Rapid difficult respiration. Quick breathing (woman).
Respiration spasmodic, deep, 6 per minute. Prolonged respiration (after fifty minutes). Respiration slow. Breathing slow and stertorous. Respiration slow and regular. Slow respiration, sinking to 8 in a minute, interrupted by continual yawning. Respiration slow, the thorax scarcely expanded.
Respiratory movements irregular and sighing. His wind, as he called it, became so short that he was compelled to give up active exercise. (When he bends towards the left side and presses he can breathe more easily). Stertorous respiration.
Breathing stertorous, the cheeks flopping with each expiration.
Respiration anxious, moaning, deep, and difficult. Very feeble respiration. Difficult respiration. Respiration difficult, sighing. Difficult respiration, with a hoarse voice, for a long time after poisoning. Sudden difficulty of breathing. Laborious breathing. Oppression of breathing. Dyspnoea. Dyspnoea, drew long sighs. Moaned frequently (after third day). Feeling as though he would suffocate. Paroxysms of suffocation, from which he frequently awoke with the most frightful anxiety. Attacks of suffocation. Asphyxia and syncope. Dyspnoea to a very great degree (man). Dyspnoea, from almost constant sibilant rales, and which was very troublesome. Great dyspnoea, palpitation, and distress in cardiac region, on going upstairs or ascending any eminence. They almost invariably experienced great dyspnoea on ascending. Average weight of carbonic acid expired, 11616.46 grains (for five days before smoking); 11664.50 grains (for five days while smoking). Average weight of carbonic acid expired, 10456.53 grains (for five days before smoking); 10458.27 grains (for five days while smoking). Average weight of aqueous vapor expired, 4884.66 grains (for five days before smoking); 4585.20 grains (for five days while smoking). Average weight of aqueous vapor expired, 4449.45 grains (for five days before smoking); 4289.51 grains (for five days while smoking).
Chest
Smoking of tobacco tends to render the lungs flaccid, and to bring on a true marasmus. Various diseases of the chest.
Oppression of the chest, relieved by deep breathing. The chest is oppressed, constricted; cannot take a deep breath, associated with a feeling of apprehension and anxiety; she cannot rid herself of the thought that some misfortune would happen to her (third day). Oppression at the chest great. Very violent constriction of the chest (tenth day). Constriction across front of upper chest, dyspnoea and disposition to take a full inspiration, with the darting pain extending from the heart to the vertex. On a Saturday an attack of angina supervenes, of half an hour’s duration; a second fit recurs next day, and he is found dead in his bed on the Monday morning. On taking a deep breath, it seemed as if the chest were too tight (second day).
One evening, while smoking, he was seized suddenly with violent pain in the chest, as if he had been squeezed by a vice; his pulse was insensible. The attack lasted ten minutes. After seven years was suddenly seized with intense pain in the chest, gasping for breath, and a sensation as if a crowbar were pressed tightly from the right breast to the left, till it came and twisted in a knot round the heart, which now stopped deathly still for a minutes, and then leaped like a dozen frogs.
