BELLADONNA.
EYES.
► In
General. ► Puffy
appearance about the eyes, [230]. ► Black circle around the eyes, as if one
had received a blow, [215]. ► Eyes inflamed, red, and bloodshot, even
to the iris, [215]. ► *The eyes are inflamed, and have a wild
expression, [114]. ► Inflammation of the eyes; the conjunctiva
is covered with red vessels, with shooting pain; the eyes water, [4]. ►
Inflammation of the eyes; swelling of the veins of the sclerotica, with
a tickling sensation, [1]. ► Inflammation of the eyes; the cornea is
dimmed, and the lids are swollen (after five minutes), [86]. [510.] ► The look is somewhat dim, uncertain,
unsteady, as in amaurosis, without his suffering in the least from that
disease, [115]. ► *The eyes are very animated, with fully dilated
pupils, [19]. ► Bold look, [29].
► *Had a staring expression
(for three days), [230]. ► *The eyes had a staring look, [29], [59],
[180]. ►
Staring eyes. ► Though he is blind,
the eyes are open, [31]. ► Protruding eyes (after one hour), [114]. ►►
*The eyes are projecting and sparkling, [37]. [520.] ► *Protruding, sparkling, furious eyes;
sometimes without expression, dull, and filmy, [215]. ► *The eyes
protruding, glaring, and wholly insensible to light (after
four hours), [126]. ► *Protruded eyes, with dilated pupils
(after six hours), [12]. ►► *The eyes protruding: pupils dilated;
with a staring look, [132].
► *The eyes are protruding, shining, the
pupils dilated, and completely insensible to light (after
four hours), [121]. ► The eyes protruding very much, immovable,
sometimes as if swimming in tears, eyes with dilated pupil, [129]. ►
Eyes closed (after six hours), [239].
► Eyes half closed threatening (after
one hour), [112]. ► Eyes were glittering, fixed, [233]. ►
Eyes sparkling, fixed, glittering, and prominent (second day), [227]. ►
Yellowness of the white of the eyes, [1].
[530.] ►
In the morning, the white of the eye is streaked with red, with pressive
pain, [1]. ►
Yellowish hue of the sclerotica, [215].
► Bluish sclerotica (in the sopor), [236]. ►
[The eyes are red, glittering (glassy), and turn about in the head], [65]. ►
Mucous membrane of eyes and lids deeply injected, and much swollen
(after six hours), [239]. ► Squinting, [233]. ►
Strabismus, [215]. ► [The eyes are distorted], [40] (Case 8). ►►
*The eyes become distorted, with redness and swelling of the face,
[20]. ►
*Spasms of the eyes, distorting them, [69]. [540.] ► Eyes spasmodically turned up, and showing
only the whites, [215]. ► The eyes turn spasmodically round and
round, [19]. ►
Rolling the eyeball (for three days), [230].
► The eyes, which protrude from their
sockets, roll around, [103]. ► *The eyes are in constant motion, the pupils
extremely dilated, [137].
► Eyes and hands are in constant
spasmodic motion, [19]. ► Eyes alternately fixed and very movable, [200]. ►
Sometimes the eyes rolled wildly about, at others they were immovable,
fixed on one point, [118]. ► Pressive pain over right eye, [219]. ►
The eyes tire very soon on reading, [94].
[550.] ►►
*Eye dry; motion attended with a sense of dryness and stiffness,
[178]. ►
Dryness of the eyes (the nose, the mouth, and the gullet), [75]. [The observer adds after
“eyes,” “with burning in these and in the lids.”] ► *Feeling of burning dryness in both eyes,
more violent alternately in the one or the other (after seven hours), [12]. ►
*Pain and burning in the eyes, [40]
(Case 1). ► Very frequently repeated
sensation of heat in the eyes, and as if the eyes swam in tears, [94]. ►►
*Feeling of heat in the eyes; it was
as if they were surrounded by a hot vapor, [1]. ► While
walking in the open air, a sensation of heat blowing against the eyes,
and fine sticking pains, afternoons; at the same time drowsiness (after
five minutes), [88]. ►► *Burning heat in the eyes, [215]. ►
Burning in the eyes, coupled with acute itching; both, however, cease
when the eyes are pressed upwards, [12].
