Stitch in the left great toe, worse on motion, in the evening. A violent stitch in the right great toe.
Generalities
Greatly increased vigor on the following days. Increase of the general health. Increase of muscular activity. Increased muscular power. Emaciation. Extreme emaciation. Reduced almost to a skeleton (tenth day). Rapid emaciation. Emaciation, especially in the hands, so that the veins were very prominent. She turned the head alternately to the right and left, and kept the eyes fixed.
Those who have been often affected by inflammatory catarrh, and these constitute the majority, are strikingly emaciated, sometimes suffer from palpitation of the heart, although the heart or large vessels are not diseased. At one time the patient seemed quiet, as if sleepy, at another made most violent jerking motions of the upper and lower extremities (fourth day). She lay constantly on the right side, throwing the body about, the especially the head. The patient lay upon the left side, with the feet drawn up, because it was impossible to lie in any other position (fourth day). He lay only on the right side, at night.
Dorsal decubitus (fifth day). He walks as if paralyzed, without noticing it himself. Symptoms of paresis of the right side of the face and right arm, followed by complete paralysis of the facial and hypoglossal nerves (second day). Consumption and hectic fever. (* With S. 1490, 1571, 2023.-HUGHES. *) Mucous membranes pale (fifth day). Death caused especially by erysipelas and inflammation. (* In one case all parts of the corpse were luminous. *) The affection of the bone is difficult to characterize; it is not a simple caries, nor is it a simple necrosis; the soft parts detach themselves from the bone to a large extent, and leave below a bony, gray, rough, but solid surface, and a gray fetid suppuration exhales; after an uncertain period this separates, without any appearance of new bone being formed. Swelling of the body (fourth day). Vomiting of nearly pure blood (fifth day). Vomiting, or rather regurgitation, without effort, of nearly pure blood, with very profuse epistaxis, oozing of blood from both ears; the blood of these hemorrhages was very fluid and difficult to coagulate (twenty- first day). The next day the patient raised a little blood from the throat; with these hemorrhages nervous symptoms returned, pain and numbness of the left arm, and afterwards of other extremities, pain in the region of the throat, stricture of the throat, and sensation of suffocation; as the hemorrhages diminished, the skin became more deeply jaundiced. After more than a month the hemorrhage returned; the stools contained a large quantity of pure blood; there was epistaxis, regurgitations of blood in the throat, and haematuria, followed by great prostration, almost complete loss of voice, very feeble pulse, cold extremities, bruit de souffle with the first sound of the heart; these hemorrhages gradually diminished, and ceased entirely after about a week. On the fiftieth day there were renewed haemorrhages from the throat, nose, anus, bladder, with pain in the right iliac fossa and in the thigh of the same side, with weakness of the limbs, so that the patient was unable walk; these renewed haemorrhages lasted several days, except a little blood with the urine, which continued for five days; the patient was very much less prostrated by this haemorrhage then by the preceding. After seventy days blood reappeared in the urine; the patient stated that she had lost as much as two glassfuls of nearly pure blood with the urine. On the next day there was profuse vomiting of blood; the urine continued to be colored by blood for nine days. This patient, even after three months, suffered from weakness, the bruit de souffle in the praecordial region persisted, and though she was pregnant she did not miscarry; the blood seemed to be completely restored, and her vital forces re- established; but afterwards, in the fifth month, she was taken with profuse uterine haemorrhage, which, however, was arrested, and miscarriage did not take place; she passed through her pregnancy, and was delivered without accident, but afterwards she was seized with inveterate diarrhoea, not bloody, which could not be stopped, and which terminated her life eight months after the poisoning. (* Autopsy showed only a slate- colored tint of the whole mucous membrane of the intestinal canal. *) Haemorrhages from free surface and from the tissues.
