Generalities
Objective. Appears drunk. Extreme emaciation. Flesh and strength decreased. It predisposes to inflammations. Distension of the arteries. Relaxation and heaviness of the whole body (after twenty- five minutes). After the violent symptoms had diminished, in about twenty minutes, he lay quiet for the next three hours, muttering incoherently to himself, and following with his eyes the motions of persons about the room. General excitement of the muscular power (soon after taking). He is hasty in his actions and speech. Often easily startled when awake, and then feels throbbings or palpitations. Trembling. Trembling, which prevented writing. Trembling, mostly of the heart. Subsultus tendinum and insensibility. Spasms. Spasm which was like an epileptic spasm (after one-quarter of an hour). Convulsions. Convulsions. (*In Alexander’s case during loss of consciousness*). Convulsions in children. True convulsions, with loss of consciousness, more or less prolonged. Strong convulsions. Violently convulsed. Violent convulsions. Violent convulsions, with disordered expression of countenance; livid aspect. Most violent general convulsions, especially of the hands and feet, so that five men could scarcely hold him. Clonic convulsive movements, at intervals of a few seconds, sometimes a minute. Convulsive circular motion (rotation of the arms). Several times the body curled itself up into a ball, and was projected out again with great activity. Perfectly stiff, and in an early stage of opisthotonos. Cataleptic rigidity with loss of consciousness, for a quarter of an hour, followed by relaxed sinking down of the whole body, so that he could scarcely be held upright for a quarter of an hour; followed by vomiting, after which consciousness returned (after two and a half hours). Falls from his chair in a kind of epileptic fit, which lasts about ten minutes (after twenty minutes). He rubs his forehead, head, chest, and other parts; does not know who he is; he leans against something, his senses leave him, he slides, and falls to the ground, stretched out stiff; the shoulders bent backward, the arms at first somewhat bent, the hands bent outward and somewhat clenched, the fingers spread apart; afterwards all parts are stretched out stiff, with the head bent to one side, the lower jaw open, stiff, the lips drawn inward, the teeth clenched, the eyes closed, incessant twitching of the facial muscles, cold all over, without breathing, for a quarter of an hour (after two hours). Languid and listless (after twenty minutes). Lassitude. Unusual lassitude and depression of spirits. (*Corrected*). Weariness. Complaints of weakness. Felt weak (after four and a half hours). Great weakness. Remarkable weakness. Excessive weakness. Peculiar sensation of weakness (morning). Great prostration and weakness, almost faintness. Attacks of prostration, with faintness and total relaxation of all the limbs. Great exhaustion. General exhaustion and suppression of urine for three months (after twenty minutes). Slight faintness (after half an hour). Attacked with a dreadful feeling of faintness, shivering, and numbness (soon after). Fell down insensible (after two and a half hours). Paralytic relaxation of the muscles. For several days partially paralyzed. Restlessness. Very restless at night; jumps and tosses about. She tosses anxiously about the bed, with constant weeping. Insensible to touch. Subjective. General comfortable feeling (after one hour). General discomfort. Discomfort of the whole body (after three hours). Uncomfortable sensation through whole body. Inexpressible discomfort of the whole body (after half an hour). Deathlike sensation. Intoxication, etc. Symptoms of intoxication. Drunkenness. Feeling as if drunk, with staggering (soon after). Symptoms like delirium tremens, such as optical delusions, fright, screams, hideous sights, and he buried head in pillow. At night, felt as if he could fly, or rather as if he must be and was being drawn up into the air, in spite of himself. Feeling of dryness in and over the body, especially on the head and in the bronchial tubes (after two hours). Pain in the periosteum of all the bones. Nervous drawings, with something like a shivering. Rheumatic sticking pain in all the muscles, especially between the shoulders. Tearing stitches here and there in joints. Most of the pains of camphor during the first days only exist under a condition of partial attention (so tearing in various parts of the body only occur when falling asleep) and disappear, especially the headache, as soon as he becomes conscious that he has the pain and pays attention to it; on the contrary, on the succeeding days he is only able to bring on the pains by thinking of them, or he notices them much more when paying strict attention to himself, and feels best when he is not thinking of himself.
