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THUJA. – THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PURE MATERIA MEDICA By TIMOTHY F. ALLEN, A.M., M.D.

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EYE.

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Objective.
► A chronic
scrofulous inflammation of the eyes, with swelling of the cervical
glands, gradually disappeared during the first four weeks, [12]. ►
Redness of the white of the left eye near the cornea, in the morning,
without sensation (after seventy-four hours), [8]. ► Great
redness of the whites of the eyes and of the inner surface of the lids.
A slight swelling beginning in the evening, gradually increasing the
whole next day, with much lachrymation and itching of both eyes; this
was repeated still more violently after eight days, [12]. ► The
eyes are red and painful on every effort, [13].
► *The white of the eye is blood red,
[1]. ►
Right eye congested with blood (twenty-first day), [16]. ► *The white
of the eye is very much inflamed and red
, with biting and
pressure as from sand, [1]. ► The weak eye is red and burning hot, [12]. [460.]
► (A spot on the cornea of the right
eye becomes smaller and more transparent), [12]. ► Small
ulcers in the eyes and on the head, with ulceration behind the ears,
forming scabs, [12]. ► Eyes continually closed (twenty-ninth
day), [76]. ►
Eyes glued with mucus on waking (thirteenth day), [73]. ► The
eyes secrete much gum (sixty-sixth day), [73].
► Convulsive movements of the eyes,
and a feeling as of a grain of sand in them, [12]. ►
Squinting with both eyes, alternately coming and going, [12]. ►
Squinting of the left eye, [12]. ► Weakness of the eyes (third day), [68]. ►
The eyes are weak and painful from very effort, [12]. [470.] ► Weakness of the eyes, particularly
observable when writing (third and fourth days), [69]. ► Weakness
of the eyes
when reading (ninth day), [71]. ► *Weak
eyes, pressure as from fine sand in them
, [1]. ►
Sensation of weakness of the eyes, with need of resting them, with
burning and itching in them, and sensitiveness of all the surroundings
of the eyeballs, [12]. ► Weakness of the eyes; on reading a
quarter of an hour, the letters run together; it often seems as if the
gaze were fastened upon a letter so that he cannot read further; the
right eye is worse than the left; a glass afforded no assistance, though
the eyes have no appearance of disease, [12].
► Weakness of the eyes, even on
exerting them a little; they ache deep in, and everything seems to
become constantly smaller, until objects swim together, [12]. ► The
weakness of the eyes increases, so that she sees badly both near and
distant objects, [12]. ► Subjective. ►
*Feeling of dryness in the eyes
, [6]. ► Right
eye dry, and in the margin of the lower lid a burning spot, as if a stye
were about to form (twelfth day), [32].
► Feeling of dryness in both eyes
(after a quarter of an hour; thirteenth day), [32]. [480.] ► *A feeling as of sand in both eyes, [12]. ►
*Feeling of sand in the eyes
, especially in the right
(sixty-third day), [15]. ► Pain in eyes and head at night
(thirty-first day), [43]. ► Pains in the eyes compressing the lids
together, [13]. ► Pain in the eyes as after too great
effort, obliging to close them, [12].
► The eyes are sensitive to air, and
are easily irritated, [12]. ► The eyes feel dim, as if she was in the
dark, [89]. ►
The eyes constantly long for a warm covering; as soon as the eyes are
uncovered they immediately become painful, and it seems as though cold
streamed from the head out through them, [12].
► Painful burning in the eyes with
white mucus in the canthi, [12]. ► Dry burning in the eyes, [12]. [490.] ► *Burning of the eyes (eighteenth
day), [76]. ►
Burning in the eyes without redness, with very indistinct vision, [12]. ►
Burning in the left eye near the internal canthus, compelling him to rub
it (third day), [68]. ► *Burning and stinging in both eyes and eyelids,
with injection of the cornea
, in the evening (ninety-fifth
and ninety-sixth days), [43]. ► Burning in the eyes, which were pained by
the light, with the headache (nineteenth day). With the headache,
burning in the right eye, which disappeared on repeatedly washing it
with cold water (thirty-fourth day), [46].
