Delusion at night. Hallucination, saw her dead husband and child in a tree out of the window; erroneous ideas as to the identity of herself and those around her and her situation, a mild delirium arose and alternated with a different state, difficulty in finding language and before she could convey the meaning the idea fled, then a jumble of disconnected words, later apathy, with occasionally symptoms approaching, catalepsy and ecstasy, on placing arms, for example, in any position they were fixed for some minutes then slowly relaxed and sank down, at other times unconsciousness with fixed eyes; saw many colored figures in constant motion as soon as he closed his eyes.
Mind affected between the paroxysms, would leave home without knowing where he was going, became enraged with persons he met, generally remembered nothing, when brought home he would shut himself up till he got right again. On recovering consciousness the people in the ward seemed as small as dolls and the opposite side of the room seemed forty feet below his own level.
Wandering in speech now and the; and when he began to rave the facial muscles twitches, giving him a hideous appearance. Speech wandering, lay quiet with closed eyes, insensible to pinching, when limbs were placed in any position and left unsupported they remained there a few seconds, then oscillated and fell back on the bed, body rigid, so that he could not be made to sit upright, and his attention could not be aroused, suddenly a great variety of expressive gestures, tried to speak but was prevented by the liquid in his mouth to speak but was prevented by the liquid in his mouth, very sensitive to pinching, upper limbs too stiff to be moved, then quietude, thus alternations of repose and movement, then he indicated by a gesture that he wished to eat and drink, then he suddenly spouted the ptisan which he held in his mouth over the surgeon, then quietness and unconsciousness, during which the limbs remained and unconsciousness, during which the limbs remained in any position they were made to assume, then gestures of varying significance, with his eyes shut and without speaking, at last he suddenly opened his eyes and called for drink, seemed to fall asleep while swallowing his ptisan, but was easily aroused by being spoken to, rambled volubly from one incoherent idea to another, but answered questions rationally, at one times tried to get up, tried to strike and bite the nurses, remembered well what happened a month ago, but could not recollect what occurred a few days ago.
Talked all day, attempted to get out of his strait-waistcoat; T. all night, mostly about how he should destroy his fastening; babbled all night, now and then jumped out of bed, swore and blistered; T. to himself when alone, but was generally silent and quiet; T. at random all night. Answers at random; and in monosyllables. Language extravagant. Utters a few broken, disconnected words. When spoken to he looks everywhere but at the questioner. Quiet in bed, with constant, unintelligible words; Q. when left to himself, and silent. Silent generally, when he speaks his words are disconnected and voice broken, when interested he answers rationally, sometimes sits facing his questioner in silence without looking at him, at times he answers a simple question wide of the mark. Self-absorbed, answers rationally but briefly, pays no attention to his wife and children when they come to see him, when in bed keeps moving his hands, folds and unfolds the covering, sometimes wanders about the room, now singing, now gradually quickening his steps, now stopping and turning about abruptly, gait uncertain. Searching about on the floor. Screams; frightful, with general conclusions; during the aggravations draws himself together under the bed- clothes, suddenly gets out of bed and gets in again and doubles himself up, etc.
Liveliness; in afternoon; and hallucination alternating with morose mood, disinclination to talk and attempts to escape. Active in afternoon, absorbed in knitting and thoughtful. Disinclination to work; and inability; D. to talk after dinner. Anguish. Grumbling during the intervals of quietude, closed his eyes and shrank under the bed-clothes. Weeping from slight causes. Manner frightened and nervous. Fear; of death if left alone; easily frightened. Avoids society. Melancholy; at the fear of death; and silent; and if a neighbor called to see him he burst into tears and was unable to speak for some time; has no desire to live. threatens to destroy himself, fault finding with friends; and stupefaction, Dullness of senses, drowsiness; religious. Despondency. Ennui; in afternoon, with quiet reserve. Discouragement. Discontented in morning on waking.
