the larger arteries is good, and if the circulation was previously slow, we find that they are usually increased in volume as well as in tone.
Different parts of the body were affected with spasms.
In women slight occasional startings.
Occasional jactitation.
Convulsive trembling in one or another muscles but never cramp; as consciousness disappeared these movements became automatic, as carphology, convulsions.
For the past two hours has had occasional spasms of the voluntary muscles, particularly those of the extremities (after eight hours).
During the last half hour has had several slight spasms of the muscles of the limbs and one of the entire body (after four hours).
At times during the night when nearly lost in sleep, she would suddenly start as if frightened.
Jerkings of muscles, particularly those of the legs, arms, and face.
When attempting to drink from a glass, arm suddenly contracted and the water was spilled.
While walking, the flexor muscles of one or both legs would suddenly contract, throwing me to the ground; do not dare to walk across the room for fear of falling (second day).
Clonic cramp in face and extremities (moves arms forward in front of chest).
Clonic spasms of the biceps flexor cubiti and of the muscles of the jaw.
Spasms not diminished; could not hold a vessel of fluid in his hands nor carry it to his mouth. The spasms of the muscles above spoken of were increased by disturbing the patient; when left to himself, they come on at intervals of two or three minutes.
Busy with his hands pulling the bedclothes about.
Able to walk home, a distance of a mile; but when he reached the house he could not put the key into the door, “because he felt so stupid and shaky in the hand,” and had to seek assistance.
Displays considerable strength, but his movements are unsteady, as if he had lost some control over his limbs; for, when he tried to wipe mucus from his lips he raised his right hand with apparent difficulty a short way from his mouth, and then, with an effort and rather unsteady movement, raised his left hand and touched his lips.
It was impossible to keep him in bed, and very difficult to prevent his walking about (after two hours).
Restless, constantly tosses about in bed and moves the head to and fro.
Restlessness, and frequently great nervous agitation of mind and body.
Restless and slept none.
Continued tossing about and changing position in bed; did not sleep any till next morning.
Restlessness, a desire and inclination to perform all movements hastily and rapidly, becoming at last a desire to fight, so that the two provers who at the same time and place had taken the same dose, actually began to scuffle and wrestle, which they never before did.
Has been nervous, wakeful for the last three hours (after eleven hours).
Although I could move my body and limbs, it was only by a great effort, and when I raised my arms they fell as if made of lead. This I ascribed to partial paralysis of the motor nerves, and I watched with some interest the return of power as the night advanced.
Gait unsteady.
Gait weak, tottering, the person must at last lie down.
Staggering, or complete inability to walk.
Very weak and unsteady in his gait (sixth day).
Very weak in the open air.
Great weakness of muscular action, some transient but general trembling of the limbs, so that the gait was tottering, like a drunken person.
Morning, felt very weak, could not desire to rise; lay in a half dreamy sleep; after he was dressed great desire to lie down again.
Inability to rise, although he makes efforts to do so.
Patient keeps the recumbent posture on his back, and only at times makes attempts (which are easily repressed) to rise up and get out of bed.
Lies on left side.
Slight and hearing morbidly sensitive (1 gr)..
During the succeeding night he was morbidly sensitive to sounds and objects, with symptoms akin to the early stage of meningitis.
Pulse in the morning 108, furred tongue and hot, dry skin.
Felt faint, and greatly in need of fresh air.
On asking loudly if he had any pain in the head, he replied, “No pains whatever”.
Torpor and paralytic trembling.
Anaesthesia, absence of pain, slight sensibility to painful pressure, only touch seems very little influenced.
Thrusting pins into the skin causes no sensation of pain; water, either warm or cold, glides over the surface of the body without moistening it or producing any appreciable sensation.
This anaesthesia continued several hours (first day).
Lost the power to estimate distances, either by the eye or touch; touching an object does not produce the slightest sensation.
Upon attempting to place the hand upon a table, cannot tell when the hand touches it (first day).
Was unable to feel the arms and legs, and being alarmed called for help (after one-quarter of an hour).
General discomfort.
Skin.
Redness of the skin (after thirty to sixty minutes).
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.