Lower Limbs
Convulsive movement of the lower extremities. Shuffling gait caused by paralysis, chronic result. Paralysis of the leg and a feeling as if dead. Weakness of the lower extremities. Severe cramps in lower extremities. Great swelling of the leg, as far as the abdomen, which was bluish brown with blackish spots about the bite. The whole leg becomes enormously swollen as far as the abdomen, and of a quite black color. The bitten became excessive swollen as far as the abdomen, blue and yellow. Pain in the bitten leg like the sting of a wasp, or as after a drop of Sulphuric acid on a sore spot. Immediately he felt as if something moved upwards along his thigh. Knee. Knees stiff for a year after. The knee remained stiff for a long time, flexion was difficult and painful, when walking. The boy complained of tension about the knee and ankle-joints (after one week). On every change in the weather, sticking and tearing in the knee and head, after fifty years. Leg. Moderate degree of tumefaction in the leg, from the toes to near the knee, but without pain or discoloration, except a small circle of redness around the wound. The wound was filled with a drop of lymph, which was no sooner wiped off than it was succeeded by another (after four hours). The limb swelled rapidly up to the knee, and soon to the abdomen, became double its normal size, the swelling was pale green, red, and yellow. The bitten spot became dark blue, the limb swollen as far as the knee, immovable insensible to hard pressure or cutting. The bitten leg swollen and yellow. Leg swollen, as cold as ice, and as insensible as a piece of wood. Leg swollen, as if puffed up by air, with great pain. After two or three hours, pain in the wound, and towards morning the foot was inflamed and swollen as far as the knee; there was some swelling even after three months, followed for several years by paralysis of the foot, so that he was unable to ride horseback, 39. Foot. The bitten foot was swollen up as far as knee, hard and bluish red, and remained swollen for several years. Paralysis of the foot which had been bitten several years before, preventing riding horseback. The foot seemed shortened, so that he limped when walking, chronic result of the bite. Paralysis of the foot, afterwards, ulcers, chronic results. Paralysis of the foot, with shuffling gait. Paralysis of the whole bitten foot, after several years. Swelling of the batten foot and chronic suppuration, after forty years. The swollen foot became indurated, bluish red, and remained so for several years. On the fifth day, the foot became gangrenous, and the swelling extended to the knee. Foot swollen within half an hour, with much pain, as if it had been blown up with air, and two bluish-yellow stripes, as broad and as large as the thumb, gradually extended along the leg to the thigh and to the abdomen. The bitten foot and leg swollen, almost black, together with the whole abdomen. The foot becomes blue and swollen. Aching in the bitten foot returned yearly. Sticking and tearing in the bitten foot on every change of weather for years. Dragging of the foot, chronic result. Burning in the whole of the bitten foot. The whole toe became blue and swollen, also the back of the foot after a short time.
Sleep
Disposed to yawn. Heavy and drowsy. Drowsiness. Sleepy without being able to sleep. Great inclination to sleep, but the patient was unable to sleep, and was constantly obliged to change the position. Tendency to somnolence. Slept for several hours after the vomiting, felt well on waking. Sleep prevented by pains. Very restless during the night (first night). Sleeplessness for three or four nights. No inclination to sleep till noon of the second day. Loss of sleep.
