The crystallizable alkaloid contained in Hyoscyamus, isomeric with Atropine, C17H22NO3. Solutions in alcohol may be used.
Generalities
Tetanic attacks. Muscular system flaccid, unable to sit erect in a chair, hand suddenly pronated and supinated with a jerk. Arrest of various secretions and excretions. Restlessness and tossing about bed; R. and reeling, then falling together like a drunken man. Heavy feeling. Inability to stand when she got out of bed. General numbness, with loss of power in producing ordinary movements of coordination.
Mind
Delirium; violent, failed to recognize his family, saw animals about him, next day remembered nothing that had passed except the dreams of animals; wakeful, quiet and usually pleasing D., with illusions of sight or great sleepiness, and when aroused dreamy sleep, broken by occasional mutterings and jerkings of limbs. Clear when engaged in conversation, but dreamy when undisturbed, eyes wide open, he reached to an object on the table and looked about on the floor, when questioned said that he thought something had dropped from the table, and that the walls appeared to move, afterwards quiet, but meddlesome when not engaged in conversation, grasping at objects, attempting to remove them before the hand reached them, when left alone he lapsed into forgetfulness and dreamy, meddlesome delirium, picking at objects, having reached them after unsuccessful efforts he fumbled with them till he dropped them, then on attempting to pick them up lost his balance, when aroused he rubbed his hand, gaped, answered readily, a remark excited a risibility which he could not restrain, and occasionally the suppressed chuckle burst into a hearty laugh.
Dullness, heaviness. Difficulty in concentrating thoughts. Coma, with relaxation of voluntary muscles, except occasional spasmodic movements of arms and legs.
Head
Aching. Congestion, and of face, violent throbbing of carotids with every impulse of heart. Drunkenness, nausea and vomiting. Giddiness; with staggering on rising from a seat; with staggering on walking; across forehead. Weight across forehead.
Eyes
Suffused; sclerotic and conjunctiva. Balls restless. Pupils dilated; and insensible. Vision misty; and letters run together, can read fine print only at distance of a yard; double V.; yellow V.; V. perverted as to color and size, she thought some pills in a box were larger than the others; inability to read unless the print was within two or three inches of the nose.
Face
Flushed; and hot; cheeks, occasionally; especially cheeks flushed and hot. Heavy look.
Mouth
Tongue dry; and brown; at centre, and brown, also with clamminess of rest of mouth; and hard; and rough, except margins; and rough and brown, hard and soft palates dry and glazed, afterwards tongue and palates covered with a sticky, acid, offensive secretion; as after Belladonna; tongue and throat so dry that articulation was indistinct. Forepart and margins of tongue wet with acid secretion. Dryness of mouth; except gums. Clammy; and moist exhaling an offensive odor. Suddenly moist. Sensation of mastic in it.
Throat
Dryness; with moisture of mouth; of pharynx; with difficult swallowing.
Stomach
Vomiting during the coma.
Urinary Organs
Urging, dysuria and discharge in a feeble, dribbling stream, partial retention (urine contained Hyoscyamus). Urine changed from high colored to glaucous green. Urine changed from acid to alkaline and opalescent on boiling; and on standing a deposit of triple phosphates, the specific gravity increased. Urine pale, specific gravity decreased. Specific gravity decreased, uric acid decreased, changed from acid to neutral; sp. gr. and uric acid decreased, changed from acid to alkaline; sp. gr., chlorine, urea, sulphates, phosphates and uric acid decreased.
Respiratory Organs
Dry, tracheal cough. Rapid respiration.
Heart and Pulse
Heart’s action excited and rapid. Pulse increased in rapidity, force and volume; then slow; then decreased in rapidity, force and volume. Pulse rapid; then slow and soft. Pulse slow; and at first increased in force and volume.
Extremities
Jerking; occasionally, and fidgety. Inability to walk. Inability to rise from his chair or walk without assistance, and as he sat twitching now and then of the extensors of the legs, so as to advance the foot with a little jerk. Weakness of legs; of feet, so that I could only walk by fixing eyes on the ground.
Sleep
Yawning; and sighing; and tired feeling. Sleepiness. Sleep.
Fever
Heat; of skin, with dryness.
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.