Indomitable rage. After fifteen minutes, giddy; loss of senses; sleepy, finally asleep with more or less open eyes. When disturbed, she jumped up in a rage, and said a few unintelligent words; when others sang she commenced to dance. Her pulse was slow and full; mouth very dry; lasted twenty-four hours, without eating or drinking anything. Periodic raving; he attacked the people in the room with great violence and endeavored to bite them. Raving (after six hours); sometimes reasonable answers.
Raving. She began to cry, when her mother taking her up, she became furious, and began to scratch and bite (after one hours), Easily excited to anger, and is then very vehement and furious (after two months); had been, previous to the poisoning, quite mild and gentle. Raving furiously; screaming, tossing his hands, and striking at whatever approached him. One became furious and ran about like a madman, the other died, with the symptoms of genuine tetanus. Very passionate and great feebleness (second day). The child wanted to bite and strike at those around her.
Great cerebral disturbance, accompanied with starting, muttering, occasional screaming, and catching at imaginary objects; frequent maniacal paroxysms, alternating with moaning, apparently occasioned by the condition of the epigastrium and the abdominal distension. After emetics and purgatives, the stage of excitement passed away and was succeeded by a state of depression and strong comatose tendency. They got wild, ran about the room, jumping, talking nonsense; saw chickens and cats, spoke to them, also to their toys. After the usual treatment, for about twenty minutes, the child went to sleep, and woke in about twenty minutes, and was like a mad child; it would hold out its hands as though it wanted a glass of water, then bring them to its mouth and sup as if it were drinking water or other fluid; it would put its fingers into its mouth and even bite them, and also its mother’s fingers, whenever she put them about its mouth, also screaming incessantly. Their attention could not be aroused to anything which was said, and they resisted all attempts at interference with piteous cries and violent struggling. Child so wild and restless as to be controlled with difficulty, and in raging delirium, biting with fury at those who restrained him.
Very noisy when shaken, and sat up with his eyes open, with a fixed dilated pupil, quite insensible to a lighted candle. He made numerous signs which could not be interpreted by those about him. Some had twitchings, startings, and catching at imaginary objects, and other symptoms of cerebral disturbance. In all the graver cases, the stage of excitement was succeeded by excessive drowsiness and depression of pulse, with much prostration.
Restless, uneasy, tossing, throwing herself suddenly forward; striving to get out of bed; grasping with her hands vaguely, as though under the influence of spectral illusions; picking at the bedclothes. While in bed lying on right side, screamed and said that the bed was being drawn from under her, and that everything was falling on her; kept holding on to the walls; asked her mother not to leave her, as something was going to hurt her; all this lasted from 9.30 P.M. till midnight, when she slept. Since then she has not liked to be left alone in the dark. While sitting on a sofa, fancied she was falling off, kept holding on to everything; at the same time was sick, about 2 P.M. In his conscious moments he asked to be held because he was falling.
There seemed at times to be motions indicating that the patient thought she was falling, and used every exertion to prevent it.
Constant staring about, then a fixed gaze (in one direction) for one or two minutes, with sudden startings (not interrupting the fixed look) of the arms and lower extremities, accompanied with low mutterings, then sudden and furious screaming, biting, scratching, and tearing with the hands, and kicking (after six hours). When allowed to get up she staggered, and appeared quite blind. He hurries off too fast, with all his might, if he wants to go to another place. Great exertion of strength; a strong man could scarcely restrain him. (He jumps out of his bed, at night, and exclaims the disease will break forth from his head).
Constantly springing up in haste, restless, twitching, grasping about with hands and beating the air. He grasps at things quickly and in a hurry and thinks he has seized a thing before touching it, and if he does hold the object, he does not feel that he has hold of it (after four and five hours). He makes all motions hastily, with great force and hurriedly, so that he feels an anxiety if he cannot finish them at once. From the expression of his face and movements, he seemed at times to be chasing or fleeing from imaginary objects. He can nowhere obtain rest, he is terrified by fanciful delusions (even though his eyes are open), they appear to him to grow out of the ground at his side, in the form of large dogs, cats, and other horrible beasts, from which he springs away to one side, with signs of terror, and cannot get rid of them. Continually strange objects intrude upon his fancy, frightening him. (Frightful fancies, he sees ghosts).
(Frightful delirium, as if a dog took hold of her). He sees in general more horrifying images at his side than in front of him, and they all occasion terror (between three and four hours).
Wonderful fancies. (* Add, in his sleep.-HUGHES. *) The boy seemed to see black objects, spoke of black people and black clouds, and grasped at the air. The patient had a constant vision of an executioner standing before him, in spite of which he was lively, talkative, laughed, and made jokes about his hallucinations, yet it seemed to him a reality. Fancied that she saw objects that did not exist, and had repeatedly a sensation of flashing light, which made her think that she saw it lighten.- After a time the involuntary convulsive movements of the limbs and the body seemed to change to more voluntary movements, as if the boy were acting in pantomime, though at times real convulsions occurred; after two hours (and after a bath) he began to move his mouth as if he wished to speak; this continued for some time, until he tried to utter articulate sounds, which became more and more distinct; the first words he spoke were “Take care, I shall strike;” after a time he seemed to be living in a perfectly ideal childish world, with games of school, etc.; these ideas seemed to alternate in a loose way with speeches, songs and verses, which were recited and sung in various tones; also he seemed to be eating berries, cherries, etc., made chewing motions with his mouth, and counted with his fingers; in all these acts he seemed to be playing and happy; all his ideas seemed to consist of mere reproductions; there was nothing original, and there were no new combinations. She appeared occupied with hallucinations, her gaze was fixed, and she seemed trying to reach towards something which she saw. For some days the patient was affected with hallucinations, and thought that one side of him was alive, while the other side was buried. At times, when under the influence of the poisons, she seemed to herself to be engaged in her usual avocation, and would thus thread her needle, tie the knot at the end, and imitate in every respect the routine procedure of one thus engaged. (* She is a seamstress by trade. *) At one time the child seemed to hear and paid attention when spoken to, at other times paid no attention, and seemed unconscious, and was, apparently, occupied with hallucinations and fancies. He walks about the room absorbed in himself, with fixed, sparkling eyes, surrounded by blue rings, but takes no notice of surrounding objects, but is solely occupied with the objects of his fancy. The boy repeatedly said there were “big sores” on him (first evening). He imagines that he is very tall and large, but the surrounding objects seem to him too small. He always imagines that he is alone, and is frightened. After waking all these appear to him as if new, even his friends, as if he had never seen them. The apartment seemed all on fire. He converses with absent individuals as if they were present, and addresses inanimate objects (as chessmen) by the names of such persons, but observes none of those standing about him. The things and persons around him appear to be changed; although he knows at first that his friends are around him, and yet he forgets it immediately after; he imagines that he is quite alone in a wilderness, abandoned; he is afraid; animals jump suddenly out of the ground sideways, so that he moved quickly to the other side, where, however, others start up, pursuing him so that he runs forward. He dances at night in the churchyard. He jumped and danced about the bed and knocked against the wall with incessant and disconnected talking and great violence, without the slightest consciousness; he laughed, stared about him and talked in the most foolish manner. An incoherent delirium, imagining herself surrounded by objects that had no existence; her vagaries were of a pleasant character, and created great merriment with the other children present.
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.