Mind
Delirium and raving. Delirium with vomiting. Somewhat delirious in the interval of fifty minutes between the bite and death. Appeared wandering, as if drunk, and answered questions in a mumbling incoherent manner (in two hours). During the night sick with delirium and vomiting, followed by profuse perspiration. Extremely melancholy, delirium alternating with sopor (after two hours). Irrational talking, with sleeplessness and pains. Screaming, followed by convulsions, 39 Great agitation and anxiety. Great depression. Very great uneasiness of mind. Premonition of death. Anguish. Anxiety and vomiting. Great anxiety. Indescribable anxiety preceding death. Intellectual torpor. Intellect confused (after two hours). State of great intellectual torpor. Loss of mental functions, with drawn features. Stupor. Stupefaction, with cutting pain in the abdomen, 39 Loss of consciousness and a paralytic condition. Loss of consciousness with swelling. Loss of consciousness and sinking down.
Head
Confusion in the head. Vertigo, 6 38. Frequent vertigo. Vertigo, headache and nausea. Vertigo, headache and vomiting. Vertigo, frequently recurring, with nausea and vomiting, so that he fell into a faint. Staggering with vertigo and falling forward. Giddiness increased to loss of vision. Stupefaction of the head (after half an hour). Dulness of the head. Head felt heavy (after ten hours). Violent headache. Persistent headache for several days. Raging pains in the head, jaws and abdomen, with general spasms. Tearing and sticking pain in the head on every change in the weather, chronic effect of the bite.
Eyes
Eyes glistering with the headache. Eyes pressed out, with swelling of the face. In a short time the eyes became red, inflamed, and very watery. Eyes sunken. The eyes immediately became dark yellow. Lids. Paralysis of the lids (second day). Lid dropped over the eyes. Ball. Eyeballs immovable. Pupil. Pupils dilated (after two hours), 9 12 55. Right pupil contracted, the left dilated (second day). Vision. Vision became indistinct (after two hours), 19 55. Vision of the right eye lost, of the left dim (second day). Obscuration of vision, though he hears everything distinctly. Loss of vision. Loss of vision for several minutes during the excessive violence of the attack, though voices were still recognized.
Nose
Blood from the nose with vertigo, with anxiety.
Face
Staring look, 39 Face expressed terror. Great anxiety expressed in countenance (after six hours). Countenance, naturally pale, has now an appearance of anxiety about it. Countenance pallid, extremely anxious, covered with drops of perspiration (after half an hour). Face pale. Pale face with chilliness. Extreme paleness of the face. Face pale and hippocratic, with cold sweat on the forehead (after two hours). Face pale yellow. The face soon became yellowish, and assumed an expression of anxiety. Face livid, with an subicteric color. Excessive swelling of the face. Swelling, especially of the lips and eyelids. Face swollen and anxious. Enormous tumefaction of the face (after two hours). Face swollen, and nearly double its usual size; the neck also participated in the swelling. Excessive swelling of the face in a few minutes, so that he could not open his eyes, neither like erysipelas nor edematous, not very painful, but very tense and blackish, with closure of the throat for eight days. After ten years there was still edematous puffiness of the face at the place of the bite. Entire face presented a swollen appearance, and the parts immediately adjacent to the bite were discolored, of a livid hue (after two hours); diffuse cellular inflammation extended from the wound to the neck and sternum, and to the opposite side of the face (second day), 31. Features considerably altered; the cheeks puffed; the lips and tongue enormously swollen, but not painful, covered with saliva, and very pale (after one hour and a half). The swelling of the tongue rapidly increased, so that it at last almost filled the cavity of the mouth, and caused great difficulty of breathing. Face convulsed (second day). Lips blue. Lips and tongue livid, swollen and protruding. Acid burning sensation in the lips, mouth, and throat. Raging pains in the jaws. The lower jaw has no longer any power.
