Abdomen
Severe pain in the left hypochondrium (fourth day); pain constantly felt in the left hypochondrium, and increased by food (eighth day). Pain in left hypochondriac region. Abdomen painful, distended. Abdomen shrunken, and the edge of the liver sharply traceable (after twenty one days). Abdominal tenderness (after a few hours). Abdomen tender on pressure. Intense abdominal pain.
Stool
Diarrhoea, 39 11. Violent Diarrhoea. Several loose watery evacuations of the bowels. Sudden diarrhoea, with vomiting; she is found in a state of collapse. Frightfully purged and vomited (in fifteen minutes). Purging; the motions thin and of a dark-brown color. Large loose and watery motion (after half an hour); a desire to go to stool was accompanied for two hours by the discharge of nearly three pints of mucus, mixed apparently with shreds of the intestinal mucous membrane (after a few hours). Stools fetid. There was no action of the bowels until the third day, when they acted spontaneously; the stool was of a black coffee grounds appearance, and entirely wanting the odor of faces. It was quite a fortnight before anything but black stools appeared; then they were pale, clayey, dry, and crumbling, showing no evidence of bile. Bowels moved only three times in one hundred and sixteen days; a copious, black, pitchy stool followed the enema (twentieth day); after an injection another copious dark pitchy stool (fifty-first day); after an injection of warm olive oil, passed a copious motion, pultaceous in consistence, and of a greenish color; the first action of the bowels for eight weeks (one hundred and eighth day ), 24. Constipation.
Urinary organs
Had passed daily on an average one pint of urine, of specific gravity 1025-1030, turbid with lithates, but containing no albumen (ninety-eighth day).
Respiratory organs
Voice. Spoke in a whisper from excessive debility. Voice feeble, almost whispering (second day). Voice reduced to the faintest whisper (one hundred and sixteenth day). Voice gone, and could express herself only by whispers (in one hour and a half). Lost her voice, but gradually recovered after five weeks. Respiration. Breathing thoracic and rapid. Short breath. Great difficulty in breathing.
Extremities
Tremor of the limbs.
Upper Limbs
Pains at the shoulder and back of spasmodic character (second day). Occasional attacks of tetanic spasms in the right forearm and hand, which lasted for a few minutes and then passed off.
Lower Limbs
Legs drawn up on belly (in twenty minutes). Severe cramp in the lower extremities (after two hours and a half).
Sleep
Utter inability to sleep. Slept restlessly, lying always on right side, with her legs drawn up, and ground her teeth during sleep (after ten days).
Fever
Chilliness. Coldness, 5 10. General surface of body cold and bedewed with perspiration. Surface cold and wet, with clammy perspiration. Very cold and pale (in fifteen minutes). Cold clammy skin. Chill and heat. Alternations of cold and heat. Extremities cold (after five hours), 15 21 22. Skin moderately warm to the touch, though she constantly complained of cold, notwithstanding the heat of the weather was intense (after twenty-one days). Heat. Sensation of warmth in the parts to which it is applied, quickly followed by violent burning pain for seven or eight hours, till the parts are dead, when a white eschar forms. Her temperature rose for the few days after the poison was taken till it reached 100.6 0; it then fell slowly, and reached its lowest point 96.4 0, the ninety-seventh day; from which time till death, it ranged from 96 0 to 98 0, but it never fell below 96 0, 24. Sweat. Forehead bathed in sweat, the general surface warm (after one hour). Clammy sweats (in one hour and a half). Cold sweat, 15 10. Surface bedewed with a cold clammy perspiration.
Skin
From the third day the skin assumed a ghastly bluish-green tint, this lasted for a long time. Skin dusky. Arms livid and cold. Skin dry and harsh as the child wasted after ten days); harsh and dingy in hue, exhaling that peculiar odor which is almost distinctive of starvation (after twenty-one days). Skin drawn tightly across the nose, and thinning off towards the mouth, in place of filling out to form the lips (after twenty-one days). Trunk and extremities had a strange bluish mottled appearance, from innumerable petechiae (one hundred and sixteenth day). Skin dry and hot. Skin of legs covered with thick scales (one hundred and sixteenth day).
Heart and Pulse
Pain in the precordial region. Pulse rapid. Pulse quick and fluttering. Pulse small, rapid, and contracted. Pulse very feeble and rapid. Small, rapid pulse, 12, etc. Pulse 144, very feeble (second day). Pulse 90. Pulse soft, about 80 (after one hour); sinking rapidly, becoming more weak and frequent (after five hours). Pulse small and weak, 45. Pulse 45, small, weak (in twenty minutes). Pulse quick and fluttering. Hard jerking pulse (after a few hours). Thready pulse (twenty-first day), 19; (second day). Pulse feeble. Nearly pulseless (in fifteen minutes), 12 18.
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.