After two hours of deathlike suffering, the attacks ceased, and even after the heart missed every fourth beat. For the next twenty-seven years, continued to suffer milder attacks like the above, lasting from one to several minutes, as often as two or three times a day or night. After the discontinuance of tobacco the attacks ceased. The smoker feels a pain, dull, and although not acute, yet distressing, from the constant sense of oppression which attends it. Its seat is behind the breast-bone, and rather tending to the left side. It is neither aggravated nor diminished by full inspiration, but irrespectively of meals, and sometimes increases in severity during the night, so as to interfere with sleep, yet almost completely vanished before morning, and this without appreciable disturbance of the circulation, respiration, or digestion. Flitting pains in the chest. When taking a deep breath it seems as if the intercostal muscles were being cut to pieces from the front towards the back; worse when touched; the pain brought tears to the eyes (first day). Pain, like a soreness in the chest, during rest (twelfth day). Shocks in the chest and region of the heart; at first always in the night, but after awhile in the daytime, with rushing of blood to the head, which would momentarily deprive him of consciousness. Anxiety, beginning in the chest and precordial region. Pressure in the chest, with anxiety. Pressure and stitches in the chest (second day). Stitches in the chest, on taking a deep breath (fourth and eighth days). Many transient stitches, extending from before backward, through the chest, aggravated by deep breathing. Stitches in the side and chest, on breathing, with great weakness of the head, as if intoxicated, and flickering before the eyes, so that he could not distinguish objects far off (first day). Front and Sides. Pain in the sternum, as if a knife were sticking into it (after five minutes). Pressure beneath the sternum (fifth day). Pressure on the sternum, as if something heavy were lying upon it (third day). Stitches beneath the sternum with impossibility to take a deep breath (first day). Stitches beneath the sternum, on deep breathing (fourth day). Fine stitches in the middle of the chest, extending to the sternum. Dull pains in the sides, which seem to alternate with sore throat. Great pains in the sides, which seem to alternate with sore throat. Great pain and distress in the left side of chest, especially around the precordial region. Stitches in the right side of the chest, on talking (fourth day). Stitches in the right side of the chest (fourth day). Sharp stitches in the right side of the chest, near the axilla, relieved by inspiration (after half an hour).
Sore sticking in the right side of the chest, worse during rest (third day). Some stitches beneath the right short ribs, with tightness of the chest. Some stitches beneath the left short ribs (third day). Mammae. A violent sore pain in the right female Mammae, with a feeling as if the nipple itself were bitten off (twelfth day). Great oppression at breast (woman). A burning stitch beneath the left breast (first day).
Heart and Pulse
Precordia. Three had heart disease. They very generally thought they had idiopathic heart disease; complained of pain and soreness in the region of the heart, and they could not lie very long on the left side, at night. Heart disease is very common among tobacco-provers. Precordia oppression. Suddenly seized in the evening with violent precordial anxiety, followed by complete sleeplessness and springing from bed. Suffered chiefly at night from paroxysms of precordial oppression, with palpitation and pain between the shoulders. One morning was suddenly seized with pain in the region of the heart, with transversal constriction in the upper part of the chest. He could neither walk nor speak; the pulse was insensible; the hands cold; the attack continued half an hour. Darting pain, extending from the heart upwards to the vertex, and sensation of constriction across front of upper chest, with dyspnoea and disposition to take a full inspiration.
(* The cardiac and thoracic pains were probably an aggravation of symptoms caused by partial suppression of a habitually profuse and offensive footsweat. *) Aching pains in cardiac region, generally worse at night, with frequent intermission of the pulse and of the heart’s action. Slight disturbance at the heart.
Heart’s Action. Both sounds of heart clear, but the action was relaxed and occasionally intermittent. The heart-sounds were muffled and seemed to almost run into each other. Systolic murmur in aortic area and in course of large vessels. On applying the hand over the cardiac region, the impulse conveyed to it was of marked peculiarity, much resembling, as was conceived at the time, the purring tremor, or fremissement cataire of French writers, which is likely to accompany aortic regurgitation. Sounds of the heart inaudible, and its movements scarcely felt (after three days). Palpitation, etc.
Palpitation and pain in the cardiac region. Palpitation while lying in bed on the left side, which ceases on turning to the right side (twelfth day). For some time he suffered from palpitation, with pain and constriction of the chest, which came on in the form of an attack either in the evening or night; afterwards a similar attack for inhaling the fumes. Palpitation with tightness of the throat. For about a month, during the night he frequently had attacks of palpitation, with oppression and pains about the shoulders. Strong pulsation of the temporal arteries. Violent palpitation (third and fourth days). Violent palpitation all night. Most distressing palpitation of the heart. Heart beating so violently that he is compelled to give up active exercise. Heart beat somewhat irregularly, with a slight anaemic murmur. The heart beat very irregularly; this was evinced by palpitation and tremulous motion of the organ, especially when lying upon the left side.(930) Beat of the heart weak, slow, intermittent. Beat of the heart weak and intermittent. * Heart’s action very feeble. Heart scarcely beat. Heart perfectly paralyzed. The most powerful influence seemed to be exerted on the heart’s action. Pulse. Pulse rapid.
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.