Longing for a distant friend, in the evening, before falling asleep. Avoids society. Naturally cheerful, his spirits became depressed, and he became very nervous. Extreme apprehension. Anxiety, with difficult respiration, so that the patient seemed almost suffocated from fright; he could get his breath only while sitting. Anxiety. Anxiety and sighing. Extreme anxiety. Frightful anxiety. Great anxiety. during which she could not take a sufficiently deep breath, with increased palpitation (after three- quarters of an hour).
Discouragement. Distrust. Fear; easily frightened. Uneasiness. Extreme restlessness. Discontented with his circumstances in the morning, on waking. Ennui; was out of sorts with everything (after six hours). Ennui, quiet reserve, in the afternoon. Hypochondriacal and peevish. Very much out of humor and weary of life. Out of humor, all work frets her, in the afternoon. Irritable. Great irritability. The child was sensitive and fretful, whenever any one approached; it cried and whined a great deal and would not play. Morose mood, disinclination to talk to any one, and frequent attempts to escape; this morose mood at times alternated with the most lively mood, during which he laughed immoderately, without reason, accompanied by hallucinations of mind. Complete indifference, with sopor, alternating with extreme difficulty of breathing and headache. Intellectual.
Extremely active, absorbed in work, thoughtful, in the afternoon. Mental indolence. Less inclination to work. Very indolent, disinclined to work. The desire and ability for work were very much diminished (third day). Indolent, weary (after three-quarters of an hour). Disinclined to talk, after dinner. No disposition to work. Indisposition to labor and conversation. The intelligence and power of utterance vary curiously at different times. The intellect more or less disturbed. Thought and speech difficult. Cannot fix his thoughts upon anything. Reading is very tiresome to him; he mistakes one word for another, and skips the lines. Slow of perception. His answers are slow and short. Intellect seemed affected; answers not so rational. Answers slowly, and in a weak voice.
Answers at random. Answers questions vaguely; and admits that his memory is much impaired. He answers well enough, but this evening made a mistake in giving his age. Sometimes utters a few broken, disconnected words. Memory much impaired; sometimes does not know his own bed. Loss of memory, so that while talking he was often unable to find the proper word. Loss of memory. Memory difficult. Remarkably weakness of memory. Loss of mind. Intellect clear, but memory seems much impaired. Weakness of memory (fourth day). Has been much troubled for twenty years by a singular cerebral affection, returning at intervals, and characterized by restlessness, constant inclination to move about, loss of memory, and indecision. This mental condition has several times obliged him to enter a hospital. He does not recollect either the dates of the duration of these seizures, nor anything respecting their treatment. Loss of understanding. Memory is much impaired.
Slightly lethargic. Apathetic condition. Gradually increasing apathy. Her mind at first was stupid. Tendency to stupor.
Mental torpidity; answers slow and stammering. Intellect obscure.
Takes no notice of anything about him, unless aroused by pain or an attendant. While hard at work, and apparently in the best of health, he suddenly fell back unconscious; no spasms, foaming at the mouth, etc. She fell down unconscious while attempting to walk, soon. Loss of all senses, with constantly recurring, most violent general convulsions. For the most part unconscious, but at intervals he answered promptly the questions that were put to him. For the most part unconscious, but occasionally had lucid intervals. Scarcely recognizes his nurse. Loss of consciousness. Loss of consciousness, occasionally returning, followed by epileptiform. spasms, with bloody froth from the mouth; succeeding these attacks there was left-sided paralysis of motion and sensation. Lies motionless and crouched together; eyes shut or half shut. Often snores as if in the deepest sleep. Now and then he utters some dull grunts; makes some automatic movements; half opens his eyes and shuts them directly. Cannot be roused by the sharpest questioning; has to be pinched hard; then he opens his eyes, at first partially, then widely; and finally, without answering, falls back into lethargy. Sometimes, when annoyed by these experiments, he turns in bed, and makes a dull grunting, indicative of his displeasure. After working hard all day, feeling quite well, he took supper as usual, but on rising from table suddenly fell back unconscious, without spasms, foaming at the mouth, or paralysis. Was taken to bed, and in about three-quarters of an hour recovered consciousness, but was somewhat delirious. Next day this wild delirium continued, but nevertheless he walked to the hospital with some companions.
