Violent pulse. Pulse more rapid by 10 beats, and fuller (soon).
Pulse small and very frequent. Pulse small, rapid, irregular.
Pulse averaged 85 (before experiment); 92 (during experiment).
Full, hard, rapid pulse. Pulse quick and feeble. Small, hard, rapid pulse. Pulse full, slow. Pulse slightly compressible and perfectly regular, at barely 60. Man’s pulse hard and quick. * Pulse soft, full, and feeble. While he sits, the pulse beats but 48 in a minute. It is large and full to the finger, under which it passes slowly, and readily compresses; any movement at once increases the beats, and more than occurs in the healthy state.(950) Woman’s pulse rather soft but frequent. Pulse slow, 45; 50 to 60. Very slow pulse. * Pulse small, 82.
Pulse 60, regular, small, and weak. Pulse 48, and small. Pulse very slow and weak. Extremely weak, small pulse. Pulse small, slow 34. Pulse remarkably slow, scarcely perceptible, intermittent for fifteen seconds.(960) Pulse small and intermittent, 78. Slow and intermittent pulse. *Pulse small and weak, 70. The pulse becomes small and weak, the skin cold, and covered with clammy sweat. Frequent intermission of the pulse and of the heart’s action, with the pains in the entire cardiac region. Among eighty-eight inveterate smokers, there was twenty-one instances of marked intermittence of the pulse, occurring in men from 27 to 42 years of age. Pulse irregular, variable, and intermittent; at one time 136 per minute, and in a short time thereafter down to 38 per minute. Basis, 74 1/2 pulsations: Six minutes, 81, 81, 81, 83, 82, 82; average 81.6.
Seventeen minutes, 85, 89, 89, 93, 96, 90, 94, 93, 92, 93, 95, 95, 96, 94, 97, 93; average 93. Basis 74 1/2 pulsations: Six minutes, 79, 77, 80, 78, 78, 77; average 78.1. Seven minutes, 83, 87, 88, 94, 102, 102; average 93.4. Eight minutes, 105, 105, 104, 105, 105, 107, 107, 110; average 106. After smoking eleven minutes, 112, 108, 107, 101, 101, 100, 100, 100, 100, 98, 91.
Smoking seven minutes, 76, 75, 79, 79, 76, 78, 82. Smoking ceased ten minutes, 81, 88, 81, 83, 82, 84, 83, 83, 80, 82.(970.) Basis, 70 1/2 pulsation: Six minutes, 68, 70, 71, 70, 72, 74; average 70.8. Six minutes, 76, 77, 86, 89, 91, 94; average 85.5.
Four minutes, 98, 95, 96, 95. Smoked fast three minutes, 94, 94, 96. Pipe recharged, 87, 93, 96, 96, 96. Basis, 8 pulsations: 85, 85, 84, 80, 94, 94 (one missed), 84, 84, 88, 98, 86. Basis, 65 pulsations: Seven minutes, 64, 64, 64, 65, 67, 64, 65; average 63.7. Seven minutes, 70, 70, 70, 71, 74, 68, 71; average 70.5.
Five minutes, 76, 77, 77, 81, 81; average 78.4. Basis, 84 pulsations: 84, 84, 85, 84, 86, 84, 83, 85, 86, 84, 87, 86.
Basis, 73 pulsations: Ten minutes, 76, 75, 73, 74, 71, 74, 71, 74, 73, 73; average 73.4. Six minutes, 77, 79, 81, 87 (missed one), 74, 75; average 77.1. Pulse not perceptible at wrist, and action of heart scarcely so in precordial region. Pulse almost perceptible, very small, intermittent, extremely slow, 45. Pulse scarcely perceptible, 83. No pulse at the wrist (third day).(980.) Pulse (after fifty minutes).
Neck and Back
Neck. Stiff neck, so that he could not turn the head to the right side (eighth day). Neuralgic pains in the neck, with the rightness of the throat. Burning and tension in the skin of the right side of the neck (second day). Great heaviness and pain in the nape of the neck, so that he was obliged to remove the neckerchief (first day). Back. Tenderness of the spine along its whole length, the more especially in the cervical and lumbar regions. Pain between the shoulders, with the precordial oppression. Burning beneath the scapula (second day). Stitches in the right scapula (fourth day). Dull pain in the middle of the spine, with bruised feeling over the body, especially in the upper extremities, in the morning.(990) Pain in the small of the back and loins, especially after sitting. Intolerable pain in the small of the back, greatly aggravated while sitting and lying. Pain in the small of the back, constrictive, especially violent after a stool (fourth day). Pressive pain in the lumbar region on rising from a seat and on beginning to walk, disappearing on walking. Beating pain in the region of the sacrum, in the evening (first day).
