Chloralum - Mental (inc. personality) symptoms - T.F. Allen

MIND

Mind

Emotional.

Feeling as though he had been intoxicated by wine (soon),

Feeling of intoxication when first awaking; this soon passed off,

All the phenomena of delirium tremens,

Pain (from an ulcer in cornea) relieved in half an hour after taking, but the patient became somewhat delirious, and being missed from the ward, was found wandering about alone in the upper stories of the building (60 grains),

Became delirious, and hurled a hot-water bottle at an imaginary figure which stood menacing her at the foot of the bed,

A consciousness of everything going on around him, with an inability to resist giving utterance to what he knew to be profound nonsense (3 drachms after ten minutes),

A pleasant excitation for a quarter of an hour, with pulse 88 (before taking 68), (immediately),

In answer to questions, he said that his condition was of the most agreeable kind (soon),

Lively mood, with loud laughing and witty remarks (very soon),

A muscular and moral excitability similar to a slight champagne intoxication, whereby the prover felt pleasant, smiled, and danced,

Generally so much reduced was she, alike in morale and in physique, that though once an accomplished horsewoman and habituated to danger and fatigue, she constantly evinced the profoundest terror without any adequate cause, and was unable to walk a hundred yards without sinking from sheer exhaustion,

The temper, never very good, has been much more irritable than usual ever since,

From having been a cheerful, upright, exceptionally intelligent, and strong-willed woman, she had become morose, deceitful, and imbecile alike in intellect, memory and will,

From having been a woman of strong will and excellent mental power, she became listless and peevish, childish, indeed, in many things, begging for chloral,

Intellectual.

Inability to concentrate thought (second day),

Confusion of thought; after an hour mind wandered much,

Great confusion of mind; a feeling as if he were now in one county and now in another, and with an anxious desire to get home (3 drachms after ten minutes),

Mentally, while she enjoyed a distinguished reputation as an authoress, she betrayed a confusion of mind, inability to concentrate her thoughts, and impaired memory altogether remarkable in one so highly gifted by nature,

Could not keep the thread of sermon at church (second day),

While unconscious, talks quietly but incoherently (after fifty-five minutes),

A healthy, energetic man became almost idiotic through its use,

He woke up refreshed in the morning, without any bad symptoms, but could not recollect the disturbance by which he was awakened, nor that he replied,

Seemed in a peculiar state of consciousness; knew that she was very ill, and herself insisted upon my being sent for (after one hour and a half),

Slight stupefaction (after one hour),

Could not be roused, and made no attempt to answer questions,

Found to be insensible (after twelve hours),