Anxiety; and sighing; with inability to breathe deep enough and increased palpitation; with difficult respiration so that he seemed almost suffocated from fright, could get is breath only when sitting. Apprehension, Distrust. Longing for a distant fried in evening before sleep. Irritable; in afternoon, all work frets her; whenever approached it cried, whined and would not play. Hasty temper. Apathy; and sopor alternating with difficulty of breathing and headache. Indecision. Nervous; and unwilling to be touched or have anything done for her.
Slow of perception, memory lost (Lycopodium, Phos-ac.); so that when talking he was often unable to find the proper word. Scarcely knew old acquaintances. Imbecility. Stupidity. Answers slow and stammering; slow and short; vague; says and does everything very slowly. Inability to fix thoughts. Reading is tiresome, he mistakes one word for another and skips lines. Intelligence and power of utterance vary curiously at different times.
Coma; with at times automatic movements of hands to occiput; alternating with loquacity; alternating with delirium. Lethargy. Unconsciousness; with falling on attempting to walk; with sudden falling backward; with falling twice, then coma alternating with loquacity, next morning he roused up suddenly, half opened his eyes, uttered many disconnected words, tossed about in bed, urinated on his pillows, put his head down, lifted his buttocks in the air, then relapsed into coma; occasionally, then epileptiform spasms, with bloody forth from mouth, then left- sided paralysis of motion and sensation.
Head
Trembling, Turned to right, its rotation to 1. being prevented by paralysis of sterno-cleido-mastoid. Shooting; here and there, (<) r. ear, (<) afternoon and evening. Aching; always immediately after colic, (<) frontal and parietal; regions; (<) morning on waking; with vomiting; with heaviness of it and confusion of mind; with anxiety extending to forehead, dim vision and contracted pupil; with obscuration of vision and sleepiness; so that head could not be held up; counteractive, and in cheek. Pressure beneath skull as from rush of blood. Dullness; with dimness of mind, so that he rubbed his forehead. Heaviness; when standing, with Dullness; (<) occiput, with sticking in sinciput; it falls forward. Apoplexy; with paralysis of l. arm. Vertigo; on stooping or on looking up; (>) open air. Symptoms (>) hot-air baths.
Forehead. Sticking in brain; in eminence; in sinciput at 9 P.M.; across. Tearing in afternoon, with internal heat in head and redness; T. and sensation of contraction; intermittent, in middle; back and forth. Pain; supraorbital; rather externally in evening; above eyes n moving them; and in temples; and in temples, (<) l. side; worse by paroxysms, with feeling of dislocation; with tearing in nape; heavy in forepart of head. Heaviness after morning soup; H. above orbits.
Temples. Twitching in r,; T. and constriction. Sticking in r., with external soreness; s., with compression as if in a vise; tearing, in l. Tearing in r.; and then in r. ear. Clucking in l. extending to ear. Throbbing.
Vertex. Intermittent, lacerating pain worse by paroxysms, (>) pressure, and in face.
Sides. cracking in r, when sneezing, then formication and numbness in whole r. side of body, with weakness of these parts. Sticking in r. in forenoon when walking and standing, with beating; S. in upper part of r. parietal bone, with tearing; inward in upper part of r. parietal bone. Pain in l.; anteriorly in l. parietal bone; in l. extending to l. side of face, (<) night.
Occiput. Pain; at times extending to forehead; extending to ears and temples, beginning when asleep, so that he often rose, walked about the room holding his head with both hands, then somewhat relieved he lay down again for a short nap. Pressure towards forehead, (>) standing, with feeling as if eyes would close from heaviness. Heaviness as if its weight were increased.
Clinical Has been used for a form of headache with sensation of a ball rising form the throat into the head. This drug has occasionally been found useful in the form of cerebral paralysis, with blunted consciousness, deficient memory, impaired speech, more or less paralysis of the muscles of the face, throat, eyes and extremities; the patient is either unable to remember words simply omits syllables and words.
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.