After discontinuing its use she was more miserable than before; all the symptoms returning with increased severity, an for the first six months she was almost entirely helpless. If the dose be not taken at the usual time, there is great prostration, vertigo, torpor, discharge of water from the eyes, and in some in involuntary discharge of semen, even when wide awake. If the privation be complete, a still more formidable train of phenomena takes place. Coldness is felt over the whole body, with aching pains in all, parts. Diarrhoea occurs; the most horrid feelings of wretchedness come on; and if the poison be withheld, death terminates the victim’s existence. At length their whole organization assimilated to such a state of mind and body, and they have grown up to the size of manhood, with the avenues of their brains practically closed by drugs, so that they still have merely infantile powers of mind and strength of body. Joseph is very gluttonous an masturbates in the most shameless manner.
George has a most perfect equanimity of general foolishness and indolence in all his faculties. But William is a powerful genius on digestion, and robs the swine and dogs of all the crumbs he can skim out of their food. Most Opium-eaters dislike wine and brandy; but this is not always the case. The exhilaration is most striking in the state of the mind; all is order, harmony, vigor, and tranquillity; there is no shadow of that brutality which most decidedly belongs, more or less, to vinous intoxication. No greater misery can be felt than the Opium-eater experiences when his accustomed stimulus fails him, or the dreadful reaction sets in, which is a striking to observes as it is painful to himself; the mind is much enfeebled; the eyes lack lustre; the sensations are all disordered; the appetite is lost; the limbs seem incapable of supporting the body’s load; existence is loathsome; no substitute can be found for the potent juice, for to the greater number of the lovers of Opium wine and brandy are disgusting; they nauseate instead of diffusing a genial glow. The accustomed dram is the only relief to be found in this sad state, an the deluded victim flies to his debauch whenever the opportunity presents itself, although self-condemnation and the ridiculed of his friends await him, and although idiocy and deformity stare him in the face. Any meal, taken within half an hour or later, after a dose of Opium, speedily brought on all its effects, an it seemed in a considerable degree higher. If taken within an hour after dinner, the effects appeared later than usual and were less in degree; I even sometimes could hardly perceive them at all, if the dose had been a moderate one. Every appearance of a man dying of compression of the brain (after four or five hours). He believed it to be a case of epilepsy, from appearances and from what was told him; death (after twelve hours). Dropsical tendency. Apoplexy not infrequent. (* Revised by Hughes. *) The effects were the stronger the shorter the time since a former dose had been taken, even if the effects caused by the latter seemed to have subsided. The effects would last an hour or two (after 2 grains). The effects seemed to be stronger the earlier in the day the Opium had been taken. Cold, rest, but particularly sleep, also retard the appearances of the effects, an prolong them. (When applied directly to a nerve, it does not diminish its functions). (* Revised by Hughes. *) Strumous affections of all kinds are apt to be developed, and the constitution is prone to succumb all kinds are apt to be developed, and the constitution is prone to succumb without resistance under all violent disease. Analyses of the blood, for some time before and after taking, showed the solid constituents of the fibrinous portion increased, the watery portion also increased; the solid constituents of the blood freed from fibrin diminished, the watery portion of the same increased; the solid constituents of the serum diminished, the watery portion slightly increased, the albumen somewhat diminished; the extractive and slats very slightly increased; the fibrin of the blood diminished; blood- globules diminished; blood-clot diminished; serum largely increased. Blood drawn from the arm was black.
Blood flowed from a vein that had been opened recently (until death). Impaired voluntary motion (after 4 to 6 grains). It diminishes the power of moving the muscles. It destroys the activity of the voluntary muscles, diminishes sensation, and causes sleep. When applied to the muscle it very soon destroys their irritability. The muscles can be moved with difficulty.
Vital energy decreasing (after twelve hours). Sensation of strength. Sensation as though he had not slept enough (after two hours and a half). The symptoms, expect the trembling, disappeared after coffee, but soon returned (first day). The symptoms disappeared after a cup of black coffee. Did not feel so refreshed an invigorated in the morning as usual (after 8 drops).
Refreshed for a moment by cool air (tenth day). Intolerance of the open air, and a sensation as if he would take cold. Cannot lie on the left side, and experiences pain in it, even on attempting to turn in bed (third day). A cigar, which he attempted to smoke at 10.30 A.M., as usual, caused vertigo, great nausea, inclination to vomit, cold sweat over the whole body, and trembling of the limbs; momentarily relieved by a glass of fresh water (third day). Great restlessness. Oppression, with restlessness, confused ideas, and sparks before the eyes; with burning disagreeable heat of the head, extending over the whole body. Restless (soon). Physical restlessness; a kind of anxiety (first day). Restless night. Uneasiness (third day). Night very restless. General debility (second day). Great sense of debility and lassitude. Body debilitated, so that I was obliged to remain on the sofa all day (second day). Unfitted for all work; weak an debilitated. Slight heaviness (after fifty-five minutes).
