DIGITALIS.
EYE.
► Objective. ► Violent inflammation of the eyes, [1]. ► Reddened eyes, with
painfulness, especially in the evening, for five days, [10].
► Eyes somewhat red, more sensitive than usual to the
impression of light (second day), [65]. ► Eyes dim and weak (fourth to sixth day), [62]. ► Subjective. ► Burning in the eye followed by a small pustule, with a small
areola of inflamed vessels in the periphery of the cornea towards the inner canthus of the
right eye (fourth day), [71h]. ► Brow and Orbit. ►
Intense fixed pain over right orbit (after six hours), [76].
[160.] ► Burning pain
in the right supercialiary ridge, with dimness of sight, as from a veil, [9]. ► Pressive pain in the right
supercialiary ridge towards the external canthus, [7].
► Throbbing pain in the orbits, [34]. ► Lids. ► Inflammation of the meibomian glands, [1]. ► Swelling of the lower lid,
which makes looking down difficult, [1]. ► Agglutination in the morning, followed by weakness of the
eyes, [10]. ►
Heaviness in the lids, in the evening, with inability to hold them open, [10]. ► Smarting, burning in the
external canthus, [6]. ►
Painful scratching in the inner canthus as from coarse dust, [5].
► Sore pain in the margins of the lids, on closing the
eyes, in the evening, in bed, [11]. ► Lachrymal Apparatus. [170.]
► Lachrymation, more in the room than in the open air;
the eyes are dim, hot, full of red vessels, with pressive pain and hardened mucus in the
canthi, [12]. ►
Biting lachrymation, [1]. ►
Watery discharge from the eyes, [51]. ► Conjunctiva. ►
Inflamed conjunctiva, [74]. ►
Conjunctiva of the red, and lids red, [74]. ► Ball. ► Inclination of
both eyes to turn towards the left, with pain on turning them towards the right, when
everything seems to be doubled and tripled, with puffy face, [2].
► Pain in the eyes; intolerable aching in the eyeball on
touch, [1]. ►
Pressure in the right eyeball, coming and going suddenly, [12].
► Pressive pain in the eyeballs, [1]. ► Pupil. ► Pupils only slightly sensitive, [23]. [49]. [180.] ► Pupils dilated,
[74].; (intox) (sixth day), [75]., etc. ► Pupils, especially
the right, dilated (after three grains), [63]. ► Pupils dilated and movable (second day), [76]. ► *Pupils dilated and insensible,
[74]. [82].,
etc. ► Pupils slightly dilated, [75]. ► Greatly dilated pupils
(after one hour), [13]. ►
Pupils remarkably larger, [95]. ►
Pupils appear smaller, [95]. ►
Contracted pupils, continuing six day, [18]. ► Pupils strongly contracted (after half an hour), [12]. [190.] ► Frequent alternate contraction and dilatation of the pupil, [95]. ► Vision. ► With contracted pupil, the power of sight is stronger,
clearer, [95]. ►
Visual power diminished, sight dim (after every dose), [61].
► Obscuration of vision, [44].
► Slight obscuration of vision, [38]. ► Weak, indistinct vision, [42]. ► Indistinct
vision, as though a cloud or fog passed before the eyes, [34].
► Some considerable derangement of vision (after six
hours), [76]. ► Dim
vision, [51].; (intox.) (sixth day), [75], etc. ► Objects are only
dimly visible, [51]., [Not found. -Hughes.] [200.] ► Dim
weak vision, for forty-eight hours, [14]. ► Sight impaired, so that she could not clearly distinguish
objects before her (second day), [76]. ► Confused vision, amounting to blindness, [74]. [77]. ► Blindness, [33]. [For a
month after omitting the medicine, with throbbing pain and sense of fulness in the eyelids.
-Hughes.] ► Blindness, [33].
► Blindness, amaurosis, for three days, [45]. ► Peculiar sensation in the
eyes; at first they seemed to be suddenly blinded, as on going suddenly from the dark into a
bright light; then it seemed as though sparks were floating about in the air; this was
associated with vertigo, and lasted a quarter of an hour (fourth day), [58]. ► Unpleasant distortion of
vision, with anxiety and pressure in the eyes, as if a finger were pressing upon them, in
the afternoon (second day), [63]. ► Flickering before the eyes (after half an hour), [60]. ► Flickering before
the eyes, with double vision (after half an hour), [59].