Mouth
Gums. The gums often have the scorbutic line. Tongue. Tongue dry, swollen. Tongue swollen, brownish black, protruding from the mouth. Tongue swollen, can be protruded but slowly, and in a small degree, and is evidently directed to the side affected; voice hesitating and thick, and somewhat resembling a man suffering from intoxication (after half an hour). His tongue began to swell, so that he could not articulate. The tongue immediately swelled so much that when he reached the nearest village he was unable to speak; the swelling increased rapidly, so that his tongue dung partly out of his mouth, and two hours afterwards he died. A few minutes after the bite the tongue began to swell, and on the next morning he was found sitting up in bed, anxious, grasping for air, face pale, with an expression of the greatest anxiety, terrible swelling of the submaxillary and parotid glands, the tongue was immovable, blue, enormously swollen, protruding from the teeth, filling the whole cavity of the mouth, constant dribbling of saliva, 28. The tongue at once became enormously swollen, and during the night the man could hardly breathe. The next day the tongue was scarified, but the swelling soon returned again, and he fell to the ground in a state of asphyxia. The respiration and pulse were now completely suspended; the face became purple, and the neck swelled to such a degree, that its circumference exceeded that of the hand. Enormous swelling of the tongue (though bitten in the foot). In fatal cases the tongue became fuliginous, and the breath fetid. Protrusion of the tongue, paleness, 39 Tongue black, dry. Black tongue. Tongue white in the middle, moist on the edges, with thirst. Tongue coated with a white fur (second day). Tongue generally white, slightly tremulous. Tongue yellow, tip red. Thickly-coated tongue, with headache and bad appetite. Tongue discolored. Dry tongue (after two hours), 9 39. General Mouth. Mouth and throat so parched and swollen that to swallow any liquid was impossible. Swelling of the mouth after sucking the wound. Saliva. White saliva flows from the mouth, with deathly faintness. Speech. Speech difficult, with swollen tongue and closed jaws. Replies with difficulty, in a deep voice. Stammering a few unintelligible words, with weakness and sleepiness. Speech thick and inarticulate. Speech inarticulate (third day). Loss of speech on account of weakness.
Throat
Closure of the throat, so that for eight days she could only swallow water and milk; afterwards biting in the fauces, the swelling of which became blackish. Pain in throat, with some difficulty in deglutition, and on examination a copious secretion of viscid mucus was seen to be adherent to the pharynx (after two hours). Violent pain in throat. Deglutition was greatly impeded. Great difficulty in attempting deglutition. Salivary glands tumefied. Swelling like a goitre on the throat, remaining a chronic result.
Stomach
Appetite and Thirst. Complains of hunger and thirst just before death. Complete loss of appetite. Thirst. Great thirst (after ten hours). Thirst with the heat, 39 40. Thirst, with moist tongue. Febrile thirst, with shivering. Desire for water during the coma. Heartburn. Cardialgia. Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea, 3 8, etc. Sickness at stomach and vomiting (within less than half an hour). Nausea and slight attempt to vomit, which appear to aggravate the suffering (after half an hour). Nausea is caused by sucking the yellow poison from the wound, which had a flat taste. Nausea, with shuddering. Violent nausea, with oppressed respiration. Nausea, spasmodic vomiting (after two hours). Violent nausea, with vomiting. Nausea and vomiting, 11 49. Nausea and bilious vomiting. Immediately inclined to vomit, with attacks of faintness. Violent retching. Frequent efforts of vomiting (second day). Spasmodic retching and bilious vomiting affording transient relief. Vomiting, with violent thirst. Vomiting, with colic. Vomiting, with colic and thirst. Vomiting, purging, and urinating. Vomiting, with diarrhoea. Vomiting and diarrhoea, lasting a long time. Vomiting, with distension. Vomiting and faintness. Vomiting, with shivering and violent thirst, 39 Vomiting, with coldness of the body, 39 Vomiting, with erysipelas. Vomiting, with great weakness; somewhat better after repeated vomiting (second day). Violent vomiting and diarrhoea constantly, renewed with great violence. Vomiting after drinking milk. Vomiting affords relief, 39 Drink can be borne by the stomach only after seven days, food only after fourteen days. Bilious vomiting, 39 40. Vomited, first alimentary matter, then bile, the last repeatedly, 24 25. Vomiting of mucous and bilious matter. Vomiting of a bitter yellow fluid (after twenty minutes). Constant vomiting of bilious matter (in two hours). Vomiting a large quantity of bile. Incessant vomiting of a viscid greenish fluid, in color and taste like inspissated bile, followed by severe attack of bilious diarrhoea. After a few minutes she became faint and vomited a large quantity of black blood, followed by bloody stools; these bloody evacuations upward and downward were repeated at short intervals. Vomiting of blood. Vomiting of blood, followed by prostration and death. Vomiting of green liquid. Incessant vomiting of green substances. Stomach. Digestion slow. Pain in epigastrium and stomach (after one hour and a half). A sensation of uneasiness about the epigastrium. Extreme degree of pain at epigastrium, the least pressure causing great suffering (after half an hour). Sudden attack of severe pain at scrobiculus, with considerable thirst. Pain in the epigastrium or umbilical region is almost always present, accompanied by anxiety and vomiting, and, in many cases, excessive thirst, though the patient cannot tolerate much liquid; substances vomited bloody and mucous; stool diarrhoeic and bloody, 54. Terrible pain in the epigastrium.
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.