Common name: Tobacco.
Introduction
Nicotiana tabacum, Linn.
Natural order: Solanaceae.
Preparation: Tincture of the leaves.
Mind
Emotional. Quiet delirium, murmuring to herself. He went to sleep in the cabin, which was full of large packages of tobacco, but was harassed by wild and frightful dreams, and suddenly awaked about midnight, bathed in a cold dew, and totally unable to speak or move. He knew, however, perfectly where he was, and recollected everything that had occurred the preceding day; he could not make any bodily effort whatever, and tried in vain to get up, or change his position. p73 The watch on deck struck four bells, and he counted them, though it seemed to him as if he did not hear the beat, but received the vibration through his body. About this time a seaman came into the cabin with a light, and carried away an hour-glass without observing the sufferer.
Shortly after a pane of glass was broken in the skylight, and he saw the fragments of glass drop on the floor. These circumstances which really occurred, are mentioned to show that Mr. H. experienced real sensations, and was not still under the influence of perturbed dreams. His inability to move was not accompanied by any pain or uneasiness, but he felt as if the principle of life had entirely departed from his frame. At length he became totally insensible, and continued so till an increase of wind made the sea a little rough, which caused the vessel to roll. The motion, he supposes, had the effect of awakening him from his trance, and he contrived somehow or other to get up and go on deck. His memory was totally lost for about a quarter of an hour; he knew that he was in a ship, but nothing more. While in this state he observed a man drawing water from the sea in buckets, and requested him to pour one on his head.
On the seaman doing so, all his faculties were immediately restored, and he acquired a most vivid recollection of a vast variety of ideas and events which appeared to have passed through his mind, and to have occupied him during the time of his supposed insensibility. By loud calling and vigorous shaking, he was aroused from his comatose condition, when he began in a high state of nervous excitement to cry, “Oh, my head! Oh, my head!” at the same time clutching his forehead with his hands, and staring wildly about him. At one time, in great trepidation, he begged that some imaginary bottles should be taken out of the room; indeed; his conduct and appearance at this time were not unlike one suffering with delirium tremens. After a time the patient changed from a state of stupor into one of wild intoxication, started up in bed with ridiculous, foolish talking, accompanied by convulsive movements and spasms of the facial muscles. Complete intoxication. Felt as if intoxicated with spirituous liquid (after one hour). Extreme agitation.
Intoxication for more than twenty-four hours. (The Mexican priests incite courage and bravery by means of an ointment of tobacco). Great joyfulness and talkativeness, as from intoxication (first day). Frequent laughter without cause. She sings the whole day (twelfth day). Joyful and lively, second and third days. She is very lively and jolly, danced about on one leg for joy, and laughs without reason nearly all day (first day). He was queer for days after, the principal symptom being weak and irritable pulse. Misanthropy. Very morose and fretful (first day). Despondency. Low spirits, want of resolution and general hypochondriasis. Gloom, hypochondria, apprehensions of sudden death. Most profound gloom, constant fear of death, yet attempting suicide. Nervous and hypochondriac. Psychical alternation and hypochondria in a high degree. Hypochondria in a high degree. Extremely hypochondriac mood (first day). Anxiety.
Anxiety and sickness (woman). Anxiety on being alone at night.
Anxiety with very depressed, melancholy thoughts while walking (third day). Uneasiness and anxiety in the afternoon, as if some misfortune would occur (tenth day). Apprehensive and insensible.
Apprehensive towards evening, several days. Apprehension and anxiety occurred several afternoon, and were relieved by weeping.
Apprehensive, faint-hearted, and despondent, with nausea; she thought she would die, which disappeared after vomiting, after dinner. Great apprehension with oppression of the chest, and a very despondent, sad mood, as if he apprehended some misfortune, preceded by inclination to vomit; relieved by weeping (first day). Apprehension, anxiety, and despondency, as if she dreaded death, at 4 P.M., two days in succession. Terrible apprehension of immediate death. Despondent, joyless mood. Discouragement.
