Urine red and fiery. Urine light brown, intensely acid, the highest specific gravity 1038, albuminous, containing free Sulphuric acid. On the second day the specific gravity fell, the amount of sulphates became less, the albumen almost entirely disappeared. On the ninth day, though there was no increase in the sulphates, there was again a small amount of albumen, and the microscope showed pale cylinders, with more or less fatty degeneration. This condition persisted; the urine had, in addition, a very copious sediment of urate of ammonia; the amount of urine became more scanty, and during the last days of life the specific gravity was 1028. At this time all trace of chlorides disappeared from the urine. Urine albuminous, with a brownish red sediment containing hematin, but no blood-corpuscles. The urine showed albumen and large amounts of Sulphuric acid. Examination of the urine showed sulphates in large quantities, albumen, pale cylinders, and a varying amount of urates, in addition to free blood-corpuscles.
Sexual Organs.
Male. Warmth in the genitals and scrotum. Exertion during the day without amorous thoughts. Itching pain in the upper margin of the glans penis. Relaxation of the scrotum. Emission without voluptuous sensation. Female. Miscarriage (after some days). Discharge of bloody mucus from the genitals, as if the menses would come on (after two hours). Disagreeable burning leucorrhoea. Leucorrhoea transparent or milk like, without sensation. Frequent discharge of mucus from the vagina, with a corroding sensation (after sixteen days). Menses eight days late, without trouble. Menses six days too early. Menses five days too late, with pain in the abdomen and small of the back.
Great desire for coition in a woman, the inclination to which was rather in the external genitals, yet she was not much excited by coition. Great desire for coition after the menses (after eleven days). Great aversion to coition after the menses (after thirty- eight days).
Respiratory Organs.
Violent bronchitis came on the second week; the patient became very prostrated. In most workers the mucous membrane of the air- passages first becomes affected; this is shown by hoarseness, cough, oppression of the chest, sticking pains; the cough is at first dry without expectoration, afterwards loose, with improvement. Glossitis. Loud rattling of mucus in the larynx.
Rattling of mucus in the trachea and bronchi. Constrictive pain in the larynx. Pain in the larynx; talking was irksome, as if the usual flexibility and mobility of the parts were wanting.
Pains in the larynx, as if sprained, on talking, and on external pressure. Sticking pain in the larynx. Larynx painful to touch.
Larynx excessively sensitive. Larynx very sensitive to pressure.
The larynx was very sensitive to pressure; swallowing difficult and painful. Voice. Hoarseness. Hoarseness; inclination to coryza and cough. Hoarseness; dryness and roughness in the throat and larynx. Excessive hoarseness. Voice hoarse, croaking almost unintelligible. Voice hoarse, hollow, almost unintelligible (after four weeks). Voice hoarse and larynx painful to touch. Voice husky and hoarse. The voice was husky (after half an hour). Voice without sound, husky. Low muttering voice (sixteenth day). Voice very low. Voice feeble. Voice weak, croupy, followed by complete aphonia. Loss of voice. Cough and Expectoration. Cough. Constant cough (after eight days).
Constant hacking cough. Cough, caused by irritation of the fauces, with white frothy expectoration. Very fatiguing cough.
Rattling, shaking, interrupted cough. Cough rattling, hoarse, not croupy. Frequent distressing cough, accompanied by whistling respiration and croupy sound of the voice. Frequent short hacking cough. (Hacking cough). (* Bracket.-HUGHES. *) Cough and coryza, with violent hunger (after fourteen days). Short dry cough, with paroxysms of gasping. Some paroxysms of dry cough (infrequent), also in the morning after rising. Cough only when walking in the open air (sixth day). Cough caused by the open air. Violent paroxysmal cough, with copious expectoration, at times accompanied by vomiting; this was followed by diarrhoea, fever, and night sweats, pain in the chest, offensive breath; percussion at the apex of the right lung was dull; expiration prolonged, vesicular, and hollow, and a peculiar purring noticed over the whole chest; collapse gradually came on, and the patient died in slight delirium after two hundred and eighty-eighth days.
(* The post an opening communicating from the oesophagus to a cavity which occupied nearly the whole of the upper and part of the middle lobes of the right long; the cavity was filled with blackish-brown offensive fluid with lung tissue; the pleura was almost gangrenous, etc. Loose cough, with slimy expectoration, in the morning. At intervals the expectoration was copious, sometimes as much as two pints in twenty-four hours.