Fever
Chilliness. Great chilliness. Constant chilliness, with cold sweat. Chilliness, with pale face and thirst. Chilliness, with pain in the chest. Chilliness, followed by fever (second day). Shivering (after two hours). Shivering, with flushes of heat. Cold shivering, with nausea, vomiting, and great thirst. Shivering, with febrile symptoms; small, rapid, contracted, at times irregular, intermittent pulse. Coldness of the rigidity, with clammy sweat. Temperature diminished; resists cold badly. Diminished warmth of the body, immediately. Rather cold than warm to touch, with desire for stool. Head and upper extremities ice cold. Finger cold (after ten hours). Heat. Violent fever, 16; towards evening (first day). Violent fever, with delirium (second night). The fever persisted for several days, with an irregular type, and necessitated the employment of antiperiodics. The reactionary fever after the poisoning assumed the type of an intermittent. Heat of the whole body. Violent heat, followed by shivering. Burning heat rising from the heel to the tongue. Sensation of burning heat through the whole body, with swelling of the hand that was not bitten, so that he could not close it. Burning heat running up the arm. Heat, thirst, and restlessness, on the next morning with moderate pains. Skin warm and dry, with brain symptoms. Heat rises from the bitten foot into the tongue. Burning heat, extending from the bitten spot on the arm up to the chest. When bitten, heat shoots through the whole body like lightning. For some minutes after a bite in the heel, a kind of numbness in the foot, followed by a sensation of heat, extending from the point on the foot up through the leg to the abdomen, chest, and at last to the throat and tongue; this violent heat affected him severely, and caused burning thirst; soon followed by restlessness, febrile shivering, trembling of the whole body, and complete loss of strength. Skin hot (second day). Sweat. Profuse perspiration. Perspiration after vomiting. After chamomile tea copious perspiration, except over the bitten limb from the abdomen to the toes. Sweat with the coldness. Profuse cold perspiration with difficult respiration. Cold sweat, with the most violent attacks. Cold perspiration, with sticking at the heart, and faintness. Cold sweat. Whole body covered with clammy sweat. Profuse cold clammy perspiration. Body bedewed with a cold clammy sweat (second day). Perspiration relieves. No perspiration with the febrile warmth.
Skin
The skin of the hand is dead and comes off like a glove, detached in large plates, the subjacent tissues livid (third day). The skin is of a yellowish color. The face and trunk had a jaundiced hue, and the extremities exhibited diffused patches of redness (second day). The skin of the affected limb was of a yellowish livid hue, mottled. Livid color of the skin. Livid spots on the skin. The bitten limb became covered with livid violent spots like ecchymoses. Livid spots appear later than the swelling, and very characteristic, red, bluish, or blackish, varying in tint and intensity, in different individuals and in different limbs; they usually begin within six to twelve hours after the bite, and on disappearing leave a greenish or yellowish spot, which persists for several days; they consist of true ecchymoses of blood, sometimes followed by gangrenous sloughs. Black petechial spots, extending over the whole body, which was cold to touch. Ecchymosed spots in the skin, which, after death, were also found in the membrane of the brain. Ecchymosed spots in various parts of the body, just before death. Swelling covered with black and yellow spots. Very bright blue or almost black spots about the wound. Reddish black spots all over, as large as peas, over the whole abdomen, and even on the face. The parts about the wound became very much swollen and very much swollen and very red, and blackish-blue spots appeared on both sides of the thigh and leg, which after twenty-four turned yellow, and disappeared after a few days. The skin of the arm was of a deep-red color (after ten hours). Hands violet-colored, covered with phlyctenules (second day). A disagreeable herpetic eruption, with extremely distressing itching about the wound, persisted for a long time. Roseola-like eruption on the inner side of the arm and down the side of the body. About the bite, bluish-black spots developed and discharged disorganized blood. Large blisters developed about the bite, which, after an hour, burst and left an ulceration; on the sixth day there was such great destruction of flesh that the muscles were laid bare; the wound was a line and a half in depth, and apparently was not inflamed; the muscles had a dark-red color, were quite dry, and looked like smoked meat, insensible to touch; the sore was offensive. Collections of pus sometimes but rarely appear at the point of the bite. Immediately afterwards the arm became swollen, red, livid, almost purple; and with these local symptoms were extreme anxiety, headache, vomiting, and shivering. In the course of a few hours a large bulla, with a dull red base, had developed itself over the wound. Afterwards, bullae of the same description made their appearance all over the body, even on the face, the intermediate space being red and swollen. When ruptured, a very large quantity of turbid serum escaped. This eruption continued from 28th May, 1824, to November. On the 28th May, 1826, the same phenomena reappeared; the eruption beginning at the seat of the bite, and continuing until November of the same year. And every year, from 1826 to 1863, the history of the patient has been the same, the symptoms beginning in the month of May, with lassitude, anxiety, nausea, headache, etc.; then, after six or eight days of these introductory troubles, the cicatrix becoming red and painful; then tingling and swelling of the arm; then the development of the bullae exactly as in 1824; the only difference being that the eruption disappears in five or six weeks instead of continuing for five or six months as at first. In the interval the patient is apparently quite well, and a white faint cicatrix is the only visible remains of her troubles. Skin generally dry. Skin dry and burning.
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.