Chest
Lungs engorged. Increased oppression and cough, which is accompanied at first by a pain under the xiphoid cartilage, aggravated by the least pressure on the latter; the symptom was never felt at all during the night, nor when there was any expectoration with the cough; it was more painful both before and after a meal (second day). Chest full and hot. Stitches in the left side.
Heart and Pulse
Irregular action of the heart. Rapid pulse. Pulse at first increased in frequency, afterwards sank below the normal; after three or four hours rose somewhat above the normal. Slow pulse.
Pulse feeble. Pulse small and wiry. Pulse almost imperceptible.
Very marked irregularity and depression of the heart’s action, with a small thready pulse, at times imperceptible, at times frequent, of short duration, small volume, and diminished power; the heart’s action was very feeble and undulating, it sounds indistinct, yet the ventricular systole not interrupted enough to cause a dicrotous pulse (after six hours); pulse regular as to rhythm, though not to frequency, beats varying between 80 and 96 (after fourteen hours and a half). The pulse remained very irregular (accompanied by sensations of “heart-stopping”) for three days, varying between 55 and 92; its rise was quick and volume diminished.
Neck and Back
Drawing in the left cervical muscles. Pain, which is neither continuous nor severe, in the upper part of the back (soon); pain increased (second day). Pain under the left scapula (immediately). The pain under the scapula passes behind the kidneys (after one hour). Cutting pain in the sacral region, which obliged him to support the kidneys, when walking (thirteenth day).
Extremities
Numbness of the limbs and paralysis. A numbness with a kind of immobility, in the extremities, especially after several sweats.
Pretty sharp, transient, wandering pains in the extremities.
Superior Extremities.
Pain during exercise as well as rest, but more severe during exercise, seeming to occupy the olecranon process, and sometimes to leave this part for other portions of the same bone, always in the direction of its humeral extremity; this pain, although not very deep seated, evidently affects the bone, and seems to occupy the periosteum (first day). Pain felt both on movement and during rest, but worse on movement, appearing to occupy the olecranon process, and sometimes to leave this part of the elbow for other portions of the same bone, always tending towards its humeral extremity; this pain, although not very deep seated, evidently affects the bone, and seems to occupy the periosteum.
Unpleasant dryness of the palms, which are also very warm (fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth days). Immediately, or in a few minutes, pain in the joint of the first and second phalanges of the left middle finger (second day). Dull pains in the phalangeal joints of the right hand (second day). Rheumatic pain in the right forefinger, in the phalangeal articulations (third day); this pain lasted until the eighth day, not continuously, but returning often, and especially when the affected part was brought into the slightest contact with even warm liquid.
Inferior Extremities.
Hip. Pain in the left hip, with internal feeling of heat, and, externally, of tearing and great coldness (fourteenth and fifteenth days). Moderate and superficial pain in the right hip and in the knee of the same side, felt more deeply, but not more severely, in the thigh, as a tearing, with coldness; it ceased in the night (after seven hours). Knee. Pain of the same nature as at the base of the kidneys, but more violent, in both knees, especially in the left, ceasing at night, and passing then into the ankle-joint. Pain about the right knee pan (after one hour); pain in the left knee like that in the right, where it had ceased (after two hours and a half); these symptoms reappeared with an intensity which even disabled me from walking; the pains in the knee returning by starts, and impressing on the joint a feeling of extreme weakness, and sometimes of being suddenly bruised, with cutting pain, which rendered locomotion quite impossible (thirteenth day). Crawling sensation in the right leg, extending to the sole of the foot, where it felt as though one were walking on a net. Sharp pinching, with circumscribed itching, in the middle of the left calf (after nine hours). Sudden shooting, almost as quick as lightning, close to and almost upon the phalangeal joint of the first metatarsus of the right side (first day). Crawling sensation in the whole left foot.
Generalities
All the hairy parts became denuded (after a month). Secretions increased. Twice a slight tremor came over her frame (after six hours). Trembling, as at the approach of a fever, with dry mouth, without thirst, and general uneasiness, all of which lasts a quarter of an hour (after twenty-four hours). Convulsions.
Convulsions and death. Great uneasiness. Restless at times, turning from side to side, in bed (after six hours).
Restlessness. Unsteadiness when at rest or sitting, and especially when standing quietly (thirteenth day). General feeling of uneasiness (thirteenth day). Uneasy (after two hours). Extreme exhaustion. Great prostration. Prostration and distension of the abdomen. Sudden prostration of strength.
Prostration, with great oppression, after an embrace, the whole without pain or anxiety; this symptom, the last produced, after having resisted several attempts to remove it, yielded completely to the exhibition of Staphisagria, taken with this object (sixteenth day). Faintness. A kind of faintness, son; a small quantity of brandy and other restoratives seemed to recover her, and she was then put to bed, a dose of castor oil being administered; she, however, relapsed into her former alarming state and death ensued. Fainted, became insensible, and was found on the floor in a state of collapse (after two hours).
Symptoms of syncope (after six hours).
Skin
Two attacks of black jaundice very difficult to remove. The hue of the skin remains of a dirty laden gray. Redness of the skin. Eruption of large and slightly prominent pimples, rather like plates, of a vivid red color, occupying the posterior and upper portions of both arms, with very acute itching (after one hour); eruption increased (second day). Body covered with pustules (after a month). When she awoke, next morning, he body was covered with a copious miliary eruption; on the third day the rash disappeared, and there was an abscess formed at the right knee, which broke on the eleventh day, and was followed by death on the fourteenth. The day following the first dose, and a few hours after the second, uneasiness towards the nose, on whose tip there appeared a large, round, and brownish-red spot, without pain or itching, only sensitive to pressure towards its center, slightly prominent by reason of a small pimple which projected at this point, where, next day, without pain or irritation, desquamation began, which, by slow degrees, extended over all the violet-covered surface, and was completed in five or six days; finally, towards the evening of this same day, that is, about twelve hours after the second dose taken in infusion, a burning itching was felt in the inferior dorsal region of the right forearm, over a surface about an inch in diameter, and corresponding precisely to the outer part of the radio-carpal joint. The surface was rather redder and rougher than in the normal state, and the itching, of which it was the seat, alternated with a similar irritation, but much less severe, in the same portion of the left forearm. The next morning, in the same region, appeared on the right side a crowded mass of hard, round, and red pimples, whose bran like desquamation proceeded during next day and the day after, accompanied by very acute itching, while around this surface, where the skin had resumed its normal appearance and vitality, other similar pimples, but less numerous, arose and disappeared in like manner, with very acute itching, in the morning especially, at not at night, and were succeeded, in their turn, by another circle of similar pimples, reaching thus the dorsal region principally and the upper part of the right forearm. On the left side, three pimples of the same nature as the preceding, but whose desquamation was not followed by the production of other pimples, sufficed to keep up in this part for more than fifteen days, the itching of which it was the seat. To-day, even after lasting a month, the eruption on the right side still remains as troublesome as ever.
A large suggillation in the sole of the left foot, with pain on walking, followed by dark petechiae over nearly the whole body; the face became puffy and pale, the chest full and hot, with great weakness, and after a few days, fever, with great swelling of the face and lips, which became blackish-brown, especially the upper lip, with extreme exhaustion, followed by death.
Sleep
Yawning without sleepiness. Yawned much (after two hours).
Drowsiness for some hours. Seemed as if going to sleep. Deep sleep. Complete insomnia (thirteenth day). Sleep restless.
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.