► Intolerable burning and dryness of
the eyes, [215]. [560.] ►
Sensation of burning and roughness in the eyes, as from sand or pepper, [215]. ►
His eyes seemed to him to be too large, [237].
► Aching pain in eyes, [228]. ►
Drawing pain under the left eye from below upwards, [1]. ► Feeling
in the eyes as if they protruded, [13a].
► Pressure in the eyes, as of a grain
of sand, [40] (Case 5). ► A general pressure in both eyes, as if
hard spring-water had got into them, [10].
► Pressive and digging pain in the
eyes, felt even in the head, [215].
► Shooting in the eyes from within
outwards, [9]. ► Smarting in both eyes, [4]. [570.] ► Crawling, pressive pain in the eyes, as
if they were full of sand; she was obliged to rub them (after one hour),
[1], [5], [11]. ► Itching of the eyes, with lancinating
pains from one canthus to the other, [215].
► Sensitiveness of the eyes, [91]. ►
Brow, Orbits, and Lids, Lachrymation. ►
Pressive pain in the left supraorbital ridge, together with distressing
weakness of vision of the right eye on writing, whereby the letters
swam; and an oppressive sensation, as if the right eyelid hung down
paralyzed, [94]. ► Pain in the orbits; often it feels as if
the eyes were being torn out, sometimes (and more lastingly) as if they
were being pressed into the head; in addition to which there is a pain
which presses down from the forehead into the eyes, [3]. ► Darting
pain in and near the orbit of the left eye and near the vertebral
extremity of the eighth rib (after four hours), [217]. ► A
confused pressure comes in the right orbit, and alternately shifts into
the forehead and back again, [3]. ► Pressing pain in the upper part of the
socket of the eyes (after four and one-quarter hours), [217]. ►
Dilated eyelids; eyes wide open, [1].
► *The lids wide open; eyes shining and
protruding, [135]. [580.] ►
The lids are wide open, the eyes protruding far from their sockets,
rolling, squinting, and almost insensible to external impressions, [106]. ►
Both eyelids tumid, [190]. ► Swollen lids, which are ulcerated and
bleared, [215]. ► Slight swelling of the lower eyelids
(after four and one-quarter hour), [217].
► The palpebræ of the left eye were
puffy, and redder than those parts on the right side; and the upper left
lid was prolapsed, as in ptosis, [179].
► A livid, lead-colored spot upon the
eyelids contrasted horribly with the deathlike paleness of the face (in
the sopor), [236]. ► Tarsal edges of lids injected, [195]. ►
Sties on the upper lids, [215]. ► Frequent jactitation of the eyelids, [215]. ►
Switching and convulsions of the lids, [102].
[590.] ►
An incessant quivering (and blinking) of both eyelids, [10]. ►
Quivering of the left upper lid, and a slight burning in the outer
canthus, with dilated pupils, [89].
► An incessant trembling and
quivering of the right upper eyelid, continuing the whole day, and at
last becoming painful, [6]. ► Spasmodic and involuntary closure of the
lids, even when the eyes are shut, as if a bright light was shining on
them, [215]. ►
Heaviness of the lids ([195]),
especially of the right upper lid, [13].
► Heaviness of the lids, with a
feeling as if a sticky mass were lying between them and the ball, which
compels rubbing; pupils dilated; confusion of the head, and drowsiness
(after two and one-half hours), [88].
► Throbbing pain in the lower eyelid
towards the inner canthus, with great inflammatory swelling at that
point, and much lachrymation, for half and hour (after thirty-two
hours), [12]. ► The internal canthus of the left eye is
very painful, even to a slight touch, [3].
► Itching shoots in the internal
canthi, which rubbing only temporarily removes (after one hour), [14]. ►
Swelling and suppurative inflammation of the left caruncula lachrymalis,
at first with burning, afterwards with pressing pain, for three days
(after four days), [12]. [600.] ► *In the morning the lids are completely
agglutinated, [9], [12]. ►
Trembling mucus before the left eye, so that she must rub it frequently,
[90]. ►
*Lachrymation, [12]. ► Flow of tears, which seem to burn the
lids, [215]. ►
Involuntary lachrymation, [1]. ► *Lachrymation, with great photophobia; all light
is intolerable, [215]. ► *Total absence of lachrymation, and motion of
the eyes, attended with a sense of dryness and stiffness; the
conjunctival vessels fully injected, [178]. ►
Conjunctiva and Ball. ►
Conjunctival sac injected with blood, [235].
