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

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EYE.

[210.] ► Right eye became much inflamed; lids glued together, [21]. ► Purulent mucus
(gum) is constantly in the eyes; she is obliged to wipe them frequently, [1]. ► Twitching and throbbing in
the eyes, by paroxysms (after twenty days), [1]. ► The eyes are affected and watery (after seven days), [1]. ► A sensation as if
fat were in the eyes, [1]. ►
A feeling as if something painless were moving on the right eye, [11]. ► The eyes pain so that she
is obliged to close them, with a feeling as if she ought to press them in (after eight
days), [1]. ► *A
painful sensation as if a small foreign body were in the eyes
(after seventeen
days), [1]. ► Cold
feeling in the eyes (immediately), [1]. ► Burning of the eyes (second day), [11]. [220.] ► Burning in the eyes, when closing the lids, [1]. ► Burning in the eyes, on the
head, and in the throat (after seven days), [1]. ► Burning and itching in the eyes (after eight days), [1]. ► Sensation of heat
in the eyes, with heaviness in the upper lids, [1]. ► Tension in the muscles of the eyes, on turning them, and
exerting them by reading, [1]. ►
Severe pressure, day and night, as if a grain of sand were under the upper lid, [1]. ► Pressure in the eyes,
in the evening
, [1]. ►
Pressure and burning in the eyes, with lachrymation, [1].
► Pain in the eyes, as if they were pressed in, [1]. ► Sticking pain in
the right eye, as if a foreign body were between the lower lid and the ball, [11]. [230.] ► Sticking and biting in the eye, [1]. ► Severe stitch in the eye,
with had a lachrymal fistula, [1]. ► Stitches in the left eye, as from a foreign body (second
day), [11]. ►
Stitches in the eye and in the head (during menstruation), (after eight days), [1]. ► Tearing in the
left eye, [17]. ►
Biting in the eyes (after seven days), [1]. ► Soreness of eyes, [25].
► Itching in the eyes, in the evening, but
pressure in the morning, [1]. ►
Orbit.
► Swelling under the left eye, without
pain, [1]. ► Severe
stitches over the right eye, in the supraorbital nerve (evening of first day), [13]. ► Lids. [240.] ► Swelling of the lower
lid, in the morning, after rising, [1]. ► Swelling and redness of the lids, with nightly agglutination; during
the day they are full of gum, with a hot sensation and smarting pain and lachrymation

(after eleven days), [1]. ►
Redness of the margins of the lid, [1]. ► Spasmodic trembling of the lower lid, [11]. ► The left lower lid was
spasmodically moved downward towards the internal canthus, [11].
► Twitching in the upper lids, with a sensation as
if the eye were moving of itself (after eighteen days), [1].
► She was obliged to wink when reading; the eyes kept
continually closing (they were red and watery), [1]. ► Dry matter on the margins of the lids and in the canthi, [1]. ► Agglutination of the
eyes
, [1]. ►
Agglutination of the eyes, in the morning, on waking (third day), [11]. [250.] ► Lids agglutinated in various places, in the morning (second
day), [11]. ► The lids
are agglutinated with gum in the morning, the eyes, look watery
, and pain is she
looks at the light (after twenty-four hours), [1]. ► During menstruation the eyes become agglutinated, with
lachrymation, together with heaviness of the head and inability to fix the thoughts, [1]. ► Smarting pain in
the lower lid, [1]. ►
*Itching on the margins of the lids
, [1]. ► Inflammation and swelling of the left canthus and lower lid,
with sticking and throbbing pain and itching all about (after ten days), [1]. ► *Burning in the inner canthus,
with stitches near it, [1]. ►
Stitches in the inner canthi
, with alternating stitches and throbbing in the
eyes, and after the pain disappeared, frequent blowing of the nose, [1]. ► Itching in the canthi,
[1]. ► *Itching in
the right inner canthus, [1]. ►
Lachrymal Apparatus.
[260.] ► Lachrymation (second day), [11].
► Lachrymation of the right eye (seventh day), [11]. ► Profuse
lachrymation of the right eye, with burning (third day), [11].
► Lachrymation in the morning, [1]. ► Lachrymation in the evening
(after five days), [1]. ►
*Lachrymation
on writing, [1]. ► Biting water runs from the left eye, which is red, [1]. ► Conjunctiva.
► Redness of the white of the eye, [1]. ► Redness of the white of the
eye, with pressure in the eyes (after twenty days), [1].
► Some blood oozes from the white of the eye, which is
very red, but painless, [1]. ►
Ball.
[270.] ►
Stiffness of the left eyeball, in the morning after rising; is unable to move it without an
unpleasant sensation, [1]. ►
Pupil.
► Dilated pupils, [1]. ► Vision. ► Small objects seem more distinct than large ones, [1]. ► Farsightedness;
she was obliged to wear convex glasses when reading, [1].
► Farsightedness; formerly she saw both far and
near objects distinctly, now she is unable to recognize anything fine near her; cannot
thread a needle (first nine days), [1]. ► It seemed as though a shadow passed before the eyes, with
very dilated pupils, so that one side of objects was invisible;
she saw, for example, only one eye in a person, [1]. ► Dimness of vision; she felt the need of closing the eyes
without being sleepy (after six days), [1]. ► Dimness of the eyes, after getting the head cold (after six
days), [1]. ►
Sudden blindness, immediately after dinner; he was unable to see the table, even, by which
he sat; together with anxious sweat and nausea, and an appearance of a bright shiny light
before the eyes; after an hour’s sleep it disappeared, [1].
► The light blinds her, [1].
[280.] ► The sunlight
hurts the eye and causes headache, [11]. ► The glare of the candlelight is sensitive to the eyes and
head, [1]. ►
Letters dance before the eyes, [1]. ► Appearance of flickering and sparks of fire before the eyes,
in the morning, on waking, [1]. ►
Flickering before the eyes, and weakness of them, [1].
► He saw a halo around the light and the noon, [1]. ► In the dark, she
seemed to see electric sparks before the eyes, [1]. ► Black spots float before the left eye (second day), [11]. ► At times, she saw
a black spot before the left eye, which disappeared after a few minutes, [1]. ► A black point accompanied
the letters, when reading, [1]. [290.] ► During physical
exertion she often saw black spots before the eyes (after eleven days), [1]. ► Like feathers before the
eyes, [1]. ► It
seemed like a veil before the sight in both inner canthi, which disappeared with
lachrymation, [1]. ►
A darkness or blackness passes before the eyes at times, [1].
► Frightful visions appear on closing the eyes, [1].
   

