Discouraged about his health. Anthropophobia. Horrible fearfulness, late in the evening, as if a horrible face were looking out from every corner. Fear and dread, in the evening. An indescribable feeling of fright. Very easily frightened.
Frightened feeling, as if I was about to be run over by a locomotive. The world was frightful to him, only weeping could relieve him; soon afterwards complete dulness and indifference.
Did not like to be alone. Felt nervous, as if I were going to die. Very ill-humored. Ill-humor during the last days of the proving;she became exceedingly sensitive to the crying of a child, which affected her very unpleasantly, which had never before been the case. Ill-humored; (third day). Very bad humor, even under the best circumstances. Ill-humored and fretful. He woke very ill-humored every night after midnight. Out of humor with everything, sad, fretful. Very irritable mood; every word excites her and she becomes despondent on account of it. Very irritable mood. Very irritable and fretful mood (second day).
Very irritable an excited mood, so that she was excited by the least trifle. Mental irritability, uncommon vehemence in argument (third day). Irritable and peevish. Very peevish before dinner at the merest trifle, followed by a sensation of heat an then pressure in the stomach; afterward nausea, with much heat in the face, an complete loss of appetite. Very peevish, and unable to forget the cause of vexation. Very peevish, in the forenoon. More peevish than ever. Felt exceedingly petulant all day; nothing went right; felt as dissatisfied with myself as with others; seemed as if everybody said or did something to provoke me. Very much affected, even by a slight vexation. Vexation causes violent anger and rage. Great vexation from the slightest cause, with cold hands, hot face, and palpitation. Vexed, so that he was beside himself at every trifle. She is very easily vexed. Very easily provoked to anger. Obstinate. Tenderness (secondary action). Tender mood. Very capricious, sensitive. Indifferent to her child, of whom she was usually fond. Extremely discontented.
Discontented and irresolute. My wants were numerous and varied.
Great indifference to everything. Feeling of indifference, with prostration and heaviness of the head, in the evening (first day). Indifferent mood (first day); (fifth day). Indifferent.
Intellectual. Increased activity, during the first days. (* Not found.-HUGHES. *) My mind became very clear; I could remember with the utmost distinctness my past life; orations delivered during college days I could rehearse word for word, and tell the day and circumstances attending their delivery; lectures I had heard years before came before my mind (after twenty-three hours). Rush of ideas that were difficult for her to put in order. Distracted in mind, though inclined to work. Disinclined to work, and unhappy, though without confusion of the head.
Disinclination for every work. For one or two months there was very great indisposition to mental or physical exertion, much more marked than that which almost every one feels and knows under the name of “spring fever.” Disinclination to study or converse. Disinclination to study. No inclination to work.
Aversion to thought or mental activity. Inability to think. Could not study nor keep his mind on any particular subject long at a time. Slow flow of ideas, absence of mind. Forgetful and dizzy. Forgetful and stupid, so that he did something quite different from what he wished. Loss of intelligence (tenth day).
Consciousness remained perfect to the last. Seems stupid, at night, on waking. Patient stupid, tossing about the bed, frequently rising up, and calling out the names of people. Stupid (fourth day). The patient is very stupid; at times screams out without apparent cause (sixth day). Stupefaction (third day); (fourth day). Stupefaction, followed by death. Lay most of the time in a stupor, from which he could be roused, however, for an instant, only to lapse back into low muttering lethargy (tenth and eleventh days). Recognized no one (after seven days).
Frequently failed to recognize those about (tenth and eleventh days). Loss of senses, as if he could not grasp any thought, with headache. Unable to collect his senses, in the morning on rising; the head is dizzy, heavy, and painful, as if he had been lying at night with the head too low. He took no notice of things which were passing about him, but his responses were always correct (third day). Seems dumb and dazed for many days. Consciousness impaired (fourth night). Seemingly unconscious, and perfectly quiet, except when, at intervals of from two to three minutes, tetanic spasms with opisthotonos occurred (after one hour).
