KALI BICHROMICUM.
EYE.
►
Objective. ► Eyes
glistening, sunken, with dark rings about them (third day), [29b]. ►
Several bright red spots and streaks in the white of the left eye, which
change their form and place after a time and disappear in a few days
(four days after last dose), [36].
► White of eyes became yellow, some
hours before death, [42]. ► White of the eye dirty yellow,
discolored, congested, dotted here and there with yellowish-brown spots,
of the size of a pin’s head, especially in the left eye, which also
showed a pale brown spot near the inner margin of the cornea, which
looked like a resolving ecchymosis; the eyes were hot and he was
frequently obliged to rub them (seventh day), [28]. [160.] ► *Inflammation of the eyes (in some
cases), [43]. ► *Inflammation of the eyes, with yellow discharge
and agglutination, in the morning, [22]. ►
Violent inflammation and loss of vision (from the solution of chrome
getting into the eye), [22]. ► *Eyes inflamed, with adherence of lids in the
morning, and yellow discharge, [22].
► Ophthalmia; it commenced with
itching for several days, followed by pain and heat in the eyes, and
agglutination of the lids; the conjunctiva was red, [22]. ►
Leucoma on left cornea, [22]. ► *Pustule on left cornea, with surrounding
indolent inflammation, attended with pricking pain, [22]. ►
Eyes swelled up and heavy in morning, [22].
► Eyes sunken, [32]. ►
Accumulation of mucus in the canthi (one hundred and thirty-fourth day),
[35]. ►
Subjective. [170.] ► Burning in the eyes, in the evening, [25]. ►
*Itching and burning in both eyes, lachrymation and photophobia
(twenty-second day), [26]. ► Pains in the eyes for the first
fortnight, [22]. ► Heaviness and soreness of the eyes, [22]. ►
Obtuse heavy pain above the eyes, aggravated by cold air and motion
(first hour after second dose), [2].
► Dull, heavy pain over the left eye,
in the afternoon (second day), [5].
► *Heat in the eyes, [22]. ►
*Heat and pressure in the eyes (ninth day), [35]. ► *Burning
in the eyes, [25], [33]. ►
Burning in the eyes and margins of the lids (one hundred and
twenty-first day), [35]. [180.] ►
Burning in the eyes, face and upper part of the body, glowing as from an
internal heat, though there was at the same time internally a violent
sensation of chilliness, which lasted through the afternoon nap (soon
after 80 drops, first day), [31b].
► Burning in the eyes, in the
morning, with some redness of the left eye towards the outer canthus
(one hundred and twenty-third day), [35].
► Burning in the eyes, especially in
the margins of the lids, in the morning on waking (one hundred and
thirty-seventh day), [35]. ► Burning in the eyes, after rising in the
morning; smoking especially caused burning and lachrymation, which was
not usually the case (forty-second day), [35].
► On fixing the eyes on an object
they became hot and began to burn and the vision vanished, so that
objects seemed dim and undefined (ninth day), [28]. ►
Burning in the eyes and lids, after dinner (eighty-second day), [35]. ►
Burning of the eyes, with running of water from the nose, though on
waking the nose was quite dry (seventy-ninth day), [35]. ►
Burning in the eyes, with a disagreeable sensation in the nose, which
cannot be described; although I am accustomed to smoke, yet every
inspiration through the nose caused a very sickening sensation like
sulphuretted hydrogen (ninety-fifth day), [35].
► Burning and pressure in the eyes
(thirty-fourth day), [35]. ► Burning and biting in the eyes, [25]. [190.]
► Burning in the left eye, [25]. ►
Burning in the right eye and inner surface of the upper lid, after
dinner (eighty-seventh day), [35].