EAR.

► Objective. ► Great swelling of the right ear, [1]. ► Swelling of the left ear,
with itching, [1]. ►
Swelling of the inner ear and the right side of the face, with profuse secretion of the
ear-wax, [1]. ►
*Swelling in front of the left ear, which pains like a boil when touched
, [1]. ► Profuse purulent
discharge from both ears, [19]. [300.] ► A
little water trickles from the ear (with which he hears well), while it is difficult to hear
with the other ear (which has good wax), [1]. ► Subjective. ►
Sensation of fanning before the left ear, [1]. ► Flapping in the ear, as if a piece of skin were loose in it, [1]. ► Burning pain
around the ear, [1]. ►
Heat within the ears
, like hot blood (after twenty-nine days), [1]. ► Heat streams out of the
left ear (after five days), [1]. ►
The bones behind the left ear seem swollen, and itch; the parts pain on touch as if
suppurating, [1]. ►
Cramplike pain in the ear (after seven days), [6]. ► Drawing, dull pain in the ears, [1]. ► Pressure in the ears, [1]. [310.] ► *Crushing in the ears when swallowing (first days), [1]. ► Pain in the ear,
as if something pierced through it, [1]. ► Shooting in the ear, when sneezing, [1]. ► Sticking in the left ear, [11]. ► Sticking and pain
in the right ear, [1]. ►
Stitches behind the left ear (in the morning, third day), [15].
► Stitches in the left ear and in the temples which
disappeared during rest with closed eyes, [1]. ► Tearing stitches in the right ear (after three days), [1]. ► Tearing behind the
left ear, [17]. ►
Tearing in the left ear, [17]. [320.] ► Twitching in the
right ear, with a hissing noise, every minute, and so violent that the whole body twitched
with it, [1]. ►
Pulsation in the ears
(first day), [1]. ► Crawling in the right ear (after seven days), [1]. ► Burning-itching in both
ears, [1]. ► Hearing.
► Sensitiveness in the brain to a shrill sound, [1]. ► Bad hearing (first
three days), [1]. ►
*Hard of hearing for a long time, [9]. ► When blowing the nose very hard, something comes before the
ear, so that she cannot hear well (on swallowing, it disappears), [1]. ► Noises in the left ear and
in the head, [1]. ►
Humming in the left ear, [1]. [330.]
► *Singing in the ears, followed by crackling in them,
[1]. ► Singing at
one time, at another cracking in the left ear, [1]. ► *Singing and roaring in the ears, [1]. ► Ringing before the ears, [1]. ► A cracking in the ear,
when chewing
, [1]. ►
A grunting in the ear, where swallowing, [1]. ► A loud roaring in the ears, with difficult hearing, in the
morning (second day), [1].
   

NOSE.

