Stupefaction, etc. Stupefaction, from which he at times started up in a wild manner, opened his eyes, which were partly closed, but could not keep them open; spoke disconnectedly, quarrelled with his mother, whom he did not know; his face was very red, cheeks glowing hot, with dry heat over the whole body; at times he moved his lips and tongue, called for liquid; throbbing carotids, full, very rapid pulse, rapid respiration; pupils excessively dilated, insensible; swallowing difficult.
Stupefaction of the senses; some always laugh, but hear and see nothing, although they always have it before their eyes, they also speak well and answer all questions, although the whole is like a dream to them. Obscuration of all the senses, with anxiety, followed by shivering on the back with sweat. Deep stupor, for an hour and a half. Stupor, anxiety, convulsions of the limbs and involuntary weeping, with an elderly woman; increased very much by drinking coffee, soon cured by vinegar.
(* Taken from Hearing. *) Dulness of sense, loss of reason.
He went to bed after taking a dose, at 7 A.M., and never woke till 11 A.M.; he was then drowsy and incapable of understanding what was going on around. When brought to the dispensary, he appeared as if under the influence of spirits, with strong fever.
He was dull sleepy, and stupid for two or three days, with remains of the fever and excitement. He does not seem to notice the objects around him, and he really does not notice them.
After waking, he does not recognize anything around him; he takes his book and goes to school, but he enters by the wrong door (after six hours). She did not recognize her friends during the paroxysms; and afterwards retained no remembrance of the occurrence. Sitting half unconscious, the upper body bent backwards; gagging and pushing out of his mouth a white froth; lips bluish, swollen; lids closed; eyes dim; pupils dilated.
Suffered great thirst, and complained of general lassitude and great weariness. Vinegar; next day better. Patient recognizes no one, paid no attention to the loudest calls, constantly turned the head from side to side. He was quiet insensible to sound, seeming not to hear the loudest talking; rousing and shaking him had not effect; his eyes were partially open, and the pupils more dilated than I ever have seen. The stupor was of a drunken kind; there was no disposition to sleep, but a constant restlessness and turning of the body, attended by a most peculiar fidgety manner of twisting the fingers and catching at some imaginary object. This was varied now and then, by grasping the bedclothes very tight; his body was warm, more from his exercise of the arms than any other perceptible cause; the tongue was always rolling; the pulse rather quick; and the patient often shrank, as if suffering from a creeping sensation over his body. He found the child in bed unconscious. Quite insensible; in two hours the pupils were fixed and dilated; all the muscles of the body convulsed, the countenance flushed and the pulse full and slow, two hours after. He remained perfectly unconscious and could not be roused, paid no heed to the loudest shouting, did not feel the smartest pinching; while the arms and legs, when lifted, fell flaccid and lifeless (after seven hours). Great insensibility of all the senses. Stupor in a few hours, soon followed by obstinate insomnia, and in one case delirium. She was unable to take any food, to see, hear, speak, or feel. Insensibility, etc.
Complete insensibility, unable to swallow any fluid, or to be aroused sufficiently to take the least notice of me or her friends. Sopor alternating with delirium. Deep sopor, followed by death. Complete insensibility (after two hours). Nearly comatose. Coma, etc., Profound coma. Comatose state, he appeared stunned and his resolution was impaired.
Head.
Confusion and Vertigo. Confusion in the head. Head confused and befogged for many days. Vertigo, etc. Vertigo, with diarrhoea.
Vertigo, with redness of face. Slight vertigo, with feeling of falling to the left, when standing after sunset, at 9 P.M. (sixth day). Slight vertigo, or rather an exhilaration of spirits.
Vertigo, with staggering gait. Vertigo, and flickering before the eyes. Vertigo when standing (after four hours); (eighth day). Vertigo; staggered as if drunk; feared he should fall on his head, and that he was about to, lose his senses (soon).