► Flickering before the left eye first appeared (second
morning); towards noon affected also the right, so that he was enabled to distinguish three
varieties of figures in the field of vision; closing the eye and rubbing it slowly caused
clouds of phosphorescence; the eye was very sensitive to light, pupils however not dilated
(second day). The figures which the flickering formed in these experiments were called
flickering roses, because the form of the rose was the type; in the first experiment there
were round spots in the field of vision, the space circumscribed by four deep oval lines
forming four large convex indentations, and the waves of light and shade surrounding this
exhibited the same from only less indented; the flickering figures which appeared on the
second day, and which reached their highest point on the third day, were surrounded by
curved lines with five indentations, but more superficial, which were again surrounded by
enlarging waves of light and shade with superficial indentations; during the latter days
when the flickering decreased, there were noticed only fragments with the rose formation on
the side, like the small segment of the larger and more superficially indentated circle, [71b]. [210.] ► Flickering before the left eye, very slight, but therewith he
was unable to recognize a distinct conformation in the division between light and shade; it
seemed as though with every wink of the eye the crystalline lens trembled and thereby
altered refraction, producing rapid commingling of the lights and shadows of objects (second
day); on the next day the flickering was more noticeable, and not only on winking, but as
often as he looked from the light portion of the field of vision (as for example the
fireplace) to a dark portion; this caused the supposition that it was not a mechanical
effect, as he was at first inclined to think, but was due to a sudden change from light to
shade; he now directed the eye to the bright sky, and suddenly covered the head without
closing the eye or moving it in the slightest, when the flickering was noticed quite as
distinctly as before; on the succeeding day this was more noticed in the right eye; repeated
observations sharpened the vision, and he was able to distinguish a definite conformation;
there seemed to be in the middle of the visual field an alternately disappearing and
reappearing roundish spot of a mild light, and about this several concentric waves of light
and shade in similar motion; this flickering continued during the use of Digitalis, for some
days (7); at last it intermitted and appeared for only a short time on going into a room
from the open air, after moderate exercise, also on walking or going up stairs, [71]. ► All kinds of
forms float before the eyes, [42]. ► Muscæ volitantes before his eyes on looking at distant
objects, [16]. ►
White spots and black rings waving before the eyes (lasting over an hour), [95]. ► More numerous spots,
stripes, white surfaces, wavering before the eyes, [93].
► Luminous objects seem to jump before his eyes, on
covering them, [16]. [The muscæ volitantes of S. 212
become these when the eyes are covered and pressed upon. -Hughes.] ►
Fiery appearances before the eyes, [33]. [With S. 92.]
► Fiery sparks like lightning before the right eye, about
noon (second day), [63]. ►
The flame of the light seems larger and whiter, [16]. ► The flame of a coal-fire appeared blue, [83]. [220.] ► All objects seemed covered whit snow, in the morning, on
waking, [39]. ► The
faces of people standing in the room seem as pale as corpses, [16].
► Appearances of colors before the eyes, red, green,
yellow, like a shimmering light in the twilight, [8]. ► Objects, and even silver, seem yellow, [42]. ► Objects seem green or
yellow, [51]. ►
Hallucinations of vision, [74]. [77].
EAR.
► Objective. ► The glans behind the ear are painfully swollen, [10]. ► External. ► Drawing pain beneath the right mastoid process, relieved by
pressure, [3]. ►
Some stitches behind the ear, [13]. ► Jerking in the outer and inner ear, [1]. ► Internal. [230.] ► Feeling of great
fulness in the ears, as if they were suddenly stopped, attended with a flush of heat over
the face, lasting two of three minutes, recurring frequently, especially after excitement
(fourteenth day), [66]. ►
Pain in the ear as if it were constricted internally; he hears the pulse in it, [3]. ► A tensive pressure
in the left ear, [12]. ►
Hearing. ► Sudden obstruction of the hearing,
with ringing in the ear, [6]. ►
Tinnitus aurium (after six hours and second day), [76].
