Throat
Dryness of the throat. Pain in the throat, from swallowing saliva; lasted all night. The sore throat continues, and extends to the right ear (second day). Violent burning pain in the fauces.
Stomach
Appetite and Thirst. In the afternoon, three hours before supper, sudden paroxysms of hunger, which soon ceases without eating (second day). No inclination to eat. Anorexia. No appetite, but food relished well. Disgust for everything. Thirst. Nausea and Vomiting. Felt sick, and retched once or twice. Nausea. Slight nausea. Nausea and vomiting. Nausea and vomiting every now and then; the stomach could bear only liquids in very small quantities. Vomiting. Repeated vomiting. Vomiting after meals. Vomiting, caused by the smallest quantity of food. The stomach was so irritable that everything taken was immediately vomited (second day). Pressing on abdomen causes vomiting of a yellowish, almost fecal-like-fluid. Stomach. Digestion disturbed. Very severe and obstinate pain in the epigastric region.
Abdomen
Pains in the abdomen. Frequent crying out that they had pains in the abdomen; it, however, was not distended or tense. Violent pains in the bowels.
Stool
Involuntary evacuations. Stools thin, painless. Constipation.
Urinary Organs
Kidneys and Bladder. Pains in kidneys. Paralysis of the bladder. Bladder remains paralyzed a long time. Paralysis of the bladder lasted nine days after the attack. Micturition. Involuntary evacuation of urine and faeces. Urination from the first became more and more scanty. Urine. Urine contained sugar. Sugar is found in the urine (Sneff). Urine contains a trace of sugar.
Respiratory Organs
Larynx, Trachea, and Bronchi. Rattling of mucus in air-passages. Bloody mucus is raised from the bronchi. Respiration. Respiration audible, almost rattling, slow, stertorous. Respiration rattling. Respiration rattling, now and then intermitting. Stertorous breathing. Expired air of a peculiar smell. The expired air felt, to the back of the observer’s hand, cooler than usual. Respiration is for a long time quiet, but afterwards it becomes accelerated, frequently with extraordinary energy and rapidity; expiration is quick, inspiration deep, rattling; latter there occur periods of complete intermission, followed by four or five inspirations. Respiration slower. Respiration slow. Respiration slow, frequently interrupted by yawning and sighing. Respiration very soon becomes slow and stertorous. Breathing now rapidly, now slowly (four children). Respiration 24 (after one hour). Respiration 20 to the minute. Respiration short and rapid. Expiration greater than inspiration. Respiration oppressed. Respiration difficult and interrupted. Respiration very labored. Somewhat impeded respiration. Sense of suffocation.
Chest
The chest had ceased to expand and contract. Emphysema of the lungs, with some bloody sputa. Remarkably weak vesicular murmur on auscultation. Felt as if a stream of warmth passed from the abdomen into the chest, and thence into the head; it roared in his ears, it affected his respiration; he rose, and after tottering a few steps, fell down, attacked by sudden vertigo. Complained now and then of anguish and anxiety in the chest. Sense of a burden on the chest. On breathing, feeling as if a heavy load on chest. In chest, severe tearing pain.
Heart and Pulse
Precordium. Intolerable pain in the region of the heart. Praecordial anxiety. Heart’s Action. Palpitation. Violent palpitation. Violent palpitation on exertion. Pressure in praecordial region produced violent palpitation, a rapid, weak trembling contraction and expansion. Desire to loosen clothing on account of palpitation. The action of the heart and of the lungs gradually decreased. Feeble action of the heart. Action of the heart slow and weak. Beating of the heart alternately increases and diminishes. The beating of the heart is at first increased, but afterwards it becomes slower. Beating of the heart at first strong, frequent, even amounting to palpitation, although associated with slow respiration; at last it becomes irregular and intermitting. The action of the heart is at first strong and rapid; it afterwards becomes very irregular, so that there is an intermission after four or five pulsations; the intermissions become prolonged on the approach of death, an afterwards become more frequent, so that they intermit every three or four beats. Pulse. At night, in bed, pulse high, rapid, 120 beats occupying a short time. Pulse 100. Pulse regular, 80, weak. Pulse rising and falling (varying between 144 and 88). Pulse small, rapid. Pulse rapid, very small. Pulse slow and full. Small, slow pulse. Pulse small and slow, scarcely to be felt. Pulse full, 68. Pulse 64 (after thirty minutes). Pulse 56. Pulse 56, soft, compressible, undulating. The pulse is at first accelerated, afterwards retarded. Pulse very variable (four children). Pulse weak, wavy. Pulse small. The pulse had stopped beating, or beat so feebly that in the agitation of the moment it was imperceptible.
Neck and Back
Soreness of all the cervical muscles while exerting the brain (second day). Burning pain at the right scapula, which soon ceases (second day).
