Respirations four or five per minute (after eight hours).
Respirations not quite seven per minute. Respiration eight per minute. Respiration slow; (after one hour); (after half an hour).
Respiration very slow. Respiration constantly shorter and shorter. Respiration slow, difficult, stertorous. Respiration slow, with from time to time a deep inspiration. Respiration constantly less and less frequent death. Respiration slow, sighing. Respiration slow and sonorous (after five hours and a half). Respirations slow and embarrassed. Respiration slow, interrupted, attended with occasional moaning. Respiration slow, now and then moaning (after forty-eight hours). Breathing slow, laborious, and accompanied with a loud mucous rhonchus (after eighteen hours). Breathing slow and laborious; (after two hours).
Respiration slow, being about 20, deep drawn. Breathing less frequent than natural, but without any stertor (after four hours). Extraordinarily slow respiration, with thready pulse, 110, remained after the poisoning. Respiration slow, but otherwise natural (after one hour). Respiration slow, almost imperceptible (after two hours). Breathing slow, almost imperceptible, and suspended at intervals. Respiration rare (after one hour and a half). Breathing very shallow, both chest and abdomen being almost immovable (after twelve hours).
Respiration shallow; (after a quarter of an hour). Respiration very imperfectly carried on, being scarcely perceptible, and occasionally slightly stertorous (after six hours). Respiration interrupted (after half an hour). Respiration exceedingly weak.
By a casual observer, respiration would not have been discovered (after seventeen hours). Respiration scarcely perceptible.
Breathing not perceptible. Respiration imperceptible, at times with some noise. Respiration perfectly inaudible, and some attention necessary to perceive the motion of the ribs (after two hours and a half). Respiratory function suspended (after two hours).
Chest
Lungs somewhat oppressed. Oppression of the chest; (first, third, and seventh days). Indescribable oppression in the chest.
Oppression of the chest, making respiration difficult, and lasting a quarter of an hour (after 12 drops). Anxiety, with contraction and tightness of the chest. Heaviness in the chest, with frequent need of taking a deep breath, with at times gasping for air; the clothes were too tight; the beat of the heart could not be felt (after two hours). Pressure in the thorax frequently occurring, causing hacking cough, which always relieved it for a short time (after 3 drops). Pain in the chest (fourth day).
Violent pain in the chest (tenth day). Very violent pain in the chest, lasting through the afternoon, and making respiration difficult (sixth day). Pain in the chest, and a cough, which has continued ever since, five or six years (after the discontinuance of the drug). Tensive pain beneath the short ribs, along the attachment of the diaphragm, while breathing. Constriction of the chest, as if it were stiff; difficult respiration. Recurring stitches starting from within the thorax and extending outward, especially towards the right scapula (after 3 drops). He feels heat in the chest (perceptible to himself). Front and sides.
Constrictive (pinching) pain in the sternum and back, felt on motion. Drawing-tearing pain in the side of the chest. Excessive pressive pain in the right side of the chest, even when not breathing, with stitches in the same side during inspiration (after one hour).
Heart and Pulse
Heart. Violent beating of the heart. Pulsations of heart accelerated (after fifteen minutes). Circulation increased in rapidity, with a sensation of heat. The imperfect and irregular action of the heart became now more alarming than ever, and was more so when in the reclining than in a sitting posture (after five hours). Heart’s sound exceedingly weak. Heart’s action healthy, but feeble, varying with the respiration. Heart’s action could not be felt. Heart’s action suspended. Anxiety about the heart and restlessness (after two hours). (* Constantly renewed doses of Opium was the only palliative, even then for only a short time.-HAHNEMANN. *) Sensation of faintness and failing about the heart, seizing him as often as he was dropping asleep.
(* Revised by Hughes. *) Burning, as from glowing coals, in the heart, so that she thought that she would die. Painful stitch in the region of the heart (fourth day). Pulse. Pulse between 70 and 80, never above 84; in strength it was as remarkable for its healthy character as for its number (after seventeen hours).
