Pulse: steady, but rather full and hard, about ten beats above normal standard (80); slightly accelerated and hard, being more frequently small than full; quick and irritable; 160; becomes gradually weaker and quicker, especially after paroxysm, 120 to 180; frequently irregular, becoming variable in its rate, and this variation takes place with great rapidity, unequal, some beats stronger, some quickened; weak, quick, intermitting, very small, irregular and very rapid (last stage); weak, quick and intermittent (latter period); becomes constantly more rapid and smaller, until at length it is threadlike, and finally no longer can be felt.
Dr. Henry C. Allen, M. D. - Born in Middlesex county, Ont., Oct. 2, 1836. He was Professor of Materia Medica and the Institutes of Medicine and Dean of the faculty of Hahnemann Medical College. He served as editor and publisher of the Medical Advance. He also authored Keynotes of Leading Remedies, Materia Medica of the Nosodes, Therapeutics of Fevers and Therapeutics of Intermittent Fever.