► Conjunctiva injected, bluish, [233]. ►
The conjunctiva of the ball is injected with bluish blood, [114], [112].
[610.] ►
The conjunctiva red, the lids heavy, the eyes shining, and as if
swimming in tears (after five minutes), [88].
► *The conjunctiva red, the pupil much
dilated; look staring, [105].
► *Tunica conjunctiva highly injected,
and the whole eye prominent and preternaturally brilliant, [177]. ►
The vessels of the conjunctiva and the white of the eye are congested
with blood, the pupils dilated, and the ball is generally turned upward
(after two hours), [125]. ► Eyeballs unnaturally prominent (after six
hours), [239]. ► *Eyeballs red and prominent, [197]. ►
Pimples and ulcers on the cornea, [215].
► The eyeball has a constant
trembling motion, [140]. ► *The surface of the ball became quite dry, which
caused a very disagreeable and uncomfortable sensation, which could not
be relieved by winking or continued closing of the eyes
(after one hour), [92]. ► Pain in eyeballs, [227]. [620.]
► Pain in the eyeballs, intolerance
of light, and conjunctival inflammation, followed by dilated pupils and
loss of sight permanently, [204]. ► When she closed the eyes, a pressive pain
deep in the eyeball, [13a]. ► Pupils. ►
*The optic disk greatly deepened in tint, and the retinal arteries and
veins much enlarged, the veins most markedly so (from one
drachm of extract), (after an hour and a half), [208]. ►►
*Dilated pupils (nearly every prover). ►► *Dilatation of the pupils
(after three and one-half hours), [66].
► *Next to its influence on the
circulation, the most prominent effect of the action of Belladonna
consists in dilatation of the pupils, [194].
► Pupils partially dilated, [239]. ►
Considerable dilatation of the pupils (after six hours), [239]. ►
Pupils strongly dilated, [240]. ► Great dilatation of pupils, [230], [234].
[630.] ►
Pupils remarkably dilated, [231].
► The pupils uncommonly dilated, so
that the iris becomes almost a line (after seven hours), [112], etc. ►
Extreme dilatation of the pupils, [19].
► Extreme dilatation of the pupils
(from the application of a fresh Belladonna leaf to an ulcer below the
eye), [82]. ►
The pupils extremely dilated, not at all sensitive to light, while
vision seemed to be totally lost (after four hours), [126]. ►
Dilatation of the pupils, especially the right (after five minutes), [86]. ►
The right pupil shows a very large circular dilatation, [94]. ►
Complete dilatation of the pupil of the right eye, and blindness for
three weeks (from injecting the juice of the plant into the eye).
Dazies. ► In the sopor, the pupils
paralytically dilated, [236]. ►► *Dilated, immovable pupils, [56], [233].
[640.] ►
Pupils dilated, insensible, [220].
► The pupil dilated and immovable,
the eye totally devoid of expression, [115].
► Dilatation of the pupil, with
weakness of sight (after one hour), [98].
► Dilatation of the pupils, with
presbyopia, [189]. ► Pupils strongly dilated, and contracting
imperfectly, [238]. ► Widely dilated and sometimes contracted
pupils, [215]. ► *Contracted pupils (after ten minutes), [3] (after one and a half hours), [14]. (after two and a half hours), [11]. ►
The dilated pupils become somewhat smaller after several hours, but he
right was less contracted than the left (after five minutes), [88]. ►
Very contracted pupils the whole day, which first begin to dilate in the
evening, [13a]. ► Excessive contraction of the pupils, with
headache, [1]. [650.] ►
Irides insensible to light, [231].
► Pupils insensible, and extremely
dilated (after six hours), [239]. ► Vision. ►
Vision disturbed, [231]. ► Disturbed vision an hallucinations, [240]. ►
Disturbance of the visual power and presbyopia, with dilated pupils, [83]. ►
Imperfect sight, objects appearing white to him, [180]. ► Weak
or feeble vision, [91]. ► Eyes were somewhat weak, or objects were
seen as if through glass, not obscured, [211].
► Weakness of vision increased,
without any dilatation of the pupils, [195].
► Weakness and transient loss of
sight, with widely dilated pupils, as in amaurosis, [215]. [660.]