Orgasm of blood from the customary smoke (after twenty-four hours). Frequent orgasm of blood, with at times violent palpitation. Great orgasm of blood. Orgasm of blood, at night, with chilliness and trembling, together with uneasiness in the intestines. Constant orgasm of blood, in the evening, and feeling of warmth. Rush of blood at night; he hears the rush through the body at the same time. Discharge of blood from various parts of the body, haemoptysis, bleeding of the gums, haemorrhoids, etc.
Small wounds bleed very much. The blood when drawn seemed very pale, and under the microscope exhibited only about twice as many red as white corpuscles (tenth day). A drop of blood drawn from the finger had a grayish-red appearance, containing only twice as many red as white corpuscles (seventeenth day). Very great anaemia remained after the poisoning. (* The patient had taken iron during the latter part of the trouble. *) Extreme anaemia; (sixteenth day). The general appearance is that of a person laboring under typhoid fever, great depression, and general prostration; she can with difficulty raise herself in bed (after three days and a half). The patient presented the phenomena of ataxia and adynamia, that reminded one of typhoid fever. Lax muscular system. Muscles became flabby. General relaxation of muscular power; when going upstairs the muscles of the lower extremities seem to refuse to act, so that she was in danger of falling down. Towards evening an incomplete attack of syncope, whilst drinking a glass of cider (second day). Motions involuntary and uncertain, as one attacked with palsy.
Considerable tremulousness, especially of the hands, whilst writing (third day). Trembling. Tremulousness, in the morning, with perceptible jerking in the limbs (after eight days).
Muscular tremors, amounting even to clonic spasms, contraction, and general convulsions; symptoms of collapse, with weakness of the heart, but perfect consciousness, followed by death.
Trismus, with clonic spasms of the limbs, dilated and insensible pupils, profuse sweat, and death (after ten days). Convulsions.
General convulsions, that lasted almost without intermission for two days (after which the patient lived for three days). Convulsions. on the fourth day preceding death. Convulsively agitated (after seven days). Convulsed, followed by death.
Symptoms if irritant poisoning, with convulsive attacks, apparently of an hysterical kind; she died at the end of seventy- seven hours. Spasms, followed by death (tenth day). Spasms. One worker, especially exposed to the fumes, was attacked with fatal tonic spasms (the post-mortem showed spinal arachnitis and partial softening of the spinal cord). Weariness, on walking, with pains in the limbs (after three weeks). The patient complained of great weariness. Great weariness. After getting the feet a little wet and cold, weariness in all the limbs, burning in the hands, headache and lying down, followed the next day by coryza. Unusual weariness from a short walk, with some headache.
Weariness and exhaustion of the whole body, in the morning, after waking, disappearing after rising. Weariness in the whole body, especially in the thighs, in a usually robust man (after nine days). So weary in the afternoon after a little wine that he was obliged to sleep for a few hours, followed by a sleepless night (after forty-eight hours). Great debility. Weakness; (sixth day).
Weak, oppressed sensation all day. Frequent sudden attacks of great weakness. Weak and sick, towards noon, without cause; was obliged to lie down for an hour (after fifteen days). Great weakness, with nausea. Much weakness, in the morning, on rising.
Weakness and prostration. Great weakness, in the morning, on rising, and during the day general sick feeling, heartburn, and after rapid motion ravenous hunger and trembling of the limbs.
Hysterical weakness, so that she could scarcely move the leg, with constant yawning, uprising, and distress and pressure on the chest. Great weakness of the whole body. So weak that he was unable to work. Very weak; could lie only on his back (seventh day). She feels very weak (especially in the evening) during the menses; has pain in the back, as if beaten and torn, drawing in the whole body, palpitation, with anxiety, griping above the stomach, with constrictive pain; is weary and weak, even to sinking down, and cannot keep up on account of great nausea; is obliged to lie down. Weak, sore, and almost helpless. Even those patients who are affected in a slighter degree are in a state of excessive weakness. General weakness, with evening fever. Sudden weakness; (first day). Extreme weakness and prostration (after fifty-one hours). Very weak and almost speechless (fifth 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.