Introduction
Ethyl-alcohol, C2H6O.
(Spirits of Wine).
Preparation: Form commercial spirits of wine, by redistillation.
Mind.
He weeps and sobs with distorted face, or he froths with rage, and fills the house with curses.
Frenzy, accompanied by the most violent convulsions (convulsive intoxication).
Drunkenness, with various manias.
Mania, with excessive irritability, excited by slightest causes.
Mania, with disposition to commit murder or incendiarism.
Mania for alcoholic drinks, pepper, and other heating things.
Mania.
Various hallucinations of sight, hearing, smell, and sensation.
Delirium.
Transition from delirium tremens into permanent mania, with hectic, or dropsy, physconia, especially hard stomach.
Much inconsiderate, confused talking.
Incoherent speeches.
Talkativeness, by which untimely confessions are drawn from him.
All weaknesses are exposed, and all secrets divulged, without reserve (misers excepted, according to Trotter) ( “in vino veritas”); all hypocrisy ceases.
He chats, scolds, brags, and curses.
He is ashamed of his intoxication, and the more he tries to conceal it, the more he betrays it.
Talkativeness, and abeyance of usual caution.
Rapid and incoherent talk.
Rum, and some other spirits, made us very talkative and hilarious in about ten minutes; so much so that my friend was altogether a king; but as minutes flow away, so did our joyousness, and little by little we lessened our garrulity and became silent, almost morose, and extremely miserable.
Never were the extremes of happiness and misery brought so vividly before us, or seemed to be in such close proximity, as on these occasions.
Every mental perception was darkened, and the dreaminess, which is not an unpleasant feature of it, is a condition in which neither thought nor imagination acquired power.
Transported into a garden of pleasure, he only sees cheerful and agreeable objects, but the predominating feeling is love and desire.
Infatuated, he discovers beauties in his mistress that he had before overlooked, and he uses all the images of posy to warm his feelings and heighten his passion.
The delirium of love breaks out first.
He (an octogenarian) became so amorous that he addressed the most passionate and flattering speeches to a lamp-post, which he took for a lady.
A sanguine and choleric temperament grows sentimental and passionate; they show the greatest inclination to love and voluptuousness.
All, even the coarsest, desires and inclination become uncontrollable.
General excitement of all the senses.
Moral and physical exaltation.
Indescribable serenity of mind, with cheerfulness, which the face expresses.
Inner gratification, accompanied by kindly intentions towards others.
Cheerfulness and happy humor.
The imagination grows lively, the mind mostly free, and overflows with wit and humor.
Old age descends to the exuberance of youth.
A sulky man becomes social and sympathetic; even the serious philosopher grows merry, lays aside his severity, and enjoys jest and song.
Boisterous mirth.
Immoderate bursts of laughter.
Screaming, singing, and immoderate merriment.
Boisterous singing.
Bawdy songs.
The dance is accompanied by convulsive gestures.
Sweet outpourings of friendship and tender confessions.
All care is set aside; all grief is relieved or set aside (Hoffmann).
The weak one grows strong, and the despondent bold.
The despairing lover leaves his solitude, and forgets the indifference of his mistress.
Amid the pleasures of the cup the soldier no longer complains of the campaign; the sailor forgets the dangers of the storm.
The French the merry; the English, gloomy and thoughtful; the Germans, brutal.
He grows loving, kind, and obliging; or hard, violent, and repellent.
He is courteous to an enemy, and forgets insults; or he sneers at his friend, and broods revenge.
He sings, chats, and is cheerful; or he is dull, gloomy, and reserved.
Cheerfulness and wit degenerate into shamelessness and licentious jests.
The modest blush of shame vanishes, and improper, undignified acts are committed.
Animation displayed in the features and gestures.
Exhilaration of spirits.
Increased self-esteem and importance.
Feeling unusually strong and rich.
He weeps and sobs, with distorted face.
Efforts to escape from the bed or room, or from some frightful object.
Grievous sadness and melancholy, that end in tears, complaints, and sighs.
Sadness, often constant through the whole disease (delirium tremens).
Melancholy, with inclination to commit suicide.
Depression of spirits.