Extremities
Extremities outstretched, relaxed, powerless, with almost incessant trembling and frequent convulsive twitchings.
Trembling of the limbs. Trembling of arms and hands. Rigidity of the limbs. Limbs began to be very stiff (second day).(1000) Paralysis and relaxation of the limbs. Cataleptic condition of the arms and legs, if a leg or arm were extended or flexed or uplifted, it would retain that position for at least five minutes, or until it was reduced to a more comfortable posture.
Great weakness and trembling of the hands and feet (first day).
Weariness and prostration of the limbs. Complete loss of power of the upper and lower extremities. Limbs relaxed. A feeling as if the fingers were longer when smoking, he feels as if he had lost the use of his legs from knees downwards; can smoke a cigar in open air, but if he smokes half of one indoors, his calves feel as if they did not belong to him, and as if they were dropping away. Pain in all the limbs.
Superior Extremities
The arms bound over the chest. Constant inclination to stretch the arm (second day).(1010) The right arm seems paralyzed, as with cramp (twelfth day). The left arm is completely powerless and painful (third day). Severe spasmodic contractions in his arms and hands. Tension in the left arm, especially in the elbow (first day). Pain in the arm on raising it (first day). Drawing pain in a spot as large as a half dollar on the left arm, as if an ulcer would form (fourth day). Shoulder. Pulsation beneath the right shoulder (first day). Stitches and drawing in the left shoulder (second day). Elbow. A drawing pain in the elbow on turning the forearm (first day). Sticking pains in the elbows, on account of which he could not quickly stretch out the right arm (second day). Forearm.(1020) Pain, as from a sprain, in the right forearm, especially in the elbow, with painful stitches immediately on every exertion (third day). Tearing in the tendons of the left forearm towards the hands, and then in the elbow (second day). Hands. Hands joined, and in a state of rigid contraction. Trembling of the hands (first day).
Trembling of the hands and tongue. His hands trembles much when he holds it out. Weakness of the hands (first day). The hands seem paralyzed and cold, p73 followed by burning and fuzziness of the tips of the fingers and difficult mobility, with coldness and chilliness of the body (eighth day). Drawing, paralytic, spasmodic pain in the right hand, extending to the elbow (fifth day). Sticking and tearing in the right hand (after ten minutes). Fingers.(1030) Fingers somewhat swollen (sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth days). Twitching of one finger.
Cramp, and a feeling of formication, in the three first fingers of the left hand (third day). Cramp in various fingers (after two hours, and on washing in the morning), (second, third, and fourth days). Frequent painful tearing in the whole little finger (second day). Gait shuffling. Had the gait of an old man. Tottering in his gait (after half an hour). Stiffness of the lower extremities and of the spine. Uneasiness in the lower extremities.(1040) A kind of paralysis or excessive weakness of the lower extremities, so that at last the patient is obliged to sit or lie down, with loss of sensation and more or less weakness of all the special senses. Complete loss of power over lower extremities. Hip and Thigh. Dull pressive pain in the hips and knee-joints. Stitches in the right hip, towards evening (third day). Pain on pressing upon the right gluteal muscles (second day). Sticking in and above the gluteal muscles (first day).
Pain and tension in the gluteal and femoral muscles, as after a long walk (third day). Drawing in the thighs (ninth day).
Stitches in the left thigh, between the shoulders and beneath the sternum (eighth day). Knee. Knees tottered, and he appeared scarcely able to support his emaciated body.(1050) Stitches on bending the knees, pressure in them during rest (first day).
Cracking in the knees when walking (first day). Cramp in the knee (eighth day). Stitches in the hollows of the knees (fourth day). Frightful burning in the knee, and when touched, a feeling as if pins were in it (eleventh day). Leg. Paralyzed feeling, as if asleep below the knee (fifth day). Tension from the knees to the feet when walking (third day). Weakness of the legs and feet (third and fourth days). Tearing externally on the left tibia. Tearing down the left calf (first day).(1060) Pressive pain in the left ankle. Jerking of tendo Achillis, and of other muscles, mostly at night, with restlessness and sleeplessness.
Foot. Trembling, or rather shaking of the feet for a long time (first day). Great weakness, as if the feet were paralyzed; could scarcely go upstairs (first day). Paralyzed feeling in the right foot (first day). Burning on the side of the sole of the foot, as from a glowing hot iron, most violent towards evening (second day). Jerking tearing on the back of the left foot (first day). Toes. Cramp from the toes into the knee (first day). Acute pain in the balls of the toes of the left foot, so that he could not step upon it as usual (sixth day).
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.