Common names: Water hemlock, spotted cow bane, beaver poison, musquash.
Introduction
Cicuta maculata, Linn. Natural order: Umbelliferae. Preparation: Tincture of the root gathered in summer.
Mind.
Fell on their way, and were picked up unconscious (after one hour).
Head.
Dizziness (after one hour).
Eye.
Eyes wild and staring. Pupils dilated to the utmost extent.
Face.
Face very livid, and even purple, from congestion. Whole face puffed and bloated, resembling the appearance of the head of a person who has been drowned (two cases), (after two hours). Jaws rigidly fixed (two cases), (after two hours).
Mouth.
Bloody froth issued from mouth and nose.
Stomach.
Extreme nausea (after half an hour). Sickness of stomach (after one hour). Vomiting (one case). Vomited a frothy, glairy fluid. Puked, and brought up a teacupful of masticated root. Burning pain at epigastrium (after half an hour).
Abdomen.
Pain in bowels. Colicky pains in bowels (after half an hour).
Rectum and Anus.
Felt as if he had a call to a dejection, but on going to stool he could do nothing.
Respiratory Organs.
Stertorous breathing (two cases), (after two hours). Stertorous breathing.
Heart and Pulse.
Pulse intermitting, sometimes imperceptible (two cases), (after two hours). Scarcely any pulse perceptible.
General Symptoms.
Violent spasms (after one hour), Every muscle of the body affected with powerful clonic spasms, contracting and then partially relaxing with wonderful rapidity; his movements required four strong men to control; no cessation to the spasms. Tetanic convulsions (two cases), (after two hours),. Fell backwards in convulsions, which with various remissions and exacerbations and distortions, with alternate and imperfect relaxations of the whole muscular system, astonishing mobility of the eyeballs and eyelashes, with widely dilated pupils, stridor dentium, trismus, frothing at mouth and nose, mixed with blood, and occasionally violent and genuine epilepsy; the convulsive agitations were so powerful and incessant that I could not examine his pulse with sufficient constancy to ascertain its character.
Sleep and Dreams.
Complete coma (two cases), (after two hours).
Fever.
Head hot, Profuse sweat, Body covered with sweat.
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.