Skin
Skin appeared in general to be pale and moist, and heat of surface diminished. Skin shriveled, relaxed, often cold. Skin became leathery, dry burning, without a trace of sweat. Erysipelatous inflammation. (*From the external application of camphor*). Erysipelas (from the external use). Vesicles on neck and chest. Very dry skin, even in bed, with good appetite. Acute drawing in the skin, above and below the left clavicle. Stitches in the skin of the right forefinger, on the side of the last joint. Itching here and there over the body, in the evening, after lying down in bed (after six hours). Severe itching (from the external use). Itching in the palms of the hands (after five hours). Continually increasing itching on the backs of the hands and knuckles, with sticking pain, relieved by scratching (after four and a half hours). Itching on the knuckles and between them (after twenty-five hours).
Sleep and Dreams
Sleepiness. Yawning. Yawning and sleepiness. Frequent yawning. Much yawning, when walking, without sleepiness. Sleepiness. Sleepiness, towards noon, with marked confusion of the head. Weary with sleep; it seems as though he should fall asleep (after one hour). He became overpowered by sleep at 7 P.M., and slept for more than two hours; on waking he did not know that he had been awakened in the meantime and had spoken to some one, though he was usually awakened by the slightest noise; after waking the headache was relieved, but he continued to feel sleepy. Sleep deep, prolonged, refreshing. Stupid slumbering, with pinching headache, great heat of the whole body, with distended veins, very rapid breathing, and bruised pain in the back, without thirst and with natural taste. Sleep during the first night very sound and deep, could scarcely get awake in the morning; in the night following; he awoke at midnight, and was unable to fall asleep again, but in the morning he could not arouse himself on account of sleepiness. Sleeplessness. Sleeplessness. Loss of sleep. The usual evening sleep, which he had taken upon a sofa, is omitted. Restless sleep. Sleep restless, he was continually awakened by thirst. Distressed sleep, with fearful dreams, visions, spectres, etc. Starts in his sleep. Snoring during sleep, on inspiration and expiration. He murmured and sighed during sleep. Talking in the sleep, the whole night, in a low tone. Crying out and starting up in sleep. Dreams. Sleep full of dreams. Dreams about projected occupations. Anxious dreams (fourth day). Dreams during the first day very confused; afterwards active dreams, and later, anxious dreams of dying, etc.; he also dreamed about circumstances which had been the subject of conversation the day previous, especially in the morning.
Fever
Chilliness. The body generally quite cold. Coldness of the body, with paleness. Coldness of the skin. Skin cold and insensible (after three days). Cold akin, covered with clammy, inodorous perspiration. Shivering. Shivering and chilliness, in the evening when lying down. Shivering, chilliness, and creeping goose-flesh over the whole body, for an hour (immediately). Slight shivering, with paleness of the face. Sensitive to cool air. In the evening, great sensitiveness to cold over the whole body, and headache, as from constriction of the brain, with pressure over the root of the nose (after twelve hours). He is excessively sensitive to the cold air. Great aversion to the cold air; it affects him very unpleasantly; he is obliged to wrap himself up warmly, and even then is chilled through and through. He is unable to endure slight cold, from which either a chill results, or cutting pain in the abdomen, with a diarrhoea- like passage of blackish-brown or black faeces, like coffee- grounds. Frequent cooling, especially in the pit of the stomach. Chilliness (after ten hours). Chilliness over the whole body (after a quarter of an hour). Chilliness over whole body (after one and a half hours). Chilliness over the whole body (after two and a half hours), followed (after one and a half hours) by increased warmth of the whole body. Chilliness and shivering, with goose-flesh; the skin of the whole body is painfully sensitive, and sore to the slightest touch. Great chilliness. Excessive chill. Shaking chill and chattering of the teeth. Coldness and drawing through the whole body, with cold arms, hands, and feet (after four and three-quarters hours). Coldness for an hour, with deathly paleness of the face. (*From sixty grains given for colic; the pain disappeared, but this condition