Extremities in General
Extremities flexed. Feeling as if the left upper and lower extremities had gone to sleep and could not be moved. Inclination to stretch the extremities. Clonic cramps in the extremities. Clonic spasms of the extremities. Trembling of limbs. Convulsions in limbs and stiffness in joints. All limbs convulsed. Great weariness of the limbs. Paralysis of the left arm and left leg continues after the attack. Complete paralysis of the right foot and right hand, and also of the muscles of the right half of the face; persisted after the attack. Pains in the extremities, followed by paralysis.
Superior Extremities
Arms flexed, could not be extended. Tossing about of the arms. The chorea-like movements of the right arm continued for some days, only on waking. The arms and hands are without strength (second day). Spasm of flexors of forearm. A remnant of pain in the left knuckle-joints, caused by a fall on the ice six months before, returned with increased severity, and extended to the corresponding parts of the right hand (second day). Fingers clenched. Numbness of three fingers of the right hand; the fingers can only be extended with difficulty.
Inferior Extremities
Trembling of legs. Attempted to rise, but was unable to do so; legs stiff and powerless The legs can scarcely sustain the body (second day). The weakness in both legs continued to increase, to complete paralysis of the right and incomplete a paralysis of the left. Thigh. Occasional shooting pains in the right nates, just where the ischiatic nerve emerges; there was noticed at this point an elliptical red spot half as large as the band, without any trace of blisters, only the skin seemed to be somewhat puffy and elastic, without fluctuation. When sitting on a low chair, the gluteal muscles are painful, as if he had just got up after a severe sickness and was much emaciated (second day). Leg. Extension of the right leg became difficult (second week). When putting on his garters in the morning. they cause pain, and he is obliged to tie them so loosely that they slip down (second day). The pains in the nates extended along the sciatic nerve, and the external popliteal nerve, down to the foot; no pain on pressing on the os ilium or on moving the leg. Toes. Toes could not be moved (second week).
Generalities
Objective. Extreme emaciation followed the attack. The first effect is a stage of complete rest. The second stage is one of excitation, characterized by contractions an convulsions. Trembling of whole body. Body stiff. Hemiplegia (persistent). Paralysis of the sphincters. Sphincters relaxed. Cramps. Tonic cramps. Spasms, without loss of consciousness. Spasms, returning every five minutes, with loss of consciousness and loss of speech; the head was drawn spasmodically backwards, the arms stiffly extended; the spasms especially affected the cervical muscles. Violent spasms. Violent spasms, at first usually clonic, afterwards generally tonic, becoming tetanic. Tonic spasm of most of the muscles of trunk and extremities so that it is difficult to make patient sit or lie. Repeated convulsions. Epileptiform convulsions, which were renewed every time the patient was touched or spoken to, although he lay quite still and apparently unconscious. Disinclination to labor. Great lassitude in hands and feet. Weakness. Weakness of the muscles. Extraordinary weakness. General debility and malaise. Felt his strength fail him. Every voluntary moment, even speaking, difficult. Rising and walking seemed a most tremendous exertion. In morning could not rise up. Prostration. Great prostration. Complete prostration. Inclination to faint. Fainting. Suddenly fell to the ground, as if struck by lightning. Very restless. An enormous restlessness, with anguish and oppression, forced me to get up and walk in another room where the window was open. Constant motion, continually flexing and extending the right arm with considerable force. The father was constantly moving about and complaining of his head. Continually tossing about. Four children were lying in bed senseless, tossing to and fro. Extraordinary sensitiveness. The third stage is one of anaesthesia, characterized by partial or absolute insensibility. General insensibility. Tactile sensibility was greatly diminished; patient evinced no pain when pinched and pricked quite severely. Sensibility of sight, hearing, smell, and taste also greatly lessened. Blunted sensibility of the whole skin. Anaesthesia of the skin (persistent). Anaesthesia of skin, but the slightest touch with a hot iron recalls the sensibility. The sensibility of the skin is completely lost, especially to mechanical irritation; only a glowing hot iron causes a reaction; this insensibility is at first noticed on the extremities, whence it gradually extends to the trunk, last of all involving the mammary glands and the fossae under the clavicle and in the axilla(320). Complete anaesthesia. Subjective. Felt very tired and fatigued. General, indefinable malaise; feeling of painful weariness; dull pain in the limbs and loins. Dread of every noise or jar, which shoots through the body like an electric shock; continues for several minutes; this conditions gradually changes to a kind of insensibility, which is especially noticed in the tips of the fingers, and it varies in intensity with the condition of the atmosphere. Body all sore. Whole body sore to touch. Soreness of all the muscles, as after excessive fatigue (second day).
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.