► Ringing in the ears, [74];
(soon), [77]. ►
*Hissing as from boiling water, in both ears, [13].
[Digitalis has not seldom cured dullness of hearing, with noises as of boiling water in the
ears in cases where it was in other respects homœopathic. -Hahnemann.]
NOSE.
► Objective. ► Much sneezing, without coryza (first days), [6]. ► Awakened three times during
the night from a quiet sleep, by violent sneezing, which seemed to start from the stomach
and rise up as a slight nauseous sensation until it affected the nerves of sneezing (first
night), [71b]. ►
Coryza in the morning, with stoppage of the nose, [7].
[240.] ► (Constant,
very violent coryza, mostly with loss of smell, with catarrh of the larynx and trachea, and
expectoration of greenish mucus, without cough, during the whole proving), [64d]. ► Stooped coryza in the
evening and night, fluent during the day (twentieth day), [6].
► Fluent coryza with much sneezing, followed by stoppage
of the nose, [10]. ►
Epistaxis of bright blood from both nostrils (after one hour), [13]. ► Subjective. ► Pain across the root of the nose, [41]. [With vertigo. -Hughes.]
FACE.
► Objective. ► Expression of extreme prostration. ►
*Expression of the face remarkably sickly (second day), [61]. ►► *Face pale, [74]; (soon), [77], [85], etc. ► Paleness of
the face, [31]. [Not found. -Hughes.] ► Face pale, with a greenish, livid tinge (second day), [76]. [250.] ► *Face remarkably pale (after four days), [84]. ► Face livid (seventh day), [78]. ► Convulsions of
the left side of the face, [38]. ► Subjective. ►
Remarkable heat and redness in the face, lasting half an hour, [95]. ► Cheeks. ► Swelling of the cheek from the ear to the corner of the
mouth, painful to touch, and with eruption upon it, [10].
► Cramp beneath the right zygoma, on moving the lower
jaw, which on biting, became spasmodically drawn upward, [3].
► Paralytic drawing beneath the left zygoma, in front of
the ear, [4]. ►
Cramplike drawing pain in the zygoma, disappearing on pressure, [3]. ► Lips. ► Swelling of the lips, [25].
► Swelling on the inside of the lower lip, without pain, [1]. ► Chin. [260.] ► Stitches in the lower
jaw, [1].
MOUTH.
► Teeth. ► The front teeth are painful, [12].
► Pulsating toothache in the left lower eyetooth, in the
evening, in bed, lasting half an hour; this symptom was certainly caused by Digitalis, since
I have never in my life suffered from toothache, and my teeth are quite sound (third day), [61g]. ► Tongue. ► Tongue coated for several days, [1]. ► Tongue slightly coated, [81]. ► Tongue pale
(second day), [76]. ►
*Tongue white (after four days), [84]. ► Tongue coated white, in the morning, [7]. ► Tongue covered with a white
coat, and slightly swollen (second day), [65]. ► Tongue covered with a yellow coating, and considerably
swollen (third day), [65]. [270.]
► Swelling of the tongue, [25].
► He bites his tongue, [74].
► General Mouth. ►
Offensive odor from the mouth, [1]. ► Mouth moist and thick (first day), [65]. ► Dryness in the mouth, [95]. ► Dryness of the
palate and pharynx with the nausea (second day), [63].
► The mouth is very soft and rough, as if covered with
velvet, [13]. ►
Stitches in the posterior portion of the palate, and in the beginning of the throat, not
noticed on swallowing, [11]. ►
Soreness of the mouth, fauces, and œsophagus, [19].
[Ascribed by the author to the acrimony of the plant. -Hughes.] ►
Scraping, raw feeling in the palate, [12]. [280.] ► Roughness of the
palate, as after too much smoking, [3]. ► Saliva. ► Quantity of
saliva increased (fifth day), [65c]. ► Increase of the salivary and urinary secretions (after twelve
hours), [65]. ►
Accumulation of saliva, [1], [22], [51]. ► Accumulation of saliva as after vinegar, [5]. ► Accumulation of saliva,
with soreness of the mouth, tongue, and gums, for three days, [17].