Vertigo; the head feels as if drawn backwards, at the same time he is excessively sleepy. Vertigo, want of thought, four mornings in succession, after rising from bed; he has but a dull and distant recollection of things (weakness of memory), and he sees as if through a gauze, for two hours. Vertigo, headache, dimness of vision, violent thirst, viscid mucus in the mouth, rumbling in the bowels, and pain in the epigastrium. Vertigo, with pain in the abdomen and obscured vision, like a veil before the eyes. Vertigo, so that he staggers hither and thither, as if drunk. Vertigo almost immediately; he went into the open air, but had walked only a few paces when he reeled like one intoxicated, and almost lost his senses. In middle of day, while reading in open air and walking, sudden dizziness, staggering, as if he would fall forward and to the left (fourth day). Grew giddy and fell to the ground. She became giddy and staggered.
Some giddiness during the first two or three days. Giddiness, when writing by gaslight, at 8 P.M. (first day). He becomes giddy when sitting and standing in the room; he reels.
Giddiness, dilated pupils, flushed face, glancing of the eyes, and incoherence, so that he seemed to his friends to be intoxicated, and subsequently there was incessant unconnected talking, like that of dementia. Giddy, when kneeling, at 9.30 A.M.; when sitting, as if the head went round to the right, at 10.45 A.M. (sixth day). When being put to bed, felt giddy in forehead; could scarcely see anything; all seemed dim, about 9 P.M. Giddiness when walking; unsteady walking and faint feeling, so that I was obliged to go into a shop and sit down (second day). Drunkenness (after eight hours). Drunkenness and heavy feeling of the body (after one hour). Drunkenness, with thirst, and a profuse flow of burning urine. The next morning all appeared in a state of intoxication, and two died. She resembled one intoxicated next morning. Staggering. Staggering when he walked. Although he staggers, yet the limbs obey the will so readily that he feels as if he had none; they seemed to him much longer than they were, so that when walking he thinks he has already touched the floor, when the foot is yet six inches away from it; hence he always puts down the foot too quickly.
Tendency to stagger backwards, at 9.45 P.M. (sixteen days).
Staggered in attempting to walk, and would have fallen but for support. Staggered and appeared as if intoxicated (after half an hour). She staggered on attempting to walk, and occasionally there was a convulsive staring of the lower limbs and a backward flexure of the spine. Unsteady, half-staggering feeling while walking, in the evening; it was a very slight swaying to either side or forwards, like drunkenness (seventh day); occasional staggering when walking (eighth day). Staggering to left in a dark room, after sunset (after twelve hours and a quarter).
Staggering backwards when standing after going downstairs, at 6.45 P.M. (sixth day). Unsteady when walking in the dark, with tendency to fall backwards, in the evening after sunset (sixteenth day). in the evening, after sunset, unsteadiness when walking (first day); at 1 p.m., walked somewhat in a circle to the left (second day). He is unable to walk alone; he falls unless he is held. Reeling gait. Reeled as thought intoxicated (soon). He reels about the room and seems to be seeking something. He stumbles against the door whenever he goes through it. General Head. The head began to swell with the internal feeling of fulness, as if ready to burst (after third dose).
After the swoon there remains a spasm of the head to either side, with redness of face. (Convulsive drawing of the head, with grinding of the teeth.) (Convulsive drawing only of the head and eyes, with snoring). (Convulsive drawing of the head only to both sides, with crying out; raising of the arms over the head). Frequent rolling and turning the head, as if in search of its parents, with wild screams; desire to escape (after four hours).
(Moving of the head hither and thither, interrupted by hiccough).
(Early in the morning moving of the head hither, and thither, with excessive thirst). Frequent raising of the head from the pillow. Apoplexy. Smoking St. James’s weed for asthma disposes to apoplexy. Rush of blood to the head. Violent congestion of the head (after half an hour). Stupid head, with dim vision. Stupid feeling in the head. She feels dull, stupid in the head, and almost insensible and indifferent to everything and everybody around her. Dulness of the head. Heaviness of the head. Head full and heavy (after twenty minutes). Weight on the head.
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.