► Burning in the inner canthus of the
right eye on waking, soon afterwards extending over the whole margin of
the lower lid, aggravated by writing, disappearing after ceasing to
write, [25]. ►
A burning spot as large as the head of a pin in the albuginea of the
right eye, not far from the outer margin of the cornea (fifty-ninth
day), [35]. ►
Great burning in the eyes, especially in the margins of the lids, which
are also sensitive on motion and touch, in the evening (sixty-third
day), [35]. ►
Great burning and pressure in the eyes, in the open air, in the evening,
[35]. ►
Violent burning in the eyes, in the evening (twenty-sixth day), [35]. ►
Violent burning in the left eye, in the evening, with lachrymation (one
hundred and thirty-fifth day), [35].
► Violent burning and a sensation of
increased warmth in the right eye, towards evening; also burning in the
skin about the eye, by paroxysms (fifty-ninth day), [35]. ►
Burning pain in external angle of left eye (after fourth dose), [2]. [200.] ►
The eyes ache constantly, with pressure in them, especially if she looks
long at any object, when her vision completely disappears, so that after
looking for a few moments at anything she is obliged to close the eyes
and let them rest, though there is no change in the appearance of the
eyes (fifth day), [30]. ► Pressure and burning in the eyes, a
sensation as if sharp sand were in them (fifty-ninth day), [35]. ►
Pressive pain in right eye (fifth day), [2].
► Biting and lachrymation frequently
returned after the proving, [26]. ► Sensitiveness of the eyes, [35]. ►
Sensitiveness of the eyes; the margins of the lids are red; a yellow
purulent substance had collected over night in the inner canthus
(ninety-sixth day), [35]. ► Eyes tender, [22]. ►
Smarting in eyes, worse in open air (after first dose), [2]. ►
Smarting and watering of the eyes (fourth day), [2]. ►
Smarting of the external canthus, [1].
[210.] ►
Itching in both eyes, obliging him to rub them (third day), [26]. ►
Itching and biting in the eyes, lasting the whole day (twenty-fourth
day), [26]. ►
Itching and pain in eyes like sand in them, worse in the evening and
night (second week), [22]. ► Itching and lachrymation of the eyes
(thirty-third day), [26]. ► Itching in the canthi, [28]. ►
Violent itching in both eyes, so that he was obliged to rub them, with
lachrymation at noon (seventeenth day), [26].
► Transient but violent stitches in
quick succession in the right eye (third day), [26]. ► Orbit.
► Pressure about the orbits, lasting
an hour (one hundred and thirtieth day), [35].
► *Violent shooting pains from the root
of the nose along the left orbital arch to the external angle of the eye
exactly, with dimness of sight like a scale on the eye;
begins in the morning and increases till noon, goes away towards the
evening lasted three weeks, [15]. ► Lids. ►
Redness and swelling of the upper eyelids (after merely passing through
the works during the boiling), [22].
[220.] ►
Redness of the margins of the lids, towards the external canthi (one
hundredth day), [35]. ► *Margins of the lids very red, the
conjunctiva of the lids and balls red (twenty-fourth day), [26]. ►
Eyelids inflamed and much swollen, [22].
► Slight (œdematous) swelling of
both right lids, in the morning on waking, lasting till evening, [25]. ►
Eyelids slightly granular, [22]. ► Agglutination of the eyes, on waking in
morning, [26], [35]. ►
Agglutination of the lids, in the morning on waking, the white of the
eye was reddish-yellow, with much itching and rubbing in the eyes; the
eyes were weak and drawn back in their orbits (fourth day), [30]. ►
Eyes agglutinated in the morning and very sensitive to sunlight
(twenty-fourth day), [26]. ► Eyes agglutinated in the morning, with
lachrymation and photophobia, with itching and burning in the eyes
(twenty-fifth day), [26]. ► Eyes agglutinated on waking in the
morning; after opening them there was considerable and persistent
lachrymation (eighteenth day), [26].