Pulse regular (after three hours); 102, weak (after fourteen hours). In every instance the pulse has been quickened, and sometimes rendered sensibly fuller, in two or three minutes, e.
g., from 66 to 68, and from 70 to 76; after a longer or shorter interval, e. g., in from five minutes to an hour, determined by the dose, the beats return to what they were at the beginning, and sometimes afterwards descent a little below this; the manifest effect, in all these experiments, is increase of frequency, and often of fullness also. Pulse accelerated, full, and hard. Acceleration of the pulse by 10 beats (soon after 25 drops). Accelerated pulse. Pulse accelerated, somewhat excited, during the forenoon (after 1 drop). Pulse accelerated, by 10 beats, large, and hard; three hours after the dose it lost its fullness and hardness, and during the afternoon (after seven or eight hours) was not more rapid than before (after 2 drops).
Pulse frequent, full. Pulse contracted, hard, increased about 10 beats; this condition of the pulse disappeared after three hours, and in the afternoon the circulation was quite normal (after 3 drops). Pulse increased 8 to 10 beats, rather full and hard (two hours after 2 drops). Pulse 60 (before taking); 68 (after forty- eight minutes); 72, (after one hour). (* It is to be noted that the pulse was first taken while sitting quietly and writing; the subsequent observations were made while moving about in the open air.-EIDHERR. *) Pulse very rapid and weak (after eight hours).
Pulse very small and rapid (after eleven hours). Pulse rapid and feeble; could scarcely be felt; intermittent (after three hours).
Pulse more rapid, but weaker than usual (after 6 drops). Pulse more rapid than usual, rather full and hard (after 16 drops).
Pulse rapid and unusually weak, with rapid anxious oppressed respiration (after several hours). Pulse rapid. Rapid pulse, with headache. Pulse hard, rapid, violent, with difficult impeded respiration. Pulse violent, rapid, hard, with dark-red face.
Pulse hard, large, frequent. Pulse hard and rapid (after two hours); (second day). Pulse rapid, small and hard. Small quick pulse (after two hours and a half). Pulse quick; (after six hours). Pulse hard, regular. Pulse hard, contracted, not much more frequent than natural (after forty-eight hours). Pulse sharp (after four hours). Pulse quick and full (second and third days).
Pulse strong. Pulse large, soft, accelerated by 14 beats. Pulse large, slow, with heavy deep respiration. Pulse large, slow, with slow heavy stertorous respiration. Pulse moderately full and slow. Pulse full, of nearly normal frequency (after one hour).
Pulse full. Pulse full and hard (after seven or eight hours).
Pulse full, slow, and laboring. Pulse 60 and full (after eleven hours). Pulse 70, full and strong (after one hour and a half).
Pulse 70 to 80, full and soft (after half an hour). Pulse 90, full and strong. Pulse 95, full and soft (after one hour). Pulse full, amounting to 110 per minute. Pulse 120, full and strong.
Pulse full, regular, and slow; later, respiration became more and more stertorous. Pulse small, weak, and frequent. Pulse slow and strong (after a quarter of an hour). Pulse slow, undulating, soft. Pulse slow and soft. Pulse slow, very soft. Slow pulse.
Pulse slow, probably not exceeding 45 (after twenty or thirty minutes). Pulse slow, small and faltering, but not irregular.
Pulse slow and feeble (after seven hours); afterwards not to be felt at the wrist. Pulse slow and small (after four hours); (after fifteen minutes). Pulse slow and feeble (after four hours and a half). Slow, obscure pulse. Pulse slow, with slow stertorous respiration; exceedingly red distended face, and extremely profuse perspiration, with convulsions. (* From Opium with spirits of hartshorn.-HAHNEMANN. *) Pulse slow, full, regular, with deep stertorous respiration. Pulse slow and feeble (after two hours). Pulse slow and laboring. Intermittent pulse (after seven hours). Pulse irregular, intermittent (after two hours). Pulse rapid, irregular. Pulse full, slow, and very irregular (after seven hours). Pulse at first full, slow, afterwards weaker. Pulse 94, full, strong, but irregular (second day). Pulse sometimes full and nearly normal, at others scarcely perceptible, neither slow nor labored. Pulse, which after an hour and a half was 105, fell after six hours to 90. Pulse 60 and intermittent. Pulse 70 (before the experiment); 73 or 74 (twenty minutes after 1 grain); 77 (twenty minutes after 2 grains). Pulse 80; (after five hours and twenty minutes). Pulse 90, feeble and irregular (after five hours and a half). Pulse 90 (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.