► Objective. ► Inflammation, redness, and swelling of the forepart of the
nose, [1]. ► *Swelling
of the nose, especially at the root, frequently appearing and disappearing
(after
six days), [1]. ►
Swelling of the right wing of the nose, with painfulness to touch, [1]. [340.] ► *Sore, ulcerated nostril, preceded by frequent sneezing, [1]. ► Pimple in the
right nostril, only painful on moving the muscles of the face and nose; the wing of the nose
is red and itches externally and internally, [1]. ► Painful pimple in the left nostril, with itching-stinging
pain, [1]. ► A red
spot on the tip of the nose, [1]. ► Twitching in the external muscles of the nose (after fourteen
days), [1]. ► *A smell
from the nose as of bad eggs, or of gunpowder
(after one hour), [5]. ► Coryza; it affects him in
every limb, [1]. ►
Severe coryza, which disappeared after two days and changed to a violent colic, lasting
several days (after seventeen days), [1]. ► Severe coryza, with headache and oppression of the chest
(tenth and sixteenth day), [1]. ►
Severe coryza, with heat in the head, and cough (after thirteen days), [1]. [350.] ► Violent coryza, for eight days (after thirty-six days), [1]. ► Violent coryza,
with pain in the lower abdomen, [9]. ► Fluent coryza, [22]. ► Fluent coryza for three days, with ulceration of the left
nostril (after thirteen days), [1]. ► Fluent coryza for with great weariness, [1]. ► Profuse fluent coryza, [1]. ► Profuse fluent coryza
(almost immediately and after four days), [1]. ► Excessive fluent coryza, followed much ineffectual sneezing, [6]. ► Stopped coryza
(first and twelfth day), [1]. ►
Severe stopped coryza, with headache (after thirty-two days), [1].
[360.] ► *Stopped coryza,
with sneezing
(first seven days), [1]. ► *Attacks of stopped coryza, with sneezing, for several
weeks, [1]. ►
Frequent sneezing, daily, [1]. ► Frequent sneezing, without coryza, [1]. ► Much sneezing, in the
morning, [1]. ►
Profuse discharge of mucus from the nose, while it is stopped (fourteenth day), [1]. ► Profuse bleeding
of the nose (after ten days), [1]. ► Nose-bleed, in the morning (seventh day), [1]. ► Severe nose-bleed, as in a
profuse venesection, almost to faintness, [9]. ► Some nose-bleed, at night (thirteenth day), [1]. [370.] ►
Blackish blood is blown from the nose, [1]. ► Stopped nose (after eighteen days), [1]. ► *Complete stoppage of the
nose, in the morning, on rising, [1]. ► Stoppage of the nose, with coryza, [1]. ► Subjective. ► The skin of the nose seems covered with oil (after
twenty-five days), [1]. ►
Dryness of the nose (after twenty-two days), [1]. ► Nose dry the whole day (first day), [11]. ► *Dry nose at night; moist
during the day, [1]. ►
Tensive pressure above the nasal bones, as if they were swollen, [11]. ► Sore, painful, swollen,
and attended erysipelatous-looking nose; it is quite hard to the touch, and attended with
much frontal headache, [22]. [380.]
► Soreness of the right nostril, [1]. ► A sore pain on the border
of the nostrils, and especially in the septum of the nose, [1].
► The almost sore nostril stings and pains on touch, [1]. ► Itching of the
nose, internally and externally (after two days), [1].
► Smell. ► The
sense of smell is very sensitive (after twenty-two days), [1].
► The smell us blunted, [1].
► *Very offensive smell in the nose (after
twenty-five days), [1].
   

FACE.

► Objective. ► *The color of the face is pale, with blue rings around
the eyes (first day), [1]. ►
*Pale, lean face, with deepseated eyes surrounded by dark rings
(fourteenth day),
[1]. ► Yellowness of
the face
, [1]. [390.]
► Frequent excessive redness and heat of the face, [1]. ► Continued puffy
redness and heat of the face, [1]. ► Swelling of the face, without heat, with needle-stitches here
and there, [1]. ►
Right side of face much swollen, and covered with pimples, [21].
► Twitching of the muscles of the face, [1]. ► Subjective. ► Pain in the face, followed by swelling of the cheeks,
whereupon the pain disappears (after ten days), [1]. ► Burning in the whole of the face, [1]. ► The face feels swollen,
especially under the eyes and around the nose, without visible swelling, [1]. ► Tearing in the bones of the
face and head, [1]. ►
Prickling in the face and neck, [1]. ► Cheeks. [400.]
► Painless swelling of the cheeks, in the morning, on
rising (second day), [1]. ►
With pinching, contractive pain, the right cheek is drawn spasmodically sideways (after
thirty days), [1]. ►
Stitches in the right cheek, very violent, the whole day (after five days), [1]. ► Tearing in the left
cheek-bones, [1]. ►
Tearing in the left cheek-bones (first day), [16]. ► Lips. ► *Swelling of the
upper lip, in the morning
, [1]. ► The lips and mouth were spasmodically drawn together, so that
she could not open them, [1]. ►
Cracked lips, with a cracked, smarting tongue (after forty-eight hours), [1]. ► The upper lip was cracked, [1]. ► Eruption in the
lower portion of the red lip (after thirty-two days), [1].
[410.] ► At first,
slight drawing in the lower lip; afterward it became as if dead, white and numb, without
feeling, as though it were thick and would hang down (for five minutes), [7]. ► Stitching-itching about the
upper and lower lip, [1]. ►
Lower Jaw.
►► *Swelling of the glands under
the lower jaw
, [1]. ►
On the left side of the lower jaw, great swelling with drawing pains (after twelve days), [1]. ► Tearing in the
lower jaw (first and second days), [16].
   