Senses impaired. The period of twelve days was to the patient almost a complete blank; he remembered scarcely anything which occurred during that time. Unconscious (sixth day). Loss of consciousness, and quiet, alternating with restlessness (eleventh day). Sudden loss of consciousness, with screaming, attempts to escape, biting and sobbing by paroxysms, after which she lay quiet for some time (fifth day). Unconsciousness, with convulsions and black vomiting (followed by death). Sudden loss of consciousness, restlessness and tossing about the bed, groaning and crying aloud, pulse 140, followed by collapse and death, after five days. Entirely unconscious, with throwing of the hands and feet about the bed (fourth day). She soon became unconscious, and so remained for over twenty-four hours; during this condition she frequently changed her position, often drew her legs up against the abdomen; there was a low temperature, 31.2 0 in the axilla, 31.8 0 in the anus. The patient was completely apathetic, pupils insensible to light, pulse small, thready, 80, respiration 30, inspiration short, expiration long and stertorous; the heart gradually became weak, an the patient died. Loss of consciousness, coldness; followed by convulsions and death (fourth day). Sopor, with great restlessness, followed by coma and death. After the cessation of the sickness, the child lay in a drowsy, stupid, and comatose condition, till within a few hours of its death, when it was seized with convulsions, and died in one of the paroxysms. She continued getting more drowsy, and died comatose (third day). The patient became partly comatose, although the intellect was not impaired, shortly before death. Coma, followed by death. Prostration, followed by coma and death. Comatose state, cries, trismus, death (eleventh day). Coma (fifth day); (ninth, tenth, and eleventh days); (fourth day).
Head
Confusion, with dulness and pressure in the head, without real pain (second day). Confused uncomfortable feeling in the head, in the morning, after rising. Confused headache, as in impending coryza. Long-continued confusion of the head, as if he had not slept enough. Confusion of the head. The head became so confused. after dinner, that she could scarcely collect her senses. Head dull, confused (after four days). Confused feeling in the head (fifteenth day). Violent vertigo, in the evening, while waking; everything seemed to turn about; while standing it disappeared, and returned while walking. Vertigo. so violent at noon that he came near falling from a chair. Transient but violent vertigo, in the evening, lasting ten seconds. Attack of vertigo, so that he did not know exactly where he was, every day, after dinner. Vertigo several times a day; she staggered while walking, so that people might think her intoxicated. Vertigo, followed by nausea and pressing-down-ward pain in the middle of the brain, with stupefaction, and sensation as if he would tumble down, in the morning and after dinner; then, in the afternoon, nausea, heartburn, red face, an sensation as if something were seated in the throat, with sadness and weeping without cause; in the evening, mistiness before the eyes and itching of the eyelids. Vertigo, in the morning, constantly increasing, like a heavy pressing downward of the forepart of the head, with a faintish nausea, and on stooping, blackness before the eyes, with much sneezing, lasting till evening, relieved in the open air (after seven days). Vertigo, in the morning, after rising from bed. Vertigo, so that he tumbled about, in the morning, after rising. Vertigo, in the forenoon; also while walking everything turned around with her; she staggered, and did not have a firm step. Vertigo, frequently at noon, so that on going out he had to take great care to prevent falling. Sensation of vertigo, in the afternoon, as if the chair upon which he was sitting was much higher that usual, and as if he were looking downward, followed by a hypochondriac mood, with sleepiness and weakness, lasting till towards 9 P.M. A kind of vertigo, after eating, in the evening; objects seem partly dark and invisible, with flickering zigzags and rings before the eye, preventing vision; the head seems to turn around; he does not really know whether he is really sitting upon the chair. Awoke with violent vertigo and nausea, about 10 P.M. Vertigo, with headache, and accumulation of much saliva; she was obliged to spit a great deal, for three days. Attack of vertigo, as if it turned him around; afterwards he found himself standing, with outstretched arms, as if he had attempted to take hold of something to steady himself. On closing the eyes, vertigo, as if she were whirling around. The vertigo which she had at times, in a very slight degree, became much frequent and persistent, so that for several hours she felt as if intoxicated. Vertigo, with dulness or stupefaction of the head, as if her senses would vanish, at times, on coming into warm room from the open air. Vertigo, on rising from a seat. Vertigo, as though the head were turning in a circle, in the evening, in bed.
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.