The fresh poison of the German viper (adder) is triturated with sugar of milk. Compare other serpent venoms.
Generalities
OEdema; with coma. Swelling, (<) lips and eyelids; of whole r. Side of body; of lymphatics extending from the bite, with inflammation; with insensibility. Bitten part swollen; with blackness, hardness and spots; with inflammation; with oedema, redness and spots; with inflammation; with oedema, redness and heat, parts hard and tender, with tensive pain; with pain, then numbness and rigidity, after wards suppuration successively of finger, forearm and axilla; and of mouth and abdomen ( he sucked the wound), with general weakness, hands black and cold, bloody vomiting and diarrhoea. Swelling of face after bite on cheek, parts about the bite livid, next day diffuse cellular inflammation extended from the wound to neck and sternum and opposite side of face.
Swelling of bitten tongue, he fell to the ground in asphyxia, respiration and pulse stopped, face purple, the circumference of neck exceeded that of head; tongue blue immovable, protruding, with constant dribbling of saliva, S. of submaxillary and parotid glands, gasping for air, pallor, anxious expression; and vessels on under surface gorged with blood, face pale, cold sweat on forehead, pulse quick and irregular, bloody salivation, T. felt benumbed, later it appeared almost square, under surface nearly black, inability to articulate, difficulty in swallowing, the S. extended to r. nipple and had a crackling or emphysematous feel, as if air were extravasated in cellular membrane.
Swelling of the bitten limb; with darkness; with dark redness; covered with phlyctaenules; with ecchymoses, and at the place of the bite ulcers exuding sanious liquid; at anniversary of the bite, with development of spots and malaise; like phlegmonous erysipelas, with ecchymoses around the bite; doughy, temperature elevated, cutaneous veins looked like red stripes, pain on motion; painful oedema every year at the first hot weather, with colic and retching, digestion disturbed, somnolence, gums fungoid, skin icteric, chilliness, physical and intellectual weariness.
Swelling of arm, shoulder, chest and back of side bitten with inflammation; S. of hand. arm and r. side of trunk, with pain causing repeated fainting; of the bitten arm, almost purple, with anxiety, headache, vomiting and shivering, in a few hours bulla on a red base over the wound, afterwards similar bullae all over body, even on face, the intermediate spaces red and swollen, when ruptured much turbid serum escaped, the eruption lasted from May to November, every May afterwards lassitude, anxiety, nausea, headache, etc., then after six or eight days the white cicatrix became red and painful, then tingling and swelling of arm then bullae lasting five or six weeks.
Swelling of arm and hand, gradually extended over chest, with nausea and vomiting, arm hot, livid, covered with black and dark red spots, skin tense, the livid red color (>) pressure, out the spots of ecchymoses were not affected thereby, at the bite phlyctenular blisters with reddish serum, also phlyctenulae on back of hand, cephalalgia, vertigo, rapid pulse, pale tongue, hands began to diminish in size, but shoulder was large, covered with black mottled spots, l. scapular region and part of r. livid red, with spots of ecchymoses, the redness and spots extended over anterior part of chest, r. breast oedematous, hard and ecchymosed (the trouble in breast was apparently caused by a blow) afterwards the ecchymoses ad infiltration spread over nates, sclerotica yellow.
Swelling of arm to shoulder, with vomiting and diarrhoea of bilious and sour liquid, then of substances smelling like broth, thirst, pulse scarcely perceptible, skin pale and covered with clammy sweat, tongue and affected arm oedematous as far as elbow, the latter colorless and insensible, delirium at times, next day skin hot and dry, axillary glands swollen and sensitive, swelling extending along spine to r. hip, afterwards bluish redness of the swelling, the places upon which he lay were bluish-back, skin over swollen part insensible.
Swelling of the bitten hand; with stitches; with stitches on motion; with tingling pain and coolness, gangrene threatened, temperature of arm low, S. extended to axilla; extending finally to hypogastrium; and wrist, burning pain when bitten, soon extending to middle of elbow and thence to axilla, diminishing in the would as it extended, when the pain reached axilla there were constriction and heat in head, throat and r. side of tongue.