supervened. One recovering from it she was well*). When walking, the internal coldness increases. Continually complaining of freezing. (Paroxysm of fever; severe chill, with gnashing of the teeth, and much thirst; he sleeps immediately after the chill, with frequent wakings, almost without the slightest subsequent heat). Agreeable coolness through the whole upper region of body, especially in stomach and oesophagus. Cold sensation internally, first on the right side, then on the left, as if a cold liquid were flowing from the head downward. Forehead, cheeks, and hands cold (after six hours). Chilliness on the cheeks and in the back. Chilliness in back. Frequent chilliness in the back. Internal chilliness within the scapulae. Chilliness over the back, mingled with warmth, as if sweat would break out. When walking, alternate chilliness and heat in the small of the back. Internal coldness in the region of the loins and small of back, worse on walking even a few steps. Extremities cold. Extremities cold (after twenty minutes). Hands and feet cold (after three hours). The hands become cold when walking. Cold hands and fingers. Sensation of internal coldness, extending from the knee into the foot, when sitting. Heat. Increased temperature. Increased heat of the skin. Burning heat of skin. Pleasant warmth through the whole body (after three hours). Increased warmth of the body, with redness of the face (after three-quarters of an hour). Began to feel warmer and warmer till he experienced a burning heat, and at the same time heart throbbed more and more frequently till it was impossible to count the pulse (after half an hour). Heat all over body (after one and a half hours). Heat of the whole body, which becomes excessive when walking (after five hours). On waking in the morning, peculiar sensation of heat over the whole skin, as if going to sweat. Heat, burning, and dryness of the skin. Heat, with trembling. Great heat (after some time). (*See S. 736*). Early symptoms soon followed by great heat and a quicker pulse. Glowing heat, with full, rapid pulse. Heat was unendurable, and aggravated his condition. Body hot and sweating. Feeling as if he had been very much heated, together with heat and rush of blood to the head. Feeling of coolness gave place to an easily endured burning (after two hours). Irritative fever; dry heat, and then easy perspiration. Increased sensation of warmth in various parts. Sensation of warmth in the stomach. Sensation of heat arising from the nape of the neck into the head. Sensation of heat in the lobules of the ears. Sensation of heat in face with cold hands (after one and a half hours). Sensation of heat through whole back. When sitting, a sense of heat, and at the same time an internal quaking, proceeding from the nape of the neck and between the scapulae, and extending as pressure in the limbs, with heat and perspiration of the forehead. Heat in the head and face. Heat of the head, hands, and feet, without thirst. Heat in the head, and a sensation as if sweat would break out, during shivering of the limbs and abdomen (after three hours). Heat in the occiput. Heat in the face, with increased redness (after ten minutes). Heat in the hands. Creeping heat in back. Sweat. Moist skin of whole body and face. After one and a half or two hours, skin began to grow moist. Next morning awoke miserable weak, the sweat having penetrated to the lower side of the featherbed, and shirt and clothes drenched. Some inclination to perspire, on slight exertion in cool rainy weather. More perspiration than usual. Copious perspiration. Perspiration profuse during the whole day. General warm perspiration. Cold perspiration, especially on forehead and chest (after twelve minutes). Perspires greatly during sleep. Sweat from smelling camphor. Profuse sweat (for one and a half hours). Profuse sweat for several hours after taking. Profuse sweat for some hours, and awaking weak and exhausted. Profuse sweat relieved the symptoms (after one and a half hours). Warm sweat over the whole body. Cold sweat. Cold sweat when beginning to vomit, especially on the face. Profuse cold sweat. Clammy sweat breaking out over body (after two hours). Cold sweating of head. Warm sweat on the forehead and palms of the hands. Warm perspiration on forehead (after one and a half hours). Perspiration on the forehead when sitting. Perspiration in the nape of the neck when walking. Perspiration on the back when sitting. The hands perspire excessively.
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.