► Accumulation of saliva in the mouth, with ecptysis and
great nausea on swallowing it, [2]. ► Accumulation of very sweetish saliva, [47]. ► Accumulation of watery
saliva, which is at first sweetish, but afterwards salty, in frequent attacks, 12. ► Profuse collection of saliva of a viscid consistence, [25]. [290.] ► Considerable and constant flow of saliva, [85], [92]. ► Mouth full of mucus (third day), [65]. ► Taste. ► Flat slimy taste, [13].
► Taste as of sweet almonds, after smoking, [3]. ► Bread tastes
bitter, with a good appetite, [13].
THROAT.
► Tenacious mucus
in the throat, which is loosened by coughing, [10]. ► Dryness of the throat, [41].
► Spasmodic constriction of the throat, [32]. [Not found. -Hughes.] ► Sore
pain in the throat, on swallowing, [6]. ► Sticking sore throat, even when not swallowing, [1]. ► Fauces, Pharynx, and
Œsophagus. [300.] ► Dryness and scraping in the fauces, [95]. ► A peculiar sensation in
the fauces, as if the walls of the pharynx were swollen, or as if they were constricted by
swelling of the tonsils (fourth day), [61]. ► Soreness of the fauces and posterior nares, especially
painful in the morning and evening, for several days, [6].
► Scraping in the pharynx (third day), [58]. ► Scraping and slight
burning in the pharynx, soon (second day), [58]. ► Scraping in the œsophagus, soon (second day), [62]. ► Scraping in the
œsophagus, with rawness in the air passages, the latter continuing the whole day (second
day), [61]. ► Sharp
irritation in the œsophagus, burning and scraping (fifth day), [61]. ► Swallowing. ► Difficulty of swallowing, continuing six day, [78].
STOMACH.
► Appetite.
► Slight increase of the appetite (fifth day), [63b]. [310.] ► Painful feelings of hunger (after twelve hours), [63]. ► At short
intervals, a painful feeling of hunger (eight and ninth days), [63b]. ► Longing for bitter food, [2]. ► Appetite less than
usual (seventh day), [58]. ►
Appetite slight, is immediately satisfied, [12]. ► Appetite light, [74]. ► Appetite for dinner diminished (seventh day), [64d]. ► No relish for food, and
indigestion when it was taken (ninth day), [65b]. ►► *Loss of appetite, [40].
► Loss of appetite, with clean tongue, [42]. [320.] ► Loss of appetite, with great emptiness of the stomach, [29]. ► He ate his usual
meal without appetite, thinking thereby the sensation of nausea would be relieved (after
four hours), [71b]. ►
Thirst. ►► *Thirst, [41], [74]. ► *Much thirst (second day), [65].
► *Urgent thirst, [81].
► Excessive thirst, caused by great dryness of the mouth
and pharynx; this thirst tormented him the whole night; was not quenched by copious draughts
of beer and water (after 3 grs.), [63]. ► *Extremely thirsty; desire for cold drinks (third fourth,
and fifth days), [76]. ►
Violent thirst and dryness of the mouth, [74]. ► Thirst for sour drinks, [13].
► Eructations and Hiccough. ►
Eructations, with violent hunger, after dinner, [53]. [330.] ► Eructations, without
either nausea or inclination to vomit (after 1 1/2 grain, pure), [53]. ► Sour eructations after
eating, [13]. ►
Eructations of a tasteless liquid, [10]. ► Eructations of an acid fluid, [10].
► Eructations of an acrid fluid, followed by acidity in
the mouth like vinegar, [10]. ►
Hiccough, [32]. ►
Hiccough, which does not rise quite up to the throat, six or seven paroxysms, [2]. ► Frequent hiccough, [10]. ► Very frequent
hiccough (after fourth day), [84]. ► Heartburn. ► Heartburn
towards evening (fourth day), [61]. ► Nausea and Vomiting. [340.]
►► *Nausea, [17],
[41], etc. ► Nausea
after eating, [8]. ►
Nausea in the epigastric region, with little appetite, [2].