Suddenly fell back unconscious, without convulsions or foam at the mouth. Two minutes after he raised himself up and said, “It is nothing.” Next moment he was trying to reach the bed of one of his fellow-patients, when, for the second time he suddenly fell unconscious. without the slightest spasm, either then or afterwards; he was carried to bed in this condition, and remained in a state of profound coma, from which he could not be roused for two or three hours. At the end of this time he opened his eyes, now and then, and talked about all sorts of things, imagined he was spoken to, answered his neighbors, and then relapsed into somnolency.
This alternation of coma and loquacity lasted a great part of the night. Next morning he was found apparently fast asleep; at the end of an hour he appeared to rouse up suddenly, half opened his eyes, uttered a great many disconnected words, tossed about in bed, rose and urinated on his pillows, put his head down and lifted his buttock in the air, then relapsed into coma. If he was pinched or very sharply spoken to, during his lethargy, he at first would open his eyes and then shut them directly; at last, by continuing the use of stimulants, he was made to open his eyes completely; they were fixed and while looking. If now he was questioned earnestly, he would else he would stammer out some disconnected words, and then fall back into coma. Lies on his back, crouched together, quiet and sleepy, eyes shut or half shut. At times snores as if sound asleep. Rouses from this state of sopor only to utter a few inarticulate words in a weak voice, half open his eyes and immediately close them again. When stimulated, as by pinching, he at first gives evidence of no sensation whatever, but if the stimulation is kept up for some time, he slowly draws away the part operated on, and then opens his eyes, which look quite wild; rolls them about stupidly, and returns no answer when questioned; falling back finally into lethargy. His features are motionless and inexpressive; at times, some automatic movements of the head and arms take place. Intellectual torpor. Stupefaction and deep coma.
He fell down stupefied. Complete stupefaction and insensibility. from which, however, he could be roused by loud cries, but gradually sank back into his former condition, murmuring unintelligible words. Seems to be always asleep; it is hard to rouse him from this state of coma, and he only wakes enough to half open his eyes, and answer everything with yes or no, indistinctly uttered in a loud voice, then turns over in bed and falls asleep again. If, after being well shaken, he is asked where he feels pain, he points slowly towards the umbilicus; he says and does everything very slowly. Alternate coma and delirium. Coma, lasting three weeks.
Coma. Coma succeeded, at 4 P.M., by another epileptic fit, soon after which he begins to talk at random. About midnight, after a violent epileptic fit, he fell into a profoundly comatose state, from which he could not be aroused. Lay doubled up in bed, with eyes closed and pupils widely dilated. Coma, with at times automatic movements of hands to the occiput.
The nurse said that the coma supervened upon a violent epileptic fit, which seized the patient about midnight. Comatose state, from which he arouses when spoken to.
Head
Vertigo. Vertigo, etc. Vertigo, almost immediately; everything seemed to tremble and whirl before her. Vertigo, immediately. Frequent vertigo. Vertigo, and intoxication in the head. Vertigo, on stooping or on looking up (eighth day). Vertigo and convulsions. An attack of vertigo, of short duration. One patient had vertigo and convulsions several times. Often suddenly seized with slight attacks of vertigo. Frequent dizziness (second day). A dizzy feeling, vanishing in the open air (after two hours and three-quarters). Attacks of giddiness. Giddiness frequently, when stooping. General Head. Trembling of the head.
Head turned to the right, its rotation to the left being prevented by paralysis of the sternocleidomastoid muscle of that side. Heaviness of the head. Heaviness of the whole head, especially in the occiput, with slight stitches in the sinciput (after two hours). Heaviness of the head; it falls forward (after two hours and a half). Heaviness in the whole head, except in the occiput, with slow stitches in the sinciput.
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.