Pulse more or less intermitting during the entire day; at 8 P.M., it was 125, small, irritable, and intermitting; next morning 100, small irritable, but not intermittent; 94. fuller and less irritable (third day). Pulse 72, five hours after taking food (before the proving); 76 (after five minutes); 72 (after ten minutes); 70 (after fifteen, and twenty-five minutes); soon after 9 o’clock had a cup of cocoa, went to bed at 10.30, when the pulse was about 60 (after three hours and a half). Pulse scarcely perceptible at the wrist or temples, later, 96 and firm (after four hours); 120, rather small (after six hours); 100, feeble; 106, weak (eleventh day); 86 (twelfth day). At first pulse could not be felt, afterwards 104. Pulse 90 and weak, soon; 95 (after six hours). Pulse 82 (before the proving); 86 (after five minutes); 80 (after ten minutes); 82 (after twenty-five minutes).
Pulse 92 and feeble (after one hour and a half). Pulse 78, quick and small (seventh day). Pulse 72 (before the proving); same (after five minutes); 68 (after fifteen minutes); 72 (before thirty minutes); 68 (after forty-five minutes, and also fifteen and thirty minutes after second dose. Pulse fell from 70 to 65 in three minutes; 60, small and slow, following the diarrhoea an chill, afternoon (second day); 60, after the diarrhoea, in the forenoon (third day). Small, rapid, feeble pulse (like that of abdominal collapse), (after one hour). Pulse rather small (fourth day); in the evening small an contracted, with violent shaking chill. Pulse small. Pulse small and irregular (after half an hour). Pulse small, tremulous, intermittent. Extreme feebleness of the pulse; (twenty-four after 2 scruples). Pulse small and weak. Pulse weak. Radial pulse scarcely perceptible (after four hours). (after nine hours). Pulse scarcely perceptible (after two hours). The pulse at the wrist was imperceptible (after half an hour). Pulsation of the radials disappeared (after two hours).
Pulse imperceptible. The pulse in every case became imperceptible, and even in those who recovered it could not be felt for several hours; this state of the pulse was accompanied with deadly coldness, clammy sweats, sometimes lividity of the nails and fingers.
Neck and Back.
Smarting soreness around the neck, as if chafed by the collar.
Bruised sensation in the back, extending from the shoulders to the loins, on waking (second day). Acute pain in the back, gradually extending down to the thighs, occasioning ere long great torture, and continuing almost to the moment of death (the first symptoms in a patient who had swallowed 1/2 ounce; he died in thirteen hours). Dorsal. Deep burning pain between the scapulae, in the evening (second day). The back feels as if bruised an stiff, in the morning, especially beneath the tip of the left scapula (second day). Pain as if something were sticking beneath the point of the right scapula, very acute, while sitting (second day). Pain as if something were sticking in the right side, below the shoulder, towards the back, in a small spot, which he had indeed frequently experienced, now very acute, while sitting. Lumbar. Intense lumbar pain (second day). Pain in the small of the back, during the whole of the day, somewhat relieved after a hard evacuation (eight day). Pain in the small of the back, on both sides of the spine, in the region of the kidneys (eleventh day). Pain in the lumbar region, between the last ribs an hip, extending towards the right hip during hiccough. Stitches above the hips during hiccough. During yawning, a pressing stitch above the right hip, which takes away his breath. Cold creeping, especially extending upward from the lower portion of the spine.
After rising from the recumbent position, a pain in the region of the right loin, between the last rib an hip. Weakness in the loins and hips, extending down to the lower extremities (from 5 grains 1/10th). Pain shooting down from the loins to the limbs, the patient seeking constant relief in a change of position (in a patient who died in thirteen hours). Sensation of numbness in sacrum. The pain in the sacrum, habitual to him, in the morning, is gone; instead of it bruised sensation in the back, from the shoulders to the loins (second day).
Extremities.
Contractions of the arms and legs. Trembling of the limbs.