► *Violent burning in the eyes and
eyelids
; at 2 P.M.; burning-pressing pains in the left eye,
on the whole upper surface of the globe, aggravated by touch, in the
evening (sixteenth day); burning in the eyes with the sneezing
(fifty-fifth day); in the evening (sixty-seventh day); in the right eye
(sixty-eighth day); burning and pressing in both eyes (sixty-ninth day),
[72]. ►
Burning in the eyes, especially in the internal canthi, in the evening
(twenty-sixth day); on rising in the morning (forty-second day); slight
in the morning (fifty-second day); at 10 A.M. (fifty-eighth day); as if
the room were smoky (for an hour), in the evening (sixty-seventh day);
after dinner (seventy-third day), [73].
► Pressure and sensitiveness in the
eyes (twentieth day), [73]. ► Pressure in both eyes (fifteenth day), [26]; (first day), [86]. ► Pressure
in the eyes
for two or three days, [1]. [500.]
► Constant pressure in the eyes,
especially in bright light, [12]. ► A pressive pain, as from a grain of sand
in the left eye, continues without any other symptoms, [12]. ► A painful
stitch through the centre of the left eye, commencing in the centre of
the brain
(fourth day), [23].
► An unusual distressing sticking
sensation in the eyes, [12]. ► Sticking in the eyes in the morning (in
the sharp air), [1]. ► Some stitches in the eyes, always in a
bright light, [1]. ► Stitch in the left eye (sixty-eighth
day), [13]. ►
Sticking in the right eye (seventy-ninth day), [13]. ► The
sticking pains in the eyes are aggravated, [12]. ► Brow and
Orbit.
► The hair of the
brows falls out with much itching, [12].
[510.] ►
Dry tetter on the eyebrows and head, itching and stinging, [12]. ►
In the evening a painful little tubercle in the middle of the left
eyebrow (fifth day), [33]. ► The roots of the hair of the left eyebrow
are sensitive when passing the hand over them (sixteenth day), [72]. ►
Tearing pain in the left eyebrow, disappearing after touch

(after eleven hours), [8]. ► Slight drawing over the left eyebrow
(forty-fifth day), [72]. ► Slight pressing in the lower border of
the right orbit, soon disappearing; but the orbital edge remained
sensitive to the touch, and to the closing of the eye for a quarter of
an hour (seventy-first day), [72].
► Pressure and tension in the left
and afterwards, also, in the right orbit, in the morning after waking
(fifth day), [33]. ► Painful tension
in the bottom of the left orbit for
several minutes, at 7.30 P.M. (sixth day), [32]. ►
Drawing pain in the bottom of the right orbit, continuing a quarter of
an hour, in the morning (thirteenth day), [32].
► A decided pressure above the right
eye, externally (after three hours and three-quarters), [5]. [520.] ► A pressing sticking above the left eye,
which extended toward the right, and then disappeared, [9]. ► Lids.
► *Agglutination of the lids at night,
[12]. ►
Eyes agglutinated for several mornings (forty-ninth day), [14]. ►
Agglutination of the eyes, with a sensation as of sand in them, in the
morning (fifty-eighth day), [13]. ► Eyes agglutinated, with pressure in them,
in the morning (seventy-first day), [14].
► Eyelids slightly agglutinated on
waking in the morning (fifty-ninth and sixty-fourth days), [73]. ►
Eyes somewhat agglutinated and watery in the open air (sixty-ninth day),
[73]. ►
The tips of the eyelashes become covered with fine light-brown scurf, [12]. ►
Accumulation of hardened mucus in the inner canthus all day, [1]. ►
The eyelids were thick, as if she had cried a long time, [12]. [530.] ► Swelling of the upper lids (after
seventy-six, and one hundred and twenty hours), [6]. ► The
eyelids swell, become red and hot, with photophobia, [12]. ► The
eyelids become redder and more painful, and secrete much thick,
glutinous, corrosive mucus (sixth month), [12].
