Generalities
Consumption.(1070) Gout. “The pernicious effects of p73 Tobacco upon children are incontestable. The use of Tobacco causes pallor, chloro-anaemia, palpitation, and troubles of digestion. The anaemia is incurable as long as the habit is continued. Children addicted to Tobacco are of inferior intelligence, and have a taste more or less pronounced for strong drink. Those who drop the habit before the production of any organic lesion recover perfectly.” Twenty-seven presented marked symptoms of nicotine poisoning. The habitual use doubtless causes a physical and mental deterioration of the race. One’s offspring are more liable to possess a delicate constitution, because this abuse produces undue excitement, and hence exhaustion of nervous force in the patient, and statistics conclusively show indulgence predisposes the next generation to various cerebral affections. Feeling of increased vigor in the muscles, with disinclination for the slightest movement (soon).
Entire system flaccid, pallid. Walks literally bent double, pressing both hands over the region of the spleen, and groaning at every step. Blood thin; red corpuscles scattered, non- confluent, and crenated. Eight had decided deterioration of the blood. Emaciation.(1080) An advanced stage of marasmus. Rapid emaciation. Loses flesh, especially on the back; the cheeks also become wasted (after ten days). Began to emaciate and grow pallid. She is emaciated; all her clothes are too loose (twelfth day). Average weight of body 225.79 pounds (for five days before smoking); 225.86 pounds (for five days while smoking). Average weight of body 224.77 pounds (for five days before smoking); 223.62 (for five days while smoking). The hands were doubled into a fist and tightly drawn across the chest; the fingers could not be outstretched not the arm moved; the muscles of the chest and arms felt hard, with vibrating contractions of different fibers. I always had a strong appetite for Tobacco, so that nothing but absolute necessity could ever have induced me to undertake to break up the habit, but for a year I found the symptoms gradually increasing in violence and frequency. I used Gentian as an antidote or substitute; its bitterness temporarily destroyed the everlasting craving for Tobacco. The first night after reforming, I jerked so that I could not sleep, jerked all over, and something seemed to draw my left shoulder down irresistibly. A dose of Ignatia immediately relieved me of these symptoms, and I slept well the remainder of the night; one slight jerking since is all. Now I can lie very well on either side. Can go upstairs or over a bridge quite comfortably.
Better as to pulse and cardiac pain. No more vertigo. Can hardly observe any numbness of orbicularis oris. Sleep well. No bad dreams. Appetite good. Strength improving. Temper better than usual. I was called and saw him in less than ten minutes after he had taken it. Upon entering the room, I noticed two short inspirations, and all was ended. From the statements of the family, he had convulsions immediately after drinking the poison, and sank to the floor. I found him lying upon his left side, mouth and jaws wide open, with tongue protruding; lips, tongue, and inside of mouth of a dark-blue color; eyelids open; pupil of the eye contracted to the size of a pin’s head. General p73 appearance of a man who had been suddenly struck dead.
Petechiae all over the body, with spots of ecchymosis in places.
Rigor mortis very great. (1090) Epilepsy. Muscles rigid.
Paralysis. A fit of hemiplegia eight years ago. Twitching of the muscles. Jerking in the whole body, with pulsation in the head and palpitation (fourth day). Tremblings. Trembling greatly. Trembling of all the muscles. After having lain in bed for three hours, she felt a shudder throughout her whole body, which was followed by nausea and violent vomiting, with convulsions in the arms, lower limbs, and even in the muscles of the back; these convulsions had continued from 1 to 4 A.M.(1100) Trembling of the whole body with the nausea. Trembling of the head and hands, with great excitement, like intoxication, after dinner (first day). Whole frame shoot with strong tremors.
Nervous tremors. Spasmodic contractions of single muscles.
Constant jactitating movements of the muscles. Whole body affected with spasmodic contraction. In a state of continuous muscular tremor, and when he moved across the room to reach his bed, his legs seemed bent or bowed, as if he were permanently deformed, which, however, was not the case. He had evidently lost the full use of the muscles of the lower extremities, and he climbed into bed with considerable difficulty. When he reclined in bed, a continual movement of the muscles of the arms and legs was kept up, and the facial muscles moved occasionally in an involuntary manner. Great nervous excitement, accompanied by irregular action of the muscles, more particularly of the eye- lids, mouth and upper extremities, which lasted for about two hours after each occasion of using this substance. These sensations were succeeded by a pleasant feeling ease and content- ment, which lasted about two hours. Hysteric tremors, with convulsive twitching of the flexor muscles of the whole body, accompanied by an agonized apprehension of some rapidly approach- ing physical catastrophe, the result of which would be death. He would clutch the arm of any bystander and beseech him to save his left, to relieve him from the great precordial distress and threatening suffocation. This fear was, in some subsequent attacks, the cause of prolonged mental and bodily excitement.
Conversation, rapid walking, or any violent motion of the attendants would provoke this spasmodic attack, and produce great nervous irritability. His disposition, from being amiable, became fretful and peevish.(1110) General convulsive trembling.
Convulsions, etc. Convulsions, followed by death. Spasmodic convulsions. Violent spasms, with great rattling (after two minutes). Violent convulsions, followed by death. Convulsions, the head firmly drawn back, with rigidity of the muscles of the posterior part of the neck (third day); there were constantly returning rigid tetanic spasms, the muscles of the back being particularly affected, till death, a week after he chewed the Tobacco. Violent involuntary contraction of all the muscles, with appearance of frightful pain; constantly placed the hand upon the abdomen and tore at the penis forcibly. Convulsive movements of the arms, then of the legs, and after-wards of the whole body, which progressively augmented during six or seven minutes, and were succeeded by p73 extreme prostration.
General convulsions, when bending forward of the body and stretching of the limbs, with subdued cries, on account of the pain in the stomach.(1120) Frightful convulsions, with rigidity of the limbs and violent contractions of the muscles of the abdomen; bending backward of the body; distended blood vessels on the head. In half an hour violently convulsed, the flexor muscles of the upper and lower extremities being rigidly and spasmodically contracted, so as to contract the limbs forcibly against the body. Tetaniform convulsions. Clonic convulsions, which produced great muscular agitation, particularly of the extremities; the teeth were grit together, hands tightly clenches, legs flexed and extended in rapid alter-nation. The next morning he always had a spasmodic attack, was constantly obliged to stretch the limbs and yawn, with a sensation of rolling through the chest, abdomen, and calves, followed by a feeling of leaden heaviness of the feet. The general effects upon the system were almost identical with those previously described as resulting from the former use of Tobacco; there was the same nervous excitement, trembling, wakefulness, but in a somewhat less degree. Slightly convulsed (in one hour).
Disturbance of motility. Complete rigidity of the muscles. He felt decidedly uncomfortable at the end of the eighth, and when he had finished the ninth, he was attacked by giddiness and shiverings; these symptoms became worse after the tenth cigar; he refused to leave off smoking, and was then attacked by severe pain in the bowels and vomiting, and died in the night.(1130) General debility. General sick feeling. Great debility and emaciation. Weakness, etc. Weakness and indolence. Weak, nervous, and timid. Weakness, paleness, dilated pupils (second day). Very weak and languid. General relaxation of the whole body, with rough and warm palms of the hands (soon). Weakness towards evening, and on moving part, immediate shivering and coldness between the shoulders, with dizziness and stitches in the temples, forehead, and vertex (first day).(1140) Muscular weakness so great that any movement was very difficult. Weaker in the forenoon than in the afternoon (first day). General feeling as if he were losing all his strength all over body (after smoking half a cigar indoors). Lost strength very rapidly.
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.