[230.] ►
Twitching and jerking in the right eyelid while reading, and for a short
time afterwards, [25]. ► Dry mucus in the eyelashes, in the
morning (ninety-ninth day), [35]. ► Dryness of the lids (sixth day), [28]. ►
Dryness and burning in the lids, in the morning (twenty-eighth day), [35]. ►
Roughness in the margins of the lids, so that when winking it caused a
rubbing sensation against the eyeball (twenty-first day), [35]. ► The
inner surface of the lids felt thickened and rough (thirty-seventh day),
[35]. ►
Heaviness of the upper lids, on waking in the morning, so that they must
be raised by force, disappearing after half an hour (sixty-fifth day), [35]. ►
Burning in the lids (forty-seventh day), [35].
► Burning in the margins of the lids,
[35]. ►
Burning in the margins of the lids, in the morning, [35]. [240.] ► Burning in the margins of the lids,
immediately after rising, in the morning, [35].
► Burning in the margins of the lids,
in the afternoon (twenty-eighth day), [35].
► Burning in the margins of the lids,
especially towards the external canthus (fifty-fifth day), [35]. ►
Burning in the margins of the lids, with frequent running of water from
the nose, in the evening (one hundred and seventh days), [35]. ►
Burning in the margins of both lower lids, aggravated by writing, [25]. ►
Burning on the inner surface of the eyelids, [35]. ►
Violent burning in the lids and surface of the eyeball; this continued
more or less severely during the whole day, with pressure in both
eyeballs (one hundred and thirty-seventh day), [35]. ►
Violent burning in the margins of the lids, at noon (thirty-eighth day),
[35]. ►
Burning pain in the margin of the right lower lid (one hundred and tenth
day), [35]. ►
Eyelids painful to touch, with agglutination of the eyes, in the
morning, and lachrymation (nineteenth day), [26]. [250.] ► Feeling of rawness in the margins of the
lids (one hundred and third day), [35].
► Quite violent itching and burning
in the margins of the lids, which even seemed to be raw, so that on
moving them there was a sensation as though they rubbed against the
eyeball, in the forenoon (one hundredth day), [35]. ►
Conjunctiva. ► *Redness of
conjunctiva with lachrymation, [22].
► Redness of the conjunctiva, with
heat and an uneasy sensation as when opened under water, [1]. ► Slight
redness of the whole conjunctiva (sixth day), [28]. ►
Injection of the vessels of the conjunctiva of both eyes, especially of
the right (one hundred and eleventh day), [35].
► *Conjunctiva oculi injected,
[22]. ►
*Conjunctiva both of bulb and lids injected (second week), [22]. ►
*Appearance of small white pustules in the conjunctiva of
left eye towards the inner canthus; these “pustules” are small
white granular elevations surrounded with a good deal of redness, [22]. ►
Lachrymal Apparatus. ►
Moisture in the eyes (seventh day), [28].
[260.] ►
Eyes water, [22]. ► The usual running of the eyes and nose
from exposure to the open air when the least cold, [22]. ►
Increased secretion of tears (after five or six days), [48]. ►
*Lachrymation, [22]. ► Lachrymation in the morning, at home, [22]. ►
*Lachrymation, with burning pain in the eyes (first day), [31a]. ►
Lachrymation, itching, and burning in the eyes, especially on the
margins of the upper lids; the conjunctiva of the ball and lid was red
and injected with large red vessels; in the left eye, which was affected
more than the right, during the whole proving, there was a sensation for
a quarter of an hour as though something had got into it, which
gradually disappeared (thirty-second day), [26]. ►
Profuse lachrymation of both eyes, with transient stitches in the lids;
the conjunctiva of the lids is much redder than usual, with several
injected vessels of the conjunctiva of the balls (sixth day), [26]. ►
Soreness in the caruncula (fifth day), [2].
► Ball. ►
Violent burning and pressure on the surface of the right eyeball, in the
forenoon (ninety-ninth day), [35].
[270.] ►
Pressive pain in the right eyeball (first day), [34]. ►
Pressive pain in left eyeball (after fourth dose), [2]. ►
Eyeballs tender when rubbed, especially left, [38]. ► Pupil.