MOUTH.

► Teeth. ► Protrusion of a swollen tooth; only when she bite upon it it
pains very much, [1]. ►
Looseness of an old stump with swollen gum, with sore, sticking pain when touched, [1]. ► *Offensive smell from
the teeth
, [1]. ►
*Inclination to gnash the teeth as in a chill
, [1].
► The teeth feel too long, [1].
[420.] ► Toothache at
night, more like a pressure, or rush of blood to the teeth, beginning immediately after
lying down (first three nights), [1]. ► Pain in the teeth from heat or cold, *but
mostly caused by a current of air
, day and night, with running of much saliva
from the mouth, and sticking extending to the ears and eyes, which prevented her sleeping at
night (after eight days), [1]. ►
During menstruation, an attack of toothache, [1]. ► Boring toothache, with stitches extending to the nasal bones,
day and night, with swelling of the gum and cheek, [1].
► During menstruation, a boring in hollow teeth, with
becomes a pulsation on stooping (after sixteen days), [1].
► Dull toothache, in the evening on lying down (as soon
as she lays the head down), lasting one hour, followed by sleep, [1]. ► Drawing in the teeth, [1]. ► Drawing in the
first upper left teeth, [11]. ►
Drawing pain in the front teeth, lasting several minutes, and returning by paroxysms (after
seventeen days), [1]. ►
Immediately after menstruation, toothache
, drawing and sticking day and night,
worse if she inclined the head to the right, or to the left, or backward; it prevented sleep
or awoke her out of sleep (after fifty days), [1]. [430.] ► Boring-drawing pains
in most of the back teeth, at night, [1]. ► Gnawing toothache, worse in the evening, [1]. ► Biting pain in the teeth, [1]. ► Drawing-cutting in
all the teeth (after eleven days), [1]. ► Boring-sticking toothache, extending to the eye and ear,
excessively increased on riding in a wagon (twenty-second day), [1]. ► At first, stitches in the
last back teeth, two hours after eating, followed by boring, relieved by eating, [1]. ► Severe stitches in
a tooth, extending to the right eye and right temple; only during the day; with inclination
to touch the tooth with the tongue, which causes every time a severe stitchlike jerk in the
tooth, so that she starts, and it shakes her (first five days), [1]. ► Toothache in all the teeth
(as from fine needle stitches), much aggravated by the entrance of
cold air
; it awoke him from sleep at night, [1].
► A thrust in the teeth, as from a fist, [1]. ► Tearing in the teeth, [17]. [440.] ► Tearing in the teeth, as if the roots would be torn out
(after twenty hours), [1]. ►
Tearing in the teeth, extending to the head, to the temples, mostly at night, [1]. ► Tearing in the first left
upper back tooth, [11]. ►
Single tearings in hollow teeth, at half hour intervals, most severe on taking anything
warm; also at night, tearing through the whole cheek, [1].
► The teeth pain, as if sensitive on slight touch, [1]. ► Jerking toothache
(twenty-fourth day), [1]. ►
Jerking in the left teeth, and in the left side of the head, [1].
► Throbbing toothache in an incisor, only when eating, [1]. ► Much tickling
toothache in a hollow tooth, [1]. ►► *The teeth cannot endure the air or any coldness, [1]. [450.] ►► *Toothache if cold air or cold drinks enter the mouth,
[1]. ► The
toothache was aggravated by noise, [1]. ► Swelling of the gum of a hollow tooth, [1]. ► Swelling of the gum (and of
the jaw); especially near a broken tooth a pimple swells, from which pain extends into the
ear, [1]. ► Painful
swelling of the gum without toothache, also with swelling of the cheek, which is painful to
touch (after three days), [1]. ►
Pustules on the gum above one of the back teeth, like a dental fistula (after taking cold?),
(after twenty