► The canthi of the eyes are often
inflamed for one or two days, with sticking and redness of the white of
the eye, [12]. ► With increasing inflammation of the
eyelids, the eyes become dry, and itch very much, [12]. ► The
inflamed eyelids become covered with small ulcers, [12]. ► A red
pimple on the margin of the lower lid, [1].
► Frequent white desquamation from
the eyelids, [12]. ► An old inflammation of the eyelids
diminished rapidly from day to day, after the dose, until there was only
a nightly agglutination of the lids, [12].
► Thick, red, burning eyelids,
spasmodically drawn together, with which the vision is very dim and
obscure, [12]. [540.] ► A
stye on the right eye, after the disappearance of which the eye became
inflamed, [12]. ► Quivering in the upper eyelid (soon,
second and third days), [68]. ► Frequent quiverings of the lower lid of
the left eye (forty-eighth and forty-ninth days), [44]. ►
Falling down of the upper lid several times a day, especially in the
evening by the candlelight, with a contractive sensation in it, [12]. ►
In the morning she cannot open the eyes well, and in the evening the
lids are very weak, [12]. ► On waking, was for a long time unable to
open his eyelids; they were painful, and closed involuntarily
(ninety-seventh day), [43]. ► In the evening the eyelids feel as if the
could not open them, lasting a long time (after fourteen days), [12]. ►
Jerking of the left eyelid, [12]. ► Jerking constriction of the lids, [12]. ►
Heaviness of the eyelids, with slight burning in the eyes, and heat in
the right ear (seventy-second day), [73].
[550.] ►
*Feeling as if the eyelids were swollen, and a foreign body were in the
eye
(fourteenth day), [66].
► Boring pain above the right inner
canthus (after three days), [11]. ► A feeling in the internal canthus of the
right eye, as if a grain of sand had fallen into the eye; this continued
until bedtime, and rendered the movement of the eyelid somewhat painful,
though no objective alteration in the appearance of the organ could be
detected (fifteenth day), [74]. ► Sensation of heat and dryness in the left
outer canthus, as if the part would be inflamed (after twenty-nine
hours), [6]. ►
Burning of the eyelids, [12]. ► A burning pressure in the outer canthus
of the left eye, without redness (after nine days), [1]. ► *Burning
and stinging in the edges of the eyelids in the evening
(even
the smoke of tobacco burns in the nose), (seventy-first day), [73]. ►
Burning in eyelids, and less distinct vision in the evening
(thirty-first day); with obscuration of sight (thirty-second and
thirty-third days), [43]. ► Slight burning in the left external
canthus, in the forenoon (sixteenth day); in the canthi (twentieth day);
in the external canthi (fifty-third day), [72].
► Burning in the external canthi,
after rising (thirteenth day), [66].
[560.] ►
Cutting in the upper eyelid, [81].
► A sticking and feeling of dryness
in the right outer canthus, as if a grain of sand had got into it
(twelfth day), [32]. ► A violent, deeply piercing, sharp stitch
in the right inner canthus from time to time (after two hours), [1]. ►
Violent stitch in the inner canthus of the left eye, which exudes
moisture, by which the vision is obscured (after one hour and a
quarter), [5]. ► Lachrymal Apparatus. ► Frequent lachrymation, the tears do not
run down, but remain in the eyes, [12].
► Painful lachrymation of the left
eye, worse in the air, [12]. ► Lachrymation, was obliged to wipe the
eyes constantly (sixty-fourth day), [13].