► Nausea and slight pressure in the stomach (after 1/2
grain), [63b]. ►
Momentary nausea on going to bed (first day), [66]. ► Occasional nausea (fourteenth day), [66]. ► Continual nausea (second
day), [76]. ►
Incessant nausea for three days, [34]. ► Slight nausea, although there was a relish for food
(fourteenth and fifteenth days), [63b]. ► A great deal of nausea, with uneasiness and weight at the
stomach (nineteenth and twentieth days), [65b]. [350.] ► Much nausea, with a
pain at the stomach (second day), [65]. ► Great nausea, so that he feared he should vomit (soon after 2
grains, second day), [63]. ►
Violent nausea for some minutes in the middle of the night,
commencing with a noise in the throat, followed by suffocative convulsions, in which he
wakes in the greatest distress and suffering; he then falls into fits of general convulsions
and afterwards becomes delirious and remains ungovernable for several minutes, [74]. ► *Deathly nausea,
[50]. ► Deathly,
qualmish nausea in recurrent attacks, with extreme dejection of mind and apprehensiveness, [51]. [Not found. -Hughes.] ►
Sickness in the morning, in a female, [74]. ► Inclination to vomit, [23],
[49]. ► Retching, [59]. ► Almost convulsive
efforts to vomit, [23]. ►
*Vomiting, [28]; (after eight hours), [80], etc. [360.] ► Vomiting day and night, [23].
► Vomiting in the morning, [39], [42]. ► Vomiting in the night, [42].
► Vomiting renewed by drinking, [81]. ► Vomiting, with nausea, [41]. ► Vomiting, with
extreme nausea, [34]. ►
Vomiting and purging, with severe pain in the abdomen, [74].
► Vomiting, with retching, excessive nausea, great
anguish in the pit of the stomach, and external heat, mingled with shivering, followed by
sweat, with chilliness, for several days in succession in the afternoon about five or six, [10]. ► Long-continued
vomiting, [51]. ►
The vomiting, which came on, it night be said, without precursory signs, lasted a day and a
half; and solid food was not retained until the sixth day, [75].
[370.] ► Vomiting for
six days, not quieted by anything till death, [21]. ► Frequent vomiting, [81].
► Vomited severely (second morning), [92]. ► Vomiting severe and
incessant, [74], [85],
[92]. ► Immoderate
vomiting, with incessant nausea, coldness of the limbs, and cold sweat for two days, [16]. ► Violent vomiting
(after some hours), [84]. ►
Violent vomiting, lasting four hours, [17]. ► Violent vomiting, followed by cold sweat, [74]. ► Violent, continued
vomiting, like seasickness, with irregular, feeble pulse,
for some weeks, [74]. ►
Terrific vomiting, [32]. [Not found. -Hughes.] [380.] ► Vomiting at 5 A.M. of
a large quantity of the infusion of Digitalis (second day), [71b].
► Vomiting of food, enveloped in white, tasteless mucus,
with increased nausea and relief of the colic, [2]. ► Vomited freely; at first merely alimentary matter, then a
greenish liquid (after six hours), [76]. ► Copious vomiting, first of ingesta, then liquid, and finally
greenish-yellow (after three hours), [81]. ► He tried several times to induce vomiting by mechanical
irritation, and threw off a large quantity of saliva, mucus, and acid food (evening of first
day), [71b]. ►
Greenish vomiting, [24]. ►
Vomiting of greenish fluid (second day), [76]. ► Vomiting of green fluid like the infusion of plants, several
times, with relief of the symptoms, [23]. ► Vomiting of mucus, followed by bile without food, on rising
in the morning and several times in the course of the day (eight day, while taking), [75]. ► Vomiting twice a
large quantity of mucus (second day), [65]. [390.] ► Bilious vomiting
(soon), [77]. ►
Bilious vomiting for several days, [18]. ► Bilious vomiting and diarrhœa, [74]. ► Vomiting of green bile,
with excessive nausea, [16]. ►
Some were so violently affected as to vomit blood, [94].