His manner is nervous, restless, and uneasy; he looks as though he were frightened, and confesses to a feeling of anxiety without any cause for it. From having been one of the most healthy and fearless of men, he had become sick all over, and as timid as a girl; he could not even present a petition in Congress, much less say a work concerning it; though he had long been a practicing lawyer, and had served much in a legislative body. By any ordinary noise, he was startled or thrown into tremulousness, and afraid to be alone at night. During the narrative of his sufferings, his aspect approached the haggard wildness of his temperature. Evenness and mildness of temper, notwithstanding he felt very uneasy about his health. Ill humor. Irritability. He was incapacitated for business of any kind, weak, irresolute, and despondent. Completely indifferent, would not answer, immovable.
Intellectual. Indolent (first day). Disinclined to work (second day). Dread of work, etc. Psychical uneasiness. Exalted action of the brain; copious flow of ideas; during this sort of intellectual paroxysms, which often continues all night long, leaving me in the morning worn-out and sick, I would conceive and elaborate about twenty undertakings, of which probably not one would ever come to light. Mind dull. She feels dull, cannot rightly collect her thoughts (fourth day). Difficulty in concentrating his mind for any length of time on one subject.
Confusion of ideas. Understanding transiently confused. The primary effects of tobacco on my constitution exactly corresponded with the secondary effects of coffee, viz., turpitude of the cerebral functions; confusion of ideas, and lack of words to express them. She is unable to grasp an idea, something else constantly occurs to her and crowds out the former thought, with heaviness and dulness of the head, all of which disappears after vomiting, after dinner. Twenty-three manifested serious derangements of the intellectual faculties. Loss of intellectual power. Memory has failed of late. Stupefaction, etc. Profound stupor. He no longer recognized his surroundings; when spoken to he understood, but the answers he endeavored to make were only unintelligible sounds. Lost consciousness for a moment; he screamed out that smoker must go out of the room, though no one was smoking, that the fumes took away his breath, etc.; immediately afterwards he became quiet, but talked incessantly and irrationally, with open, star-ing eye, spoke of events in his past life, then returned to consciousness.
Completely dumb and insensible. Complete loss of consciousness, etc. Unconscious as if in a faint. Became senseless and unconscious, without apparent respiration. Fell unconscious to the ground. She fell to the ground unconscious, with stoppage of the respiration and scarcely perceptible pulse. Complete insensibility to pinching and sticking. Complete unconsciousness with appearance of quite sleep. The child lay in a soporous condition with the eyes half closed, with a staring look, dilated pupils, with violent trembling of the limbs, rapid respiration, violent beating of the heart and carotids, extreme thirst, profuse, sweat, and cold extremities (after twenty-four hours). Coma. The person seemed in a comatose condition for some moments, then he was roused by the pain, but uttered no complaint, but made violent automatic movements, rose, walked a few steps as if intoxicated, and threw himself upon the bed and tossed about. Profound narcotism, stupor. Fell into a comatose state and died.
Head
Vertigo and Confusion. Head confused. Great confusion of the head. Confusion, long continued. Vertigo, etc. Excessive vertigo (after half an hour, and second and fourth days).
Vertigo and intoxication. Vertigo, with some colic. Frequent paroxysms of vertigo. Vertigo and fullness of the head.
Vertigo, with no steadiness of the body. Vertigo on motion.
Vertigo on every attempt to rise. Vertigo so that she could not rise up. Vertigo, with qualmishness in the stomach (fifth day).
Vertigo, which amounted to loss of consciousness. Vertigo, as from intoxication (first and second day). Vertigo, a turning in a circle with pressive headache in the forehead and temples.
Frequent attacks of vertigo, which caused staggering and falling, while everything seemed to turn round. Vertigo, everything about him seemed to move from right to left, or from above downward, and then the reverse. Vertigo; it seems as if the whole room were turning about in a circle, and she does not dare to rise from her seat for fear of reeling (after a quarter of an hour).
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.