Excessive terror was painted on her countenance, and she responded to all questions by pointing with a trembling finger to swarms of unclean beats, which she fancied were scrambling all over the walls, beds, table, etc., of the wards (from 5 grains used a s a suppository).
Fancied he saw ghosts and animals in the fire.
He imagines he sees ghosts and various insects.
He imagines he is riding on an ox, or some such thing.
It seems to her that her nose is transparent, and a spot on the left side of the head transparent and colored brown.
(He raves as in a dream, and cries he must go home, because everything is burning up there). (Case 21).
(*These two symptoms are taken from the following: “On December 6th, raved in his sleep; he cried out, All is on fire at home; it is necessary that I should return there.'”*) Lying in bed in the evening, it appears to him as if he were floating away with his cough; ten evenings in succession he imagined, immediately after lying down, that he was floating in his bed.
Lively and playful the next morning, apparently well, but completely unconscious, so that when he was offered a piece of bread he thought it was a stone, and threw it from him.
He sought continually to spring out of bed.
When put into bed, he sprang out again in delirium, talked constantly, laughed out, and exhibited complete loss of consciousness; did not know his own parents (this lasted the whole night).
In his delirium he threw himself down from a height.
She jumped into the water.
In his delirium he picked at the bedclothes and threw them off, and sought continually to spring out of bed.
Condition resembling constant intoxication.
Intoxication.
State of joyous intoxication; she danced and jumped about in such a way that the neighbors thought she had been drinking.
State of intoxication, with disturbed vision and difficult speech; he imagines that he cannot move his tongue (after five hours).
As if drunk, immediately after a meal.
Directly after a meal, as if intoxicated (after six and a half hours).
Intoxication immediately after drinking the least quantity of beer.
Great excitement; now he sings, now scolds, while the limbs are in constant motion.
Various gesticulations.
She makes preparations for turning home.
A tailor was poisoned with a Belladonna injection, and for fifteen hours, though speechless and insensible to external objects, went through all the customary operations of his trade with great vivacity, and moved his lips as if in conversation.
He performs foolish ridiculous tricks (after one to eight hours).
The speech was more incoherent in the evening.
Nightly delirium, which is absent during the day.
Incoherent ravings at night; during the day he is in his right mind.
The delirium ceases after a meal.
Talkativeness.
Constant unintelligible talking.
Garrulity; he constantly uses foolish and absurd language, at which he often laughs aloud; when addressed he turns towards the speaker, but does not answer correspondingly (after half an hour).
Great garrulity, with a silly unmeaning smile and laugh.
Garrulity, unlike his usual mood, with squinting and extremely stupid expression.
Desires and Aversions.
Takes pleasure only in voluptuous ideas.
Inclination to violent exercise and rapid traveling.
Fondness for games of chance.
Love of solitude, aversion to society, and dislike to conversation.
Dread of solitude, of ghosts and thieves.
Not inclined to talk; he desires solitude and quiet; every noise and the visits of others are disagreeable to him.
She abhorred all liquids, and acted frightfully, bit the jaws tightly together, and raved so that she was obliged to be tied down.
Aversion to all fluids, so that she demeaned herself frightfully, at the sight of them.
Abhorred all liquids; he would scream violent general convulsions would immediately occur.
Moods.
The expression and actions denoted uncommon cheerfulness; with incessant senseless talking.
Merry craziness.
In the evening, the boy was uncommonly and exuberant mirth; inclined to quarrel without cause, and disposed to laugh in an annoying manner.
Very mirthful mood; he is inclined to sing and whistle (in the evening, after thirteen hours).
Great mirthfulness after supper; the vital power which increased to extraordinary degree for a quarter of an hour, after which came drowsiness.
Frequent laughter, Case 5.
Loud laughter.
Constant loud laughter.
Involuntary, almost loud, laughter, without having any laughable thoughts.
Stupid laughter and merry delirium.
She laughs a long time with herself, (Case 5).