Restlessness and anxiousness that he vainly seeks to disguise by words, making it more conspicuous by that means.
Solitude and repose in bed increase the anxiety; he refuses to remain in bed, often even in the house, on this account, and escapes.
He grows unmanageable; demands to go peremptorily to attend to his business.
Sighting, anxiety, and apprehension of evil.
Mental inquietude, making it impossible for him to settle to any ordinary occupation, or to complete the tasks which he begins (chronic).
Feeling of vague and unaccountable dread (chronic).
Dread arising from actual delusions, such as the belief that an enemy is constantly lying in wait to inflict an injury, etc.
They think they are on shipboard at sea, and fear being drowned in the storm; they therefore throw everything in the room overboard, i. e., out of the window, into the street, or into the sea, as they think.
Thinks himself pursued by robbers, murderers, police, etc.
Vivid apprehension that he is in danger of falling down a precipice, even when walking on firm ground in broad daylight (chronic).
Moral degradation, marked by cowardice and untruthfulness (chronic).
Flightiness and violence in his conduct, and restless manner.
Stubbornness in all he does or leaves undone.
Quarrelsomeness.
Unreasonable inclination to quarrel.
He begins a quarrel, or imagines an insult which was not given, and challenges to combat or demands reparation.
Grudges long since adjusted or forgotten are renewed; he demands revenge or satisfaction, which frequently ends in bloodshed or even murder.
Impatience of contradiction.
Feeling insulted and abused by one’s friends.
Rapid changes of humor, exhibiting gayety, mirthfulness, petulance, anger, moroseness, and melancholy by turns.
Great ease in the use of the intellectual faculties.
Mind free, more animated, ideas flow more easily.
Rapid flow of thought, but he cannot keep his attention fixed continuously on one subject.
To relate a not very complicated occurrence causes an effort.
Rapidity and variety of thought.
The imagination of fanatics is occupied with religious ravings; they address confidential and irreverent discourses to the Deity.
Absurd fancies.
Greater confusion of ideas.
Mind disturbed; consciousness, the power of fixing the attention, were lessened.
The last power to be completely regained was consciousness.
Inattention to outward objects.
General intellectual enfeeblement.
Weak understanding.
Loss of judgment.
Absence of the senses and of reason.
Reasoning powers altogether disabled.
Stupidity.
Imbecility.
Dementia.
Insanity.
Insanity breaks out more easily in those who have received injuries to the skull.
Memory impaired.
Forgetfulness.
He perfectly recognizes familiar persons in the height of the disease (delirium tremens); he mistakes one person for another.
He strikes a post, which he mistakes for a man who will not get out of his way.
If only for moments, he confounds one person with another, and thinks he recognizes an absent friend in a stranger who is present.
Blunted sensibilities.
A weak-nerved person shows blunted senses and childish freaks.
The phlegmatic temperament remains passive and silent, and rather falls from his chair before giving loud evidences of his intoxication.
Coma.
Very vivid mental shocks shorten intoxication very much.
Increased perspiration moderates intoxication very much.
Head.
Feeling of lightness and clearness in the head, and afterwards confusion and weight.
Head dull, clouded, and hazy.
Attacks of vertigo, with sudden faintness and reeling; or falling down, with momentary loss of consciousness, but no twitchings.
Vertigo.
Violent vertigo, nearly changing to apoplexy.
Vertigo enough to cause falling; or actual falling down.
Staggering, uncertain gait.
He staggers while walking and standing.
He strives, with a certain effort, to keep himself upright while staggering.
Momentary attacks of vertigo.
Sometimes head trembles.
The head nods.
Effusion of water into the membranes and ventricles of the brain.
Softening of the brain.
Induration of the brain.
Congestion to head.
Congestion of the brain and its membranes.
Violent congestion to the head and organs of the chest.
Apoplexy.
He became quite insensible and unable to sustain himself on his feet.
Four hours after, his consciousness and sensibility had entirely ceased; breathing, snoring irregular; pulse 80.
Enlarged pupil, without contractility when exposed to the light.
Power of swallowing entirely gone.
Death after fifteen hours.
Real apoplexy sets in during his highest stages of intoxication, with a complete insensibility of the iris, the skin, etc.
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.