Disinclination for his ordinary work (after two drops).
Obscuration and weakness of mind; illusion, as if the eyes were four times larger than usual. (* Omit “Undsein Koerper.”-HUGHES.
*) Dulness of mind; short anxious respiration with great heaving of the chest; the eyes give out, and are full of water. Slight confusion of thought (within an hour). Loss of ideas, with inability to think. Every attempt at persistent thought was ineffectual (first day). Inability and disinclination for work in the afternoon (after three drops). General deterioration of all the mental faculties. The power of the will is overcome by the merest trifle. It diminishes the power of the will over the muscles (in strong people), causes heaviness of the head and great weakness. (* Opium diminishes the power of the will over the muscles only in its secondary action, when it paralyzes entirely, but in its primary action it excites it; if this primary action be interrupted by stupefaction and stupid sleep, there may be twitching in one or another limb during this sleep.- HAHNEMANN. *) Voluntary powers suspended. Mental weakness. The mental powers disappear. All the mental powers, all the sensibilities are dull. Dulness of the head; he has no mental grasp for anything, and cannot comprehend the sense of what he is reading. Dulness, indifference to external objects. Dulness and imbecility. Dulness of mind. Dulness of sense (after eight, and twelve hours). Dulness of sense, insensibility; he is scarcely conscious of his existence, although he answers quite appropriately. Insensibility to shame and to the more refined sensibilities. Nearly rational though when left to herself her mind seems to wander (second day). Capable of being aroused, and answered questions, but quickly relapsed into deep solemnity (after twenty-six hours and a half). Memory. Great forgetfulness.
(second day). Forgetfulness. He replies slowly to questions, as if he forgot his works. His ideas not easily collected (after eleven hours). Chronic loss of memory. Loss of memory (after ten minutes). Loss of memory for several weeks. Loss of memory. (* To S. 23, 171, 172, 173, 183, 184, 185, 186, 189, 287. When these conditions have become constant and persistent after the long and repeated use of Opium, they are akin to a chronic disease and a kind of paralysis of the mental organs that may indeed be incurable; 183, 184, 185, 186, 189 are secondary effects.- HAHNEMANN. *) The memory and mental powers generally became greatly impaired, attended by a miserable depression of spirits.
Memory continued weak. Frequent weakness of memory. (* From the frequent use of Opium. *) He does not recognize his nearest relatives nor familiar objects. Comprehension wavering.
Insensibility. Complete insensibility, so that it was impossible, either by pulling the hair or pinching the skin, to excite any wincing or signs of uneasiness, nor was any effect produced by the sudden affusion of cold water. Insensible state, etc. Insensibility, accompanied with a complete apoplectic respiration (after three hours) Complete immobility and insensibility Complete insensibility Complete insensibility, with her eyes open, etc. (after two hours). Great insensibility to external impressions. Insensibility, soon; (after five hours), (after two hours). Perfectly insensible (after two hours). Totally insensible (after fifteen minutes). Perfectly insensible and could not be roused. Appeared completely insensible to everything around her, and would not answer questions (after five hours and a half). Apparently dead (after four hours and three-quarters).
Insensible and motionless (after four hours). Insensible of what was passing around her (after six hours). Almost total absence of sensibility to external impressions. Insensible and comatose (after one hour and three- quarters). Insensible, and in strong convulsions; convulsions followed each other in quick succession, with comatose intervals (after one hour). Insensible, and could not be aroused by shaking (after twelve hours). Could not by any means be aroused (after six hours), (after four or five hours).
