Respiratory Organs
Slight rattling of mucus in the trachea. Voice. More or less hoarseness. Frequently hoarseness when speaking for any length of time, whereas her voice is usually extremely clear. Speech indistinct (inaudible), (soon, after fifteen minutes). Respiration. Slight rattling of the mucus in the trachea. Voice. More or less hoarseness. Frequently hoarseness when speaking for any length of time, whereas her voice is usually extremely clear. Speech indistinct (inaudible), (soon after fifteen minutes). Respiration. Breathing loud and rattling (after eleven hours and a half). Respiration stertorous. Breathing stertorous, amounting to no more than 4 or 5 per minute. Respirations increased, with acute pains in the chest. Respiration 19, 20 (before the injection); 15, regular (three quarters of an hour after 1/4 gr.); 16, regular (ten minutes after 1/2 gr.); 14, regular (three hours and a half after 1/2 gr.). Respiration 9 and 10 all day (second day). Respiration rattling, slow, 8 to the minute. Respiration very superficial, occurring only every twelve or fifteen seconds. Respiration short and irregular. Respiration irregular, with frequent sighs (one hour and three quarters after 1/2 gr.). Respiration indescribable, thoracic respiration apparently entirely suspended. Respiration difficult; (after five minutes); (after fifteen minutes). Respiration slow and difficult (after four hours). Slight difficulty in breathing (after third dose); respiration greatly obstructed (after fourth dose). Very difficult respiration. Struggling for breath.
Chest
Tightness of the chest and difficulty in breathing, and she asked to be raised, saying she felt as if she were dying (after fifteen minutes). Great pain in the chest, and could not take a long breath (after half an hour); pain principally in the middle of the sternum, the breathing was short and quick, and she sighed often (after four hours). Felt very ill, with “an indescribable sensation, worse to bear than any pain,” behind the lower half of the sternum (after one hour).
Heart and Pulse
Heart’s Action. Palpitations. Violent throbbing in the heart and carotids. The beat of the heart could not be felt; with the ear could be distinctly heard only at times. Congestions of the head, palpitations of the heart, with tense pulse; the latter often suddenly disappears and gives place to scarcely perceptible, thready, slow, and intermittent pulse, that marks the beginning of a serious collapse; increased reflex irritability; the patient has frequent attacks of sneezing and yawning; he starts up in fright if one approaches him; touch of the skin causes cramp and twitchings. Pulse. Pulse full and slightly accelerated (after two hours). Pulse strong and frequent. The pulse in severe cases is small, at times tense or thready. In some cases oppression of respiration and palpitation are observed. Pulse strong, rapid. Pulse scarcely perceptible, rapid, weak, fluttering, about 140 or 150. Pulse feverish. The pulse at first sinks, and then rises several beats. Pulse 79 (after twenty-minutes). Pulse ranging from 140 to 160, extremely non-resistant, feeble fluttering. Pulse 63 (before taking); 108 (after half an hour). Pulse 66 (before taking); 94 (after twenty minutes). Pulse rose from 68 to 78 (immediately); to 88 (after one hour). Pulse rose from 84 to 94 (after half an hour). Pulse rose from 61 to 86 (after a few minutes). Pulse rose from 66 to 82 (after half an hour); to 90 (after one hour and a half). Pulse 60 (before taking); 80 (after half an hour). Pulse 65 (before taking); 68 and irregular (after twenty- five minutes). Pulse 66 (before taking); 80 (after half an hour). Pulse 80 (before injections); accelerated 6 beats (three quarter of an hour and one hour after 1/15 grain); 80, regular, of good volume and power (two hours after 1/15 grain); weaker (three quarters of an hour after 1/12 grain); feeble, decreased 4 beats (one hour and three-quarters after 1/12 grain); very small, weak, intermittent, accelerated 6 beats (three hours and a half after 1/12 grain). Pulse 74, of fair volume and power (before the experiment); 70, a little fuller and stronger (two hours after 1/6 grain); accelerated 6 beats, unchanged in volume and power, intermitted thrice in two minutes (thirty minutes after 1/4 grain); accelerated 8 beats (three quarters of an hour after 1/4 grain); accelerated only 1 beat, of diminished volume (one hour after 1/4 grain); decreased 8 beats, and of less volume and power than before the injection (two hours and a quarter after 1/4 grain); accelerated 16 beats (ten minutes after 1/2 grain); accelerated 20 beats, increased in power (half an hour after 1/2 grain); attained its maximum acceleration of 26 beats, strong and regular, and of good volume; a pulse indicative of