Throbbing motion and trembling of the whole body, especially severe in the arms (fifth day). Trembling, etc. Constant trembling. He starts at every sound. Jerk like startings up as in fright. Subsultus tendinum. The whole upper portion of the body was seized with violent spasms, while the lower extremities were paralyzed. Convulsions.
Convulsions of affected parts and of the whole body, with danger of stupefaction. Most violent convulsions with constant uneasiness and wild fancies. Hysterical attack, with chilliness and a kind of spasmodic motions. (* For Gelding read Greeding; not found.– HUGHES. *). Relaxation of muscles and limbs, followed by difficulty of walking and want of power to control movements; forced to lie down (half an hour). Very easily overstrained. There was a distinct impairment of motor power. I felt, so to speak, that “the go” was taken out of me. It was not that I felt fatigued just then, but it seemed as if a drag was suddenly put upon me and that it would be impossible to walk fast, if urged to do so (after three quarters of an hour). After walking about a mile uphill, this sensation was very decided; and on putting a foot on the scraper at the door of the hospital, the other leg was shaky and felt almost too weak to support me. My movements appeared clumsy to myself and it seemed necessary that I should make an effort to control them. Languor, muscular weakness, with strong desire to assume a recumbent posture. If a strong, active individual take 5 or 6 drachms of the succus on getting up in the morning and start off for a long walk, he will be overtaken in the course of half or three quarters of an hour with a feeling of general tiredness, and a special weakness of the knees as if he had been regularly tired out by walking all day to the full extent of his powers. If he be unusually active and strong, he will not, perhaps, yield to the inclination to rest but will proceed slowly on his way, feeling a strange lightness, powerlessness of the legs, with a tendency to drop forward on his knees. This will be associated with some giddiness and a feeling of heaviness over the eyes. At first the feeling of languor will be most oppressive but it will soon become more tolerable; and if he should continue his journey for an hour, he will find that the feeling of fatigue has by this time nearly passed off. In the course of another hour he will be as active as ever. Loss of power on waking from the midday nap; the arms and legs feel prostrated. Loss of her strength even to death.
The most powerful and active subjects lose their strength and are obliged to keep their beds. (Sinking of all the forces). (* In case of note to S. 784.This and 1283 supervened on a free purulent discharge setting in, and were removed by bark.- HUGHES. *).
Weakness. Weakness of the whole body. Weakness in the morning after waking, as after a fever. Weakness in the morning on waking, which disappears after rising. Weakness of the whole body in the morning fasting, as after severe illness, with loss of appetite as from satiety and aversion to food. Was obliged to keep his bed on account of weakness and chilliness with palpitation and headache. Attack of weakness and chilliness, so that he was obliged to lie down, followed the next day by headache and palpitation most violent; it seemed on every bent of the pulse as if the occiput were being pierced by a knife and the heart seemed at times to throb violently, at times to make great haste and at times to waver. Great weakness and exhaustion after eating. Remarkable weakness of the whole body in the morning and evening. Tremulous weakness after every stool, disappearing in the open air. Muscular weakness causing slight tottering. Weak and sick in the morning in bed, with ill humor, sleepiness and pains in the stomach (second day). So weak that she was obliged to lie down. Exhaustion of mind and body (fourth day). Great exhaustion. Very much exhausted, weak and as if paralyzed, after a short walk, with fretful hypochondriac mood.
Walking in the open air is exhausting and the air affects one.
Nervous prostration. (* After taking Conium for seven months.– hughes. *). Paralysis. General paralysis of all the voluntary and ultimately of all the involuntary muscles; those of deglutition being the first and of respiration the last to fail.
The paresis which had hitherto been mainly confined to the ocular muscles, became general and then I found that, even with the eyes shut, any movement involving the balance of the body was attended with a singular uncertainty and falling short of the desired effect, and this was again invariably accompanied by a fresh rush of seasick feeling. I accordingly now settled back in my armchair, shut my eyes and for some ten minutes kept absolutely still, with every muscle completely relaxed. The seasickness then speedily disappeared and I became wholly unconscious of any influence of the poison whatsoever. Indeed I had to open my eyes at last and experimentally look about, in order to know whether the enemy was still with me at all or not. (* fOLLOWING SYMPTOM.
*). Faintness. Attacks of faintness, in each of which she remained about five minutes without consciousness. Constant uneasiness. Hastiness and uneasiness in all his actions. Hurried mood. Constant tossing about, with violent screaming.
Subjective.
General increased liability to take cold.
Great liability to take cold, even in the room, while sitting after a walk, during which he had perspired. Dulness of all the senses.
Disinclined to work. During the action of hemlock, a sensation of muscular weariness, almost amounting to aching, is not uncommon, particularly if bodily exertion be continued the while. I sat down to note these observations; but being afraid to maintain this posture lest the rapidly decreasing muscular energy should get the better of me, I rose up again and tried to shake it off.
An hour and a quarter after taking the dose, I first felt decided weakness in my legs. The giddiness and diminution of motor power continued to increase for the next fifteen minutes. An hour and half after the dose, these effects attained their maximum; and at this time I was cold, pale and tottering. The pulse which had been emotionally excited by the sudden accession of the foregoing symptoms, was now 68, quite regular and of undiminished force and volume. The legs felt as if they would soon be too weak to support me. There was a positive diminution of voluntary power in every part of the muscular system and this nearly amounted to complete paralysis as far as the hamstring and levator palpebrae muscles were concerned. At one time, the greatest exertion was required to elevate the eyelids. The mind remained perfectly clear and calm, and the brain active throughout; but the body seemed heavy and well nigh asleep. After continuing for about half an hour at their maximum, the symptoms began rapidly to decline, and within three hours and a half after taking the dose they had totally disappeared. He cannot get rested in any position. Heaviness and unsteadiness of the whole body, in the afternoon. A kind of stiffness of the body; movement of the limbs, neck, etc. causes an unpleasant sensation.
Feeling in the morning, as though he had not slept enough.
Standing is very irksome. On returning from a walk every step was excessively irksome and he could scarcely wait a moment on account of ill humor and impatience for the time when he could rest in solitude.
He feels the blood very uneasy in the whole body. Feeling as though the whole body were inclined towards the right side. A place injured several years previously frequently begins to pain.
Contractive sensation in the inner parts, where with saliva accumulates in the mouth. Cramp like and spasmodic pain in various parts of the body, chest, jaws, etc. Fine cutting in the glands. Paroxysm, usually after eating, commencing with yawning, sticking in the sternum and pressure in the pit of the stomach, even on touch, whence it extended to the back and became sticking in the region of the kidneys. Sticking sensation in the whole body. Smarting sticking pains about the swollen glands. Stitches in the swollen glands. Tearing stitches now here, now there, very piercing, as if to the bone. Tearings through various parts of the body (fourth day). General bruised sensation.
Took three doses of 60 grains each. The effect was greater in the evening than in the middle of the day but less than in the morning.
The recumbent position might have had some influence in diminishing the appreciation of this effect (nineteenth day). Symptoms are worse at night and wake him from sleep. The pains appear mostly during rest; on motion they appear only during the infrequent alternate action. 9.30 p. m. took 60 grains after eating apples. The action was less powerful than in the middle of the day (eighteenth day). In thirty five minutes after the second dose of 60 grains, that day the action of the medicine appeared to have reached its maximum, which it maintained about fifteen minutes with a sensation in the head, elbows, and knees already described, and to a greater degree than after any dose previously taken. In one hour and a half from the time of taking it, its apparent effects had entirely disappeared (eighteenth 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.