Could not be aroused by loud calling or shaking, or be the dashing of cold water on her face. Was aroused with great difficulty. Answered no questions, even when put in the loudest voice (after four hours). Insensible, though capable of being aroused (after half an hour). Slightly diminished sensibility (after 2 or 3 grains). Scarcely sensible (after a quarter of an hour). Almost perfect insensibility (after twenty or thirty minutes). Almost insensible for some hours. Almost insensible to external impressions, and when aroused by violent shaking and loud speaking, immediately sank back into a comatose sleep (after one hour and a half). Partial insensibility; he could be roused by shouting into his ear, but could not be made to answer any question; when not continuously aroused, he fell off immediately into a heavy stertorous sleep; between two assistants he was from time to time dragged along the corridors, making little effort to support himself, and when allowed to sit down, he was continuously aroused by being flapped on the face with a wet towel, which would cause him to open his eyes momentarily, but he became more completely narcotized, so that towards morning he seemed to be in imminent danger. Entire loss of intellectual faculties, of motion and perception. The child lay unconscious and insensible. Sudden loss of consciousness, with blue face and contraction of the upper extremities. She is unconscious of what is transpiring about her, and gives no sigh of consciousness; the joints are supple, and all the muscles relaxed. Complete asphyxia; not the slightest evidence of sensibility could be elicited by the application of various tests to different portions of the cutaneous surface or to Schneiderian membrane (after two hours); yet scarce a trace of the effects of the poison was observable (after twenty-four hours). Not the slightest indication of consciousness was elicited by passing the finger across the naked eye, by violent shaking, or by the application of ice-water, in the form of affusion, to the head (after eight hours). Lying on the floor in a state of unconsciousness, after sometime; total insensibility (after four hours and a half). The patient seemed momentarily threatened with apoplexy, having all the symptoms except stupor (after a quarter of an hour); this was followed by complete insensibility and death (after three-quarters of an hour). Nearly complete narcotism. Narcotism complete (after four hours). She was quite unconscious, and had lost the power of swallowing. After remaining in this comatose state for upwards of nine hours, she revived, the face became natural the pulse steady, the power of swallowing returned, she was able to recognize her daughter, and, in a thick voice, to give an account of the mistake she had made.
This state lasted about five minutes, the torpor then returned; she again sank into profound coma, and died in fourteen hours after the poison had been taken. Most profound coma (after three hours). Profound coma (after eighteen hours), (after four hours), and many others. Profound coma for three hours (after eight hours). Perfect coma; the insensibility being so complete that ice- water dashed violently in her face produced not the least evidence of insensibility, nor contraction of any of the voluntary muscles (after one hour and a half). Completely comatose, and on placing my finger on the conjunctiva there was no sensibility whatever evinced. Completely comatose, unrousable, insensible to sharp pinching, not convulsed, but arms rigid, fingers clenched, nails not livid (after two hours). Deep coma, with the head drawn backwards, and in partial opisthotonos.
Comatose condition, and snoring heavily (after twenty-three hours). Comatose; (after two hours); (after six hours), etc. She lay comatose on her back the head resting as if inert. Coma and insensibility, with the ordinary warmth, pulse, and respiration.
Able to speak and walk about without difficulty, although very drowsy (after two hours); quite comatose, unable to move (after three hours and a half). Partially comatose (after two hours and a quarter); profound coma (after two hours and a half). Partially comatose, but capable of being roused (after three hours); complete coma (after fourteen hours). Partially comatose, but capable of being roused up (after three hours); profound coma (after four hours). Lethargic condition (after three hours).
Lethargy. Lethargy increased so much that it required the utmost exertions to keep her awake (after six hours). Violent stupefaction and intoxication. (*From the odor of Opium.- HAHNEMANN.*) Deep stupefaction (after one hour and a half).
Stupefaction (after eight minutes). Stupefaction like an intoxication (sixth day). Stupefaction and some delirium.
Stupefaction, indifference. Stupefaction of sense and loss of reasoning power. Slowness of comprehension, stupidity, senselessness. Stupefaction of mind as if a board were before the head, with vertigo, obliging him to lie down, followed by trembling of the body, lasting some time. (* From a mixture of Hoffmann’s anodyne and Opium.-HUGHES.*) Dull stupefaction, with weak eyes and extreme loss of power. Stupefaction and insensibility, although he answered correctly. Sensation of stupefaction (third day). Stupor, soon; (after five or six hours). Stupor. (*Revised by Hughes. *) Lay in a deadly stupor, from which all efforts of her friends were insufficient to awaken her (after two hours). Profound stupor; (after seven hours); (after six hours and a half). Stupor so great that it could not be roused by any efforts that I could make (after three hours).
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.