► Great failure of sight, [230]. ►
[Great obscuration of sight], [49].
► Obscuration of sight from dilated
pupils, [20]. ► On writing, he must close the eye whose
pupil is more dilated, in order to see the lines plainly (after a
quarter of an hour), [94], [95]. ►
Obscuration of sight, with extremely dilated pupils, [40] (Case 26). ►
Obscuration of vision, so that he could not distinguish surrounding
objects; dilated pupils, [105]. ► Complete obscuration of vision, so that
she could not walk alone without running against everything; the eyes
look as if quite amaurotic, [114].
► Dulness of sight for three hours, [40] (Case 17). ►
Sight and hearing quite dull; he did not answer to loud calling (after
four hours), [121]. ► Dulness of sight, with trembling of all
the limbs, [40] (Case 1). [670.] ►
Extreme dimness of sight, [61]. ► Dimness and weakness of sight, [215]. ►
Dimness of sight or actual blindness, [21], [31],
[40], [42], [49],
[50], [66]. ► Dim
sight and blindness, with dizziness, headache, and weakness of the
limbs, [215]. ► Dimness of sight, dryness of the mouth,
and pain in the abdomen, [40].
[Not found.] ► Dimness of sight
alternating with cramps in the hands and feet, cloudiness of the head,
and lassitude of the limbs, [40]
Case 18). ► Indistinctness of vision
was most complained of when the pupils were of their natural size, and
were contracting freely under the stimulus of light, [209]. ► The
impaired vision of Belladonna is chiefly or entirely presbyopia. In two
cases, magnifying glasses enabled the subject to read with ease, [201]. ►
Longsightedness (presbyopia) as in old age, [52]. ►
Presbyopia; he can only read large type, [215].
[680.] ►
Distant objects appear clearer than near ones, with dilated pupils, [94]. ►
He can see distinctly only quite distant objects and completely
paralleled rays, as those of a star in the heavens (after injecting the
juice of Belladonna into the eyes), [83],
[84]. ►
A feeling as if he could see nothing, and yet he saw when he tried to
see something, and strained his eyes for the purpose, [13]. ► The
visual power appeared almost lost, but if the boy’s attention was
aroused he recognized the persons about him, but only for a few moments,
after which he returned to the land of dreams; he imagined he saw a
number of different objects, flies, birds, fishes, horses, soldiers,
etc., with which he was constantly busy, [118].
► Vision as if through a fog, the
lids heavy, and in the eyes a sensation as if they protruded from their
sockets, [89]. ► Darkness before the eyes, while looking,
in the morning, [106]. ► In reading, he can discern nothing in the
book but the white margin which surrounds the area of black
letter-press, [58]. ► The sight of the right eye had become
rather clearer, but that of the left eye more impaired, the upper lid
more tumefied and prolapsed, the conjunctiva more vascular, and raised
above the margin of the transparent cornea, which in a few days became
opaque and a small quantity of a puriform fluid had accumulated in the
anterior chamber of the eye, [179].
► Vision is not present in the left
eye, the lid of which is drooping, inflamed, and very painful when
touched, [181]. ► She says, “can see distinctly for a
moment only, and then my face becomes horribly distorted” (after
twenty-eight hours), [185]. [690.] ►
He sees nothing close at hand; at a distance everything appears double, [13a]. ►
Vision at times lost, at times only obscured, with excessively dilated
and quite immovable pupils, [32]. ► Loss of sight at sunset, [215]. ► While
walking in the open air, and in bright light vision was weaker than in a
room, or in the dark, [94]. ► Transient blindness, with headache, [40] (Case 17). ►
Blindness, [42], [66]. ► He
awakes blind, [31]. ► Such notable blindness was observed, that
she could not read ordinary print, [50].
► Complete blindness, [223]. [700.]
► He was quite blind, and stared
vacantly, [183]. ► The eyelids did not close when the hand
was passed suddenly before them. He had evidently lost the power of
vision, although he stared fixedly at objects as if he saw them, [190]. ►
[Blindness; the pupil of the right eye is extremely dilated and
incapable of contraction], [40]
(Case 11). ► The visual power is
altogether lost (in a state of stupor), (after four hours), [121]. ►
Vision so completely lost that even the brightest light cannot be
distinguished, [197]. ► Retina quite insensible to the influence
of strong daylight, [179]. ► (Photophobia; he avoids looking at the
light), [49]. ► Her room was darkened (light was
unendurable). [228]. ► She sees objects inverted, [43]. ► *Diplopia
(after six hours), [239]. [710.] ►
*Double vision, [220], [222], [227].