► Lachrymation, so that he could not
see clearly (sixth month), [13]. ► Very profuse lachrymation in the cold,
the eyes run a stream (after three months), [15]. ►
Watering of the left eye while walking in the open air (after nine
hours), [1]. [570.] ►
Tearfulness of the eyes in the air (fifty-fifth day), [73]. ► Eyes
continually watered when walking against the wind, which had already
been frequently remarked (sixty-eighth day), [73]. ►
Frequent lachrymation of the left eye (when walking in the open air),
(fifth day), [33]. ► The left eye began to water, the right
one remaining dry (after fifteen minutes, tenth day), [32]. ► Ball.
► Violent pain in the right eyeball,
but soon disappearing, leaving behind a sensibility of the eye to touch
of the hand, which remained a long time (first day); immediately on
waking the same pain re-established itself (second day), [56]. ►
Pressure in the eyeballs and on the skull, as if the eyeballs were
pushed into their orbits by a stone, in the evening (seventieth day), [14]. ►
Pressure in the right eyeball, [59].
► Drawing tearing in both eyeballs,
in the evening (seventeenth day), [56].
► Tearing in the right eyeball,
coming from the brain (first day), [84].
► Stitches in the left eyeball and in
the right metacarpus (first day), [84].
► Pupil. [580.] ►
Pupils dilated in the evening (thirty-fourth day), [43]. ► Great
dilatation of the pupils (after six hours), [8]. ► Great
contraction of the pupils lasting five days (after one hour), [9]. ►
Vision.
► *Dimness of vision
like a mist before the eyes, and pressure in them, as if they would be
pressed out of the head, or as if they were swollen
, [1]. ►
*Dimness of vision in the open air, like a veil, for near and distant
objects, with confusion of the head for half an hour
, [1]. ►
*The vision seems dim, with a feeling as if something were before the
eyes
, [12]. ► The eyes become dim, weak, and squinting,
[12]. ►
Failure of the eyes when reading (within two hours), [71]. ► Can
scarcely see anything more by the left eye, associated with photophobia,
with lachrymation and agglutination of the lids, [12]. ► Indistinct
sight
(seventh day), [26].
[590.] ►
Obscuration of the sight with dilatation of the pupils, and burning of
the eyelids
(forty-fifth to fifty-second day), [43]. ►
Obscuration of the eyes while writing (first day), [70]. ►
Failure of the sight, with the aching in the forehead (fourth day), [46]. ►
Complete amaurosis of the right eye, and commencing weakness of vision
of the left, requiring the brightest illumination, with rapid aching,
loss of power on slight effort, associated with red swelling of the
lids, secreting mucus; gradually became perfectly cured within nine
months, [12]. ► Short-sighted, [1]. ►
Short-sightedness increased, [12].
► So short-sighted that he could
scarcely see the ground, even near objects were indistinct (after nine
months), [13]. ► Double vision when reading, momentarily
relieved by closing the left eye, [12].
► Photophobia in the open air, which
had lasted for many years; with the seeing of a dark-red shine ceases,
so that she can dispense with the blue glasses hitherto worn (ninth
week), [12]. ►
Slight sensitiveness in the right eye, in the morning (twenty-second
day); sensitiveness of the eyes (forty-third day), [73]. [600.]
► Sudden blackness before the eyes
while sitting quietly in the afternoon, so that she sees nothing, at the
same time the voices of those standing about seem to come from a great
distance, [12]. ► Sudden attack of blackness before the
right eye, with crawling and an asleep sensation in the tongue, right
half of the face and down the right arm, even to paralysis of the whole
right side, and falling down and becoming delirious, speedily and
entirely passing off, except frequent attacks of faintness while
standing in the forenoon, in a pregnant woman (seventh month), [12]. ►
In the evening by the candlelight it became dark before the eyes, so
that he could not see distinctly, reading and writing were very
difficult; the next morning on rising fluttering of bright white spots
before the eyes, it seemed blue when the eyes were closed, it was
difficult to read and write (after twenty-two weeks), [13]. ► It
becomes black before the eyes, like a faintness, by paroxysms, [12]. ►
Dark before the right eye, with twitching of the upper lid, [12]. ►
While reading, objects seem dark, with sensation about the eyes as if he
had not slept enough, [1]. ► Vision of the eye that is not inflamed
seemed dark, [1]. ► Vision seemed impaired; everything seen
with the left eye seemed enveloped in a fog, so that when he closes the
right eye he can scarcely read, because the letters seem covered in
spots with fog (after six months), [13].