strong stimulation (one hour after 1/2 grain); the maximum acceleration remained unchanged (two hours after 1/2 grain); fallen from 100 to 96, and had nearly returned to its original volume and power (three hours after 1/2 grain); 94, still a little fuller and stronger (three hours and a half after 1/2 grain). Diminished rapidity of the pulse (immediately). Pulse excessively weak, and rather slow. The pulse sinks during the first hour several beats. Pulse lowered 4 to 8 beats, but only in healthy subjects, or those laboring under simple neuralgic complaints (after half an hour). Pulse about 60 (after four hours). Normal pulse 60; all day was 49 and 50 (second day). Pulse 65, regular (before taking); 90 (after twenty-five minutes); 80 (after forty minutes); 62 (after three hours). Pulse 75 (before taking); 72 (after a quarter of an hour); 75 (after three-quarters of an hour); 68 (after one hour and a half); 66 (after two hours); 70 (after three hours). Pulse 80 (before the injection); increased in volume and power, evidently under the influence of strong stimulation (after one hour); 74, regular, of the same volume and power as before the injection (after two hours). Pulse 74, regular, good volume and power (before the experiment); reduced 19 beats, being now 55, unchanged in volume and power (after two hours and a half). Pulse 100 (before the injection); decreased 4 beats, regular (after one hour); decreased 30 beats, feeble, and slightly irregular (after two hours). Pulse 76 (before the injection); decreased 16 beats, regular, of unchanged volume and power (after one hour and a half); decreased 20 beats (after two hours); decreased 22 beats, being now 54, regular, and of good volume and power (after four hours). Pulse 78 (before the experiments); decreased 4 beats (fifty minutes after 1/4 grain); decreased 10 beats, unchanged in volume and power (one hour and a half after 1/4 grain); 60, decreased 16 beats, of normal volume and power (three hours after 1/4 grain); decreased 4 beats, unchanged in volume and power (one hour and a quarter after 1/2 grain). Pulse irregular (soon, after fifteen minutes); afterwards not to be felt. Pulse slow, full, intermitting. Pulse small, contracted, intermitting. Pulse hard. Pulse greatly contracted. Pulse exceedingly weak (after eleven hours and a half). Pulse small. Pulse very small (after four hours). Pulse extremely small (immediately). Pulse scarcely perceptible. Very great diminution in the strength of the pulse, and a considerably reduced arterial tension. The increase or diminution in arterial tension does not take place in accordance with the quantity injected, and the largest dose only prolongs the lowering effect. Tracing almost a straight line, representing the maximum effect on the arterial tension, which thereafter began to increase (half an hour after 1 centigramme); marked increase in the swell corresponding to the arterial diastole, but the smaller prominence, caused by dicrotism, is not yet visible (one hour and ten minutes after 1 centigramme); tracing returned to normal outline (two hours and ten minutes after 1 centigramme).
Neck and Back
Stiff neck (second morning). Great pain in the back (after two hours). Pains extending along the spine. Pains and twitchings all down her spine (after four hours). Weakness of the loins, for several days).
Extremities in General
Objective. Tremor of the hands. Trembling of the limbs. Trembling of the limbs and general oppression. Twitching of the limbs. Her fingers were involuntarily contracted and extended; she experienced some uneasiness about the elbows and knees (after third dose); the muscles of the hands and feet became rigidly contracted; the legs were drawn upon the thighs, and they upon the abdomen; the arms alternately flexed, extended, and then contracted across the thorax (after fourth dose); in fact, the spasmodic action of all the voluntary muscles was so great as to stimulate a genuine case of traumatic tetanus; alcohol, ammonia, coffee, cold and hot ablutions, and constant frictions were resorted to with no effect; the spasmodic action commenced at 2 P.M., and continued till 5.30 P.M. Slight stiffness or heaviness of the limbs (after one hour). Limbs paralyzed (after two hours). Limbs weak. Weakness and some trembling of the limbs. Weakness of the joints. Subjective. Her arms and legs felt as if they were alive, and as if they were going to jump up (after twenty hours). Feeling of great weariness, in the limbs, with inclination of the right lids to close; great longing for rest (after one hour). Abnormal sensations in the extremities associated with salivation. Heaviness of the limbs; (after half an hour). Pains in the joints. Violent pains in the joints.
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.