Continual laughter, whereby the subjects jumped high up, from emotions of wild joy, danced, made the most remarkable gesticulations, and performed different motions of the body with the greatest rapidity and dexterity (after one hour).
She breaks out into loud laughter, sings, and touches things near her.
Laughing and singing, she touches objects around her the whole day.
Singing.
He sings and warbles.
Singing and loud talking in sleep.
Weeping.
Very excited mood; she is readily brought to weep.
Violent weeping, whimpering, and howling without cause, accompanied with timorousness, usually within twelve hours.
Weeping and extreme ill-humor on awaking out of sleep.
In the intervals free from spasms, she utters the most violent cries, as if she were suffering great pain.
Dejected, despondent. (*Not found*).
She is so anxious and confused that she fears she is about to die.
Anxiety and inquietude.
Very anxious and timorous.
By day, great anxiety; she has no peace anywhere; it seemed to her as if she must flee away.
Anxiety, anguish, trembling, constant restlessness. Groans, cries, and weeping, especially in the afternoon and at night.
Anxiety during the menses.
Much anxiety, followed in an hour by perspiration.
In her momentary lucid intervals she complains of intolerable anguish, so that she wishes to die.
In walking in the open air, she is overwhelmed with tearful anguish; she is weary of life, and inclines to drown herself.
She begs the bystanders to kill her.
Tearful timidity.
Timid mistrust.
Cowardice, distrust, suspicion, inclination to run away.
He starts in a fright very readily, especially when any one approaches him.
Events which had been previously anticipated with pleasure appeared to him in an anxious light; he thought them fearful and dreadful.
Timorous insanity; he is afraid of an imaginary black dog, of the gallows, etc.; more in the first twelve hours than afterwards.
On seeing a drink which was offered him he became very restless, the gesticulations and rolling of the eyes became more violent, and the face assumed an expression of great fear.
He feared that death was near.
She is so anxious and confused that she fears she is about to die.
She tries to strangle herself, and begs the bystanders to kill her, because she believes that she will certainly die.
He tries to escape.
He escaped, under some pretext, into the open field.
Extreme irritability of temper.
The merest trifle provokes and irritates him; he is dissatisfied with everything.
Exceedingly irritable and sensitive humor, with inclination to utter abusive language and to strike.
Fretfulness; nothing seemed right to him; he was vexed with himself.
He was fretful about this and that.
Extremely morose and serious.
Silent ill-humors (after eight hours); on the two following days he was in his wonted mood; the day after that, however, his ill- humor returned.
Whining ill-humor about trifles, with headache as if a stone were pressing the forehead.
Want of cheerfulness, ill-humor, inclined to nothing.
Extreme ill-humor after sleep; he bites those around him.
He is very easily made angry, even about trifles.
Violent quarrelsomeness, which cannot be appeased.
At times he is delirious, at times he answers rightly when questioned, and bemoans himself.
At one time he utters ridiculous nonsense, at another he talks rationally.
After the talkativeness, dumbness.
Hourly alternation of weeping and fretful humor.
At first, sad, weeping, which then passed into impatient and vehement howling (with chilliness), (after one hour).
Sighing, alternating with jumping and dancing.
Groaning, alternating with bursts of laughter, songs, and gambols.
At one time he hurriedly grasps at those standing near, at another he starts back in fear.
Disinclination and indifference to everything; deficient activity of mind and body.
Apathy; nothing could make an impression on her; after some days there succeeds a very sensitive, fretful mood, in which nothing gives her pleasure.
Extreme indifference for hours; one could have taken her life without affecting her.
Intellect, Thought.
Paroxysm of cerebral exaltation, with abundance of ideas and images, generally fantastic and incoherent.
His uncommon liveliness and readiness of thought, and the absence of his customary hypochondriac moods, seemed remarkable to himself and the physician.
He spoke rapidly and hastily.
Mental confusion.
Mental confusion, so that he knew not whether he was dreaming of awake.
Confusion of mind; he imagined himself rich, owner of a large hours, etc. (after a quarter of an hour).
Confusion of mind, general trembling, transient heat of face (after half an hour).
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.