Lividity of extremities. Hands, arms, legs, and feet were of a livid color an cold, and she could hardly move the legs at all (after nine hours). Uneasiness in limbs and feet, which he is hardly able to keep quiet for a few minutes at a time. Strange sensation of numbness about his limbs. Numbness and tingling in the extremities, and the legs drawn up toward the abdomen. Oxalic acid has a decided action on the joints, ankle, knee, hip, wrist, shoulder.
Superior Extremities.
Numbness from the shoulders to the tips of the fingers. Numbness in right arm (second day). Sensation of numbness in the left arm (after a quarter of an hour). Shoulder. Sharp shooting pain in the right shoulder-joints, coming on suddenly, and lasting about fifteen minutes (one hour after 3 grains 1/10th). After lying down in bed a twitch in the left deltoid muscle, and in a few minutes one in the right. Upper Arm. Violent pressure pain in the middle of the upper arm, as if in the bone, frequently a jerking, so that he was obliged to stretch and move the arm, the whole evening. The muscles of the upper arm are painful, as if beaten (fourth day). Wrist. Pain, as if sprained, in the right wrist, which he had had for some time, became much worse, in the forenoon; in the afternoon he was frequently obliged to crack it (first day); it returned on the second day; he was obliged to stretch and bend it until it cracked; on both days, while writing, a violent jerking stitch in the ulnar region near the wrist; on the third day it was very distinct and very frequent in the articulation of the ulna; the right wrist was constantly painful, as if it had been sprained or dislocated; if he attempted to lift anything, he was obliged to let it fall; repeated sticking pain in it, especially when writing remained painful; after some weeks it suddenly became so much worse that the slightest motion was intolerable; he was oblige to sit and hold the hand straight up, resting upon the elbow day and night; the pain was frightful; could neither eat nor sleep for several days; at first Causticum speedily relieved; afterwards the hand became better than formerly, an the inclination to stretch and crack the wrist disappeared. Hand. Frequently his hands were involuntarily clenched when awake. Heaviness of the left hand; motion of the fingers follows the will slowly and with difficulty (fourth day). Sensation as if the hand were dead. Fingers.
Fingers contracted, and finger-nails dark. Finger-nail were dark, and remained so for several days. Fingers semi flexed, rigid, the thumbs bent into the palm of the hand (after four hours). Fingers livid (after two hours). A sudden jerking in the metacarpal bone of the left index finger, soon afterwards in the ulnar side of the hand externally, then in the right side of the head, etc.; from time to time, peculiar jerking pains, like short pulsations, in small spots, of only short duration (third day). A piercing burning sticking pain deep internal in the right middle finger, especially in the last phalanx, but also in the other fingers, though less severe, similar to gouty pains, the whole third day.
The fingers of the left hand, especially the index finger, become drawn inward (fourth day). Tingling sensation in fingers (after six hours). Sudden violent thrusts, as with a knife or lancet, in the ball of the left thumb (during stool), (second day). Violent stitches in the ball of the right thumb, in the evening, while writing (fourth day). Tensive pain in the fleshy part of the left thumb, with heat, numbness, and a sensation of swelling, lasting about half an hour (after thirty minutes).
Inferior Extremities.
Blueness, coldness, an almost complete immobility of the lower extremities; had not entirely disappeared after fifteen days; (from 2 drachms). Slight lameness and stiffness in the lower extremities. During the entire day he had frequent cramps in the legs and feet, which were soon relieved by pressure. Hip.
Sticking pain in the right hip-joint. Knee. A very violent contracting pain in the external tendon of the left knee (first day). Great weakness in the knees, on going upstairs, lasting some time after the cessation of other symptoms. Jerking-sliding pain in the hollow of the left knee. Leg an Ankle. Tension in the left calf, while walking; in the afternoon, after diarrhoea (third day). Aching pain in the right ankle-joint, with a feeling of swelling of this part and the whole right foot (from 5 grains 1/10th). Foot and Toe. Sharp shooting pain on the instep of the right foot, lasting for half an hour, at intervals. The same pains the next day, lasting five minutes. Sharp pain in right ankle-joint, several days after the first pains. In the morning on rising, the toes of the right foot are spasmodically flexed, without pain, repeated at noon, after sitting some time (third 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.