Indolence and inaction; neglect of business or work, and consequent poverty; wife and children are disregarded; not infrequently theft supplies the only resources for preserving in the fatal pleasure. Indolence. Indolent, in the morning, on rising (seventh day). Relaxed, indolent. Movements indolent.
Weariness, with unsteady gait (third day). Weariness (one hour after 1 grain). Weariness over the whole body (first day).
Inclination to lie down. Great inclination to lean against everything, to stretch out the feet, and support the head upon the hand. Great weariness and sleepiness (three hour after 1 grain). Weariness and exhaustion (after 3 drops). General weariness and exhaustion (after 1 drop). Unusual weariness and perspiration (after 2 drops). Weariness in the knees, elbows, and masseter muscles (soon after a dose). Was not refreshed by sleep at night, but rose in the morning quite as sleepy as in the evening when he went to bed (after 2 drops). He could scarcely move his feet; could scarcely go forward, though making every exertion. Weariness, after long Opium sleep. Overpowering weariness. A pleasant king of weariness, as from intoxication.
Felt so weak that he could move his limbs only with difficulty, at the same time there was an internal restlessness that constantly impelled him to change his position, whether sitting or lying (after 4 drops). Very easily fatigued by his ordinary occupation. Weakness; (sixth day). Weakness of the whole body (after 2 drops). General weakness (tenth day). A certain weakness and indolence continued for several days after the proving. Could not walk on account of weakness of legs (after four hours).
Unusual weakness (after 3 drops). Gait slow, tottering. He lay in a condition of the greatest weakness. Tottering; cannot walk without reeling. Loss of power; sinking of the forces. Sinking of the strength. (* Even to death.-HAHNEMANN. *) Weakness; all external objects distress him; he is sleepy, stupid, confused, sad, and his thoughts leave him. (* After the primary action of Opium.-HAHNEMANN. *) Continued weak. Sensation of great weakness an prostration, extending through all nerves, especially the sciatic nerve. Great weakness (after eight minutes); (after half an hour); (after sixty minutes); (fourth day). Great weakness and stupefaction (second day). It causes perceptible diminution of strength, and i pairs the tone of the tissues, and motion.
Discomfort; feeling of weakness of body and mind (after eight, and twelve hours). Weakness. (From the daily abuse of Opium.- HAHNEMANN. *) Weakness, with inclination to sleep (one hour after 3 drops). Weakness and exhaustion, with disinclination for physical and mental work (after 8 drops). More exhausted after waking, from restless dreams through the night. Slightly exhausted, and did not speak with his usual firmness of voice (after eight hours and a half). General exhaustion an weariness (after 2 drops). Exhaustion of strength and inability to move.
Exhaustion (after eight, and twelve hours). Complete prostration of strength; (first day); (fifth day), etc. Prostration (fifth and eighth days). Extreme prostration of mind and body, after awaking from the somnolency and dreams (from too large or too frequent doses). Great prostration; sinking of all the vital forces. Prostration of the whole body. Very weak, prostrated (second day). Languor, and lack lustre of eye. A pleasing kind of languor, gradually increasing (after forty minutes). Languor; immediately. (* Revised by Hughes. *) Languor and indifference succeeded the delirium (after three hours). General lassitude and exhaustion (second day after 2 drops). A lassitude and exhaustion, and strong propensity to sleep, were the late and last effects, more or less, sooner or later, in proportion as the earlier effects had been more or less strong, an lasted a shorter or longer time. If, for instance, I had taken from 4 to 6 grains, at 10 or 11 A.M., I sometimes experienced a burning heat creeping throughout my limbs, but which was particularly strong in my palms, followed by exhaustion, at 9, 10, or 12 P.M., or thereabout; sometimes I experienced lassitude and propensity to seep next morning, when I got up at 8 or 9; sometimes at noon, or any other time during the day or night. I cannot exactly determine how long this state of relaxation lasted, but I think I sometimes felt it on the third and fourth days, after having continued most part of the second, or at least made its appearance on that day. If I had taken 10 full grains, the second day I perceived the symptoms of giddiness, trembling, etc. in a much milder degree than on the first; on the third day I was well, active, and cheerful; on the fourth I began to be despondent, tired, and exhausted, and continued in that state to the sixth and even seventh day. General feeling of lassitude (five or six years after discontinuance). Syncope, for some time.
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.