► Pupils dilated, [45]. ► Pupils
dilated and fixed, [52]. ► Vision. ►
Eyesight weak, [22]; as if
obscured (sixth day), [28]. ► Amaurotic weakness of vision (ninth day),
[28]. ►
Dimness of vision (eighth day), [28];
in evening in walking, [22]. ► Sight confused and dim, [22]. ► A
sudden feeling as though a black plate were placed before both eyes at
the distance of about ten paces, so that I was unable to recognize any
object at that distance; as I was looking through a closed window I
thought that might be the cause of the difficulty, but on turning around
and speaking with a person standing about two paces from me, I was
unable to recognize him, the vision was so obscured; this lasted about
ten minutes, when the obscuration gave way to a sensation as though a
veil were hanging before the eyes and were drawn upwards and downwards;
this, however, soon disappeared and the former condition returned; I
washed the eyes in cool water, hoping thereby to find relief, especially
as the eyes had already begun to be painful, but it was of no avail; it
lasted about a quarter of an hour, when the obscuration disappeared and
a kind of vertigo set in (quite similar to that which follows too large
an amount of alcoholic stimulants); this lasted two or three minutes,
when it disappeared giving place to a violent headache, especially in
the frontal and orbital regions, at times associated with sticking pains
in the eyes and tearing in the ears; the whole attack lasted till 9 P.M.
(after six daily doses), [24b]. [280.] ►
*Photophobia (eighteenth day); with lachrymation and itching in the
eyes, and redness and burning in the margins of the lids (twenty-third
day); increasing in the afternoon to such a degree that he was only able
to open the eyes and endure the sunlight, with twisting and jerking of
the lids, associated with profuse lachrymation and burning in the eyes;
this excessive photophobia disappeared towards evening, and the eyes
became quite insensible to the light (twenty-fourth day), [26]. ► Sees
the point of pen double, one point by the side of the other, [38]. ►
Great flickering before the eyes, at noon; vision of spots, sparks and
colors, so that I was scarcely able to write; disappearing after half an
hour, at noon (ninety-eighth day), [35].
EAR.
►
Objective. ► Slightly
inflamed swelling at the entrance of the left meatus auditorius, which
was more annoying than painful, and gradually disappeared (after four
days), [36]. ► Subjective. ►
Stoppage of the right ear, and burning in the concha (fifty-seventh
day), [35]. ►
Earache in evening (sixth day), [8].
► Drawing behind the right ear (sixth
day), [35]. ►
Drawing behind the left ear and on the left side of the lower jaw;
motion of the head is not quite free; the cervical muscles of the left
side seem to be tense (twenty-third day), [35].
► A slow stitch like a drawing
through the external meatus of the right ear; followed later by roaring
in the whole of the head, as if a dull noise at a distance was heard
(eighty-fourth day), [35]. ► Pressure in the right ear in the evening
(one hundred and sixth day), [35].
[290.] ►
Pressing-out feeling in the left mastoid process (second day), [28]. ►
Sticking in the ears, [24c]. ► Stitches in the ear (one hundred and
ninth day), [35]. ► Stitches in the left ear and outer
portion of the neck, on the left side (thirty-second day), [26]. ►
Stitches in the left ear and parotid gland (twenty-fifth day), [26]. ►
Stitches within the right ear, in the forenoon (sixty-first day), [35]. ►
Transient acute stitch in the right ear (ninety-seventh day), [35]. ►
Some transient but violent stitches in the left ear (nineteenth day), [26]. ►
Violent stitches in the left ear, extending into the palate and the same
side of the head and outer cervical region, which latter was also
painful to touch, and glands swollen (thirty-first day), [26]. ► Dull
stitches through the external meatus, extending into the right ear,
twice repeated, in the afternoon, while walking (one hundred and seventh
day), [35]. [300.] ► Tearing pain in the ears, [24b]. ► Hearing.
► Singing in the ears, [22]. ►
Roaring in the head, [35]. ► Roaring and ringing in the ears, [24b]. ►
Roaring in the ears, lasting for two hours, soon; after the third dose
on the second day roaring in the ears reappeared, and lasted without
intermission the whole of that day and succeeding one, [36a].® 2000
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