Expectoration perpetual (second day). Offensive expectoration. Respiration. Respiration rapid, with shooting in the cervical muscles and movements of the wings of the nose.
Respiration rapid and short. Respiration rapid and difficult.
Breathing rather hurried and difficult. Breathing slow, and moaning as from pain. Respiration short, difficult. Respiration very weak and slow. Respiration short. Difficult respiration.- The moment it touched his lips he began to struggle, and almost immediately exhibited symptoms of suffocation; the child lingered in agony two days, and then death put a period to its sufferings. Difficulty of breathing and pain, followed by cough.
Great difficulty in breathing (after half an hour). Respiration very difficult, accompanied by dull stitches in the air-passages and hawking of much mucus and cough; inspiration was accompanied by pain in the chest. Respiration became very difficult; the larynx moved up and down violently; the child lay with the heat bent backward, as in the last stages of croup; he lost consciousness and soon died. Oppressed breathing and choking in the larynx, frequently at night. Respiration difficult, rattling.
Breathing labored and irregular. Respiration laborious. The breathing embarrassed and noisy.-Respiration 36, heaving, and with violent spasmodic motion of the muscles of the neck, and depression of the lower jaw at each inspiration, so to form a sort of grasping motion (in two hours). Stertor. Respiration very superficial, rattling. Frightful spasms of suffocation.
Suffocation. Dyspnoea. Excessive dyspnoea, causing anxiety (fourth week). Dyspnoea, with great distress and constant pain about the region of the stomach and lower ribs of the right side.
Dyspnoea, with rattling in the trachea. Dyspnoea for a moment, at times. Great dyspnoea, with cough, for two hours, at night (first night).
Chest.
Hemoptysis when walking slowly. Great rattling of mucus in the chest and throat, with difficult respiration, great restlessness, with pains in the larynx and chest, followed by death. Rattling in the left lung, followed by dulness with bronchial respiration and pneumonia, from which the patient recovered. (* It may be remarked, that Prof. Popel has noticed that many cases of poisoning by Sulphuric acid suffer from pneumonia. *) On the fifth day, there was noticed rattling at the base of both lungs, without any dulness on percussion; pulse 112; the cough continued; the sputa was tenacious on the sixth day. On the seventh day, the patient was frightfully pale, with circumscribed redness of the cheeks; the pulse 132; sputa very tenacious; no rales in the lungs were noticed. The eighth day, the patient complained of oppression of the chest; there were found bronchial respiration; in the right side some rales; on the left side moist and rattling rales; respiration 40; violent headache. The next day, the patient was pale, in a clammy sweat, and died towards evening. Rattling in the chest, rapid pulse, short breath, even in bed. Moist rales in the chest. Dulness at the base of the right lung, followed by pneumonia, collapse, and death.
Oppression of the chest. Oppression of the chest, in the morning, with nausea. The chest is oppressed by catarrh, in the morning on waking; there is irritation to cough, without anything to be loosened; after several hours, easy expectoration of mucus.- Painful spasms in the chest. Acute pains along the right lower portion of the ribs, in long paroxysms, especially at night, caused by deep inspiration (examination showed that the pain was due to intercostal neuralgia between the tenth and sixth ribs). Pain in the chest and abdomen, especially in the epigastric region. Constriction of the chest. Fulness in the chest. Such weakness of the chest that she can talk only with difficulty. Cutting pain in front of the left axilla. Stitches in front of and beneath the right axilla. Sticking pressure on the chest and in the throat, stopping the breath, equally violent while standing and walking, relieved in the open air, in persistent paroxysms. Stitches in front of the left axilla on putting down a heavy weight, followed by violent bruised pain over a large part of the sternum. Violent paroxysmal sticking pains in the lower portion of the right thorax, especially on deep inspiration; pressure near the spine, between the fourth and tenth vertebrae, and along the axillary line, from the fifth to the tenth intercostal space, and at the union of the ribs with their cartilages, causing most acute pain; the skin between the linea-axillo mammillaris showed excessive hyperaesthesia (after third week). Sticking pains in the chest.
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.