Swelling of the bitten finger; and of hand, with stupefaction; with heat ad contraction, the contraction soon affected arm, and arm was swollen, (<) about joints; extending to shoulders and chest with uneasiness, vomiting and sleeplessness; oedematous and of forearm; slight, white, back of hand swollen, red lines reaching to elbow, forearm tender, next day arm swollen and ecchymosed, axillary glands swollen and inflamed, that evening ecchymoses extended down side to crest of ilium, afterwards hardness of forearm and elbow, with stiffness and pain on bending elbow; head hanging down, tongue protruding, face and lids swollen, oedema of submucous tissue of mouth and pharynx, ptyalism, vomiting, pain at pit of stomach, pain in r. axilla, in a few hours arm was swollen; axillary glands inflamed and painful, next morning back and inner part of arm ecchymosed, the finger (bitten part) was the last to become painful and swell.
OEdematous swelling of arm (after bite on index), tongue furred, pulse rapid and irregular, oppression at praecordia, hurried respiration, depression of nervous energy, red lines in absorbent glands, which were tender and enlarged. Arm and hand swollen, grayishyellow, the bitten finger bluish-black, the wound surrounded by blisters, scarification over the wound caused oozing of black blood.
Swelling of the bitten thumb, and hand and forearm, shiny, tense, elastic, not pitting on pressure, peculiar redness of arm, red line of absorbents along arm to axilla, thence it separated into three lines which spread over chest, from elbow to axilla they appeared inflamed, in patches, fingers swollen and immovable, bursting sensation in hand and arm, smarting in axilla, pain on pressure in axillary glands and along absorbents, pulse weak and sluggish. Bitten thumb black, hand swollen and spotted, next day arm covered with spots, above elbow sores filled with liquid.
Swelling of bitten limbs as far abdomen, with feverish coldness of the limbs; as far as A., blue and yellow; as far as A., and black; S., with black spots, the S. extended to abdomen, then syncope and death; up to knee and soon to abdomen, green, red and yellow; to knee, immovable and insensible, the bitten spot, dark blue; and covered with bluish-red spots (after bite on toe); and hard, insensible, with inflammation of superficial veins (after bite on toe). Swelling of the bitten leg, with yellow color; as far as abdomen, bluish-brown, with blackish spots about the bite.
Swelling of the bitten foot, with chronic suppuration; dorsum and whole toe, with blue color; with pain as if blown up with air, with two bluish-yellow stripes gradually extending along leg to thigh and abdomen; becomes indurated and bluish-red; as far as knee, hard and bluish-red, S. remained for years; pain in the wound, afterwards foot was inflamed and swollen as far as knee, later paralysis of foot so that he was unable to ride horseback; and leg and abdomen, with almost black color; as far as abdomen, grayish-yellow, covered with blisters, after fourteen years the knee was still stiff and leg drawn backward; and leg and thigh, with redness, veins and superficial lymphatics swollen, bluish- red above popliteal space, rest of body oedematous, (<) upper lids and tongue, which he cold scarcely move, pulse small, rapid, respiration difficult, prostration, anxiety, pressure in praecordial region, nausea, the wound became bluish red, comatose, afterwards tongue, (<) tip, was denuded and blisters formed, lymphatic vessels and glands, (<) popliteal space, were hard and painful.
Swelling of the toes to near knee, with a red circle around the wound, the wound, the wound was filled with a drop of lymph, which was no sooner wiped off than it was succeeded by another.
Black blood flows from a wound near the bite, cellular tissue green and blue. Apparent modification of the function of the blood, fibrin is altered, globules less able to perform their function, with tendency to haemoptysis, especially epistaxis, imperfect coagulation. Ecchymoses in endocardium and pericardium, lungs hyperaemic, mucous membrane covered with ecchymoses, the tissue oedematous, mucous membrane of intestines ecchymosed, blood did not coagulate. Persons become prematurely old, development of children is arrested. Falling down when standing. Cramps, (<) flexor muscles. Subsultus tendinum. Spasms; with raging pains in head, jaws and abdomen. Epilepsy. Collapse.
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.