► Mistiness of sight, with
dulness of head (fifth day), [26].
► At a distance it seems like looking
through a fog; near, everything seems smaller, [12]. [610.] ► Every object seen by the right eye seems
smaller than natural, [12]. ► Biting in the corner of the right eye,
once about 5 P.M. (without any cause affecting the eyes), the
surrounding objects swam before my eyes; I could not see clearly, much
less read; this lasted nearly a quarter of an hour, [59]. ► A dark
net swims before the eye with double vision, [12]. ► When
reading the print swims before the eyes, [12].
► All objects before the eyes swim on
looking for only a short time (fourteenth month), [12]. ► Black
points before the eyes, which seemed to move about, even on closing the
eyes, with dulness of the occiput, [3].
► Small black flashes flit before the
eyes, [12]. ►
A black woollen thread seems to float before the left eye; it actually
seems to exist, and he tries to catch it (twenty-first week), [13]. ►
Dark spots before the eyes while reading, so that reading was difficult
(fifty-fifth day), [13]. ► Clouds and streaks
(muscæ volitantes)
were hovering before the eyes,
accompanied with indistinctness of sight,
which continued next day (ninety-seventh day), [43]. [620.] ► Illusion of vision; while writing all
objects about him seem to tremble (immediately after eating), [9]. ►
A gray spot before the right eye, with diminution and swaying to and fro
of all objects, on closing one eye, worse in the morning, [12]. ► A gray
spot flickers before the right eye, at times surrounded by a golden
halo, at times whirling in a circle; the eye seems especially dim, and
the white frequently red and hot, [12].
► Frequent appearance as if a bird
were flying before the eye, [12]. ► On going to dinner, a sudden sparkling
before the eyes, and a multitude of black shining points swam before
them, so that he could not clearly make out surrounding objects. After
awhile this symptom disappeared; first in the right eye (fifth day), [74]. ►
Flickering before the eyes at night, immediately after taking a dose, [12]. ►
*Great flickering before the eyes
, associated with wavy
movements, especially while writing (nineteenth day), [13]. ►
*Flickering before the eyes
, so that he could scarcely see
during dinner (thirty-fourth day), [13].
► Fluttering and flickering before
the eyes, so that vision was indistinct, continued to recur (after
twenty weeks), [13]. ► Fluttering bright zigzags before the eyes
(seventieth day), [13]. [630.] ► A
wavy, zigzag movement before the eyes for an hour after rising from bed,
making vision very indistinct (seventeenth day), [13]. ► On
entering a dark room, a luminous disk
of the size of a pear hovered before his eyes,
it shone like a firefly (sixth day), [33].
► Golden points floating downward in
the eyes, and slowly disappearing, [12].
► Colored lightnings at times
shooting through the eyes, [12]. ► *Seeing of a luminous disk, shining like a
firefly
. This was sometimes perceived in the daytime, but
most frequently at twilight, in the room. Afterwards this luminous
circle, which followed the movements of the eyeball, and was hovering at
various distances, now before one, now before both eyes, assumed a more
elliptic form, and had a dark violet or blackish nucleus in the centre.
Sometimes the disk was of the size of a millet or hemp-seed, but always
luminous on the edge (till forty-sixth day), [33]. ► Bright
blue glistening spots before the eyes, so that he could scarcely see
distinctly in the morning on rising (after six months), [13]. ► Bright
flickering zigzags before the eyes, so that he was obliged to close them
while writing, while it lasted he could not see distinctly (sixty-ninth
day), [13].

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