► Objects are seen double, [43], [76],
[185]. ►
Objects appeared double, and they seemed to revolve and run backwards, [190]. ►
*Objects appear double, upside down, or crooked, [215]. ►
*Every object in the room, both real and spectral, had a double, or at
least a dim outline, owing to the extreme dilatation of the pupils,
[196]. ►
[Objects are seen manifold and dark], [65].
► The sight (e.
g., of letters) is multiplied, not clear, and irregular
(after one hour), [98]. ► Reading by lamplight was difficult; the
lines jumped hither and thither, [99].
► Letters swim while reading, [195]. ►
Evenings, in bed, on reading as usual, the letters flowed one into the
other, so that it was utterly imnpossible for him to read, [89]. [720.]
► Objects seem to tremble and
scintillate, as if viewed through a mist, [215].
► Illusions of vision; saw everything
confused, as if through a fog or smoke, [236].
► After vertigo came on the affection
of the eyesight, every object growing dim, as though a cloud were
between the eye and it; sometimes objects appeared double, and passed
before the eye with an undulating motion. I observed that by a strong
effort of the will a concentration of the nervous power, this paralysis
of the retina (?) might for a moment be combated, but only to return
with greater severity when the mental effort had been succeeded by its
corresponding relaxation. The pupils were immovably dilated, [178]. ►
Without glasses he could see the letters larger than usual; he saw
sharper with the left eye than with the right, which was not the case in
the normal state, [89]. ► On seeing himself in a glass, he asserted
that he squinted badly, and that both eyeballs were turned towards the
nose, [239]. ►
On reading, the letters shone, partly like blue size, and trembled, [21]. ►►
*Everything he looks at seems red, [215]. ►► *A
large halo appears round the flame of the candle, party-colored, the red
predominating; at times the light seems as if broken up into rays,
[12]. ►
*The flame of a candle appears encircled by a colored halo,
or stretches out and is lost in long rays, [215]. ► All
colors appear to him reversed; the black stove seems white, red objects
of a pale yellow, the burning light brilliant in all colors, etc, [129]. [730.]
► Mist before the eyes, [21]. ►►
*He sees sparks before the eyes, [81]. ► *Large
bright sparks before the eyes, [1].
► [*He sees sparks, as of electricity,
before the eyes, especially on moving them], [81]. ►
*Occasional flashes of light before the eyes, [190]. ► When
laying her hand upon her swollen cheek she sees flames before her eyes,
and the air seems to her like a fog-mist, [9].
► She sees in the ceiling of the room
a white star as large as a plate; and across it, from left to right,
light, silvery clouds seem passing; oftentimes and in various places, [9]. ►
Chromopsia (after six hours), [239].
► Muscæ volitantes, flames and
sparks before the eyes, [215]. ► In the morning on going out (about 10 1/2
A.M.), black points and stripes before the eyes, which soon disappear
and soon return (no trace of them in the afternoon), [211]. [740.]
► Vision confused in a high degree;
they constantly endeavored to grasp fancied surrounding objects, as
persons, blades of grass, handles, etc., [114].
► Visions; he sees only dark-colored
animals, black cats, etc., [125]. ► He stared now straight before him, now
around, and screamed out that he saw rats, mice, dogs, cats, and large
black animals (always only dark
objects) on the walls, furniture, etc. These dark visions lasted four
hours. About this time the body, especially the cold extremities, began
to grow warm, his face became lively and red, the eyes vivacious,
bright, expressive of joy and astonishment; the lips dry; speech was
short, but articulation distinct; his answers to questions were hasty,
laconic, and dry. It was very difficult to draw his attention for a
moment from his yet all-brilliant visions; he was enraptured, appeared
happy, and content; his limbs were in constant motion; he groped with
his hands after colored butterflies, shining insects, etc., which he
fancied he saw on the physician’s clothes, [123]. ►
Nothing could rid my eyes of the most disgusting spectral cockroaches,
swarming all over the room, [196].® 2000
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