► Stomach. ►
Intense gastritis, with great sinking of the vital powers, and double vision, [74]. ► All the symptoms of
violent inflammation of the gastrointestinal mucous membrane, as well as of the brain
(fourth day), [65]. ►
Difficulty of digestion (fifteenth day), [63b]. ► Digestion difficult, but no actual nausea (eight day while
taking), [75]. ►
Weak digestion for a long time, [10]. [400.] ►
Functions of the stomach considerably weakened (sixteenth day), [63b]. ► Symptoms of a disordered
stomach (tenth day), [70]. ►
Symptoms of disordered stomach did not disappear until after about twenty-three, days, [66]. ►► *Faintness or
sinking at the stomach, as if life was becoming extinct, [34]. ► Frequent sensation of
emptiness in the stomach before going to sleep, [6]. ► An unpleasant sensation in the epigastric region, [38]. ► Uneasiness at the
stomach (second day), [65]. ►
Some uneasiness in the stomach after a moderate quantity of food (eleventh day), [65b]. ► Great uneasiness
in the stomach (third day), [65]. ► *Sense of extreme anxiety, referred to the epigastrium
(after six hours), [76]. [410.]
► Heaviness in the stomach, [42]. ► Heaviness in the stomach,
alternating with weakness, [39]. ► Pains in the stomach, [23],
[30], [49]. ► Pain in epigastrium, extending to abdomen (fourth day), [76]. ► Pain in pit of
stomach, aggravated by pressure, [81]. ► Painful feeling at the stomach, analogous to hunger, although
I had taken as much food as usual (first day), [65]. ► Great pain in epigastric and umbilical regions, [85], [92]. ► Severe pain in the epigastrium soon eat in, followed by
evacuations, both by vomiting and stool, of a dark yellow color and offensive small, for six
days, [78]. ► Very
violent pain during the vomiting, which recurred frequently and produced an evacuation of a
large quantity of mucous (third day), [63]. ► Burning in the stomach, [95].
[420.] ► Burning in
the stomach, extending up the œsophagus, continuing through the day (first day), [62]. ► Burning and
pressure in the epigastric region, [26]. ► Sharp burning, extending from the stomach up the œsophagus,
in the afternoon (second day), [62]. ► Great of the stomach, with painfulness of it, [51]. [Not found. -Hughes.] ►
After eating, the stomach and upper abdomen are constantly full and distended, with
heaviness and disinclination to work, [6]. ► Feeling of fulness in the stomach, as though the breakfast
would be eructated (second day), [64]. ► Sensation of fulness in the stomach (three hours and a half
after dinner), as if the food remained in the upper part of the œsophagus, without nausea
(second day), [61d]. ►
Constriction across the epigastric region, towards the liver, [5].
► Spasmodic pain in the stomach (seventh day), [6]. ► Cramp in the
stomach, [51] [Not found. -Hughes.] [430.] ► After dinner, dull
pain and distension of the stomach; felt as if I had eaten too much (fifteenth day), [66]. ► Stomachache
(eight day, while taking), [75]. ►
Pressure in the stomach, as from a heavy weight, on straightening up the body, [3]. ► Pressure in the
stomach and copious secretion of saliva two hours after disappearance of the vertigo (second
day), [63]. ►
Frequent pressure in the stomach and upper part of the abdomen, [6]. ► Constant pressure on the
stomach, [95]. ►
Slight pressure in the epigastric region (after one hour, first day), [63]. ► Some pinching pressure in
the stomach, by paroxysms (after half an hour), [64]. ► Cutting pressure in the pit of the stomach, with nausea in
it, [4]. ► After
eating, the food presses in the pit of the stomach while sitting, not while standing, [3]. [440.] ► Slight cutting pain in the stomach (second day), [62]. ► Pinching stitches
in the pit of the stomach, unaltered by respiration and aggravated by touch only when
standing, not when sitting, [4]. ►
Soreness at the epigastrium, [74]. ► Epigastrium rather painful on pressure (after sixth day), [84]. ► *Extreme
sensitiveness in epigastric region, producing frequent deep sighs (second day), [76]. ► Suffered much
after dinner from severe bruised pain in the epigastrium and over the sternum, with feeling
of languor and indigestion, going off on taking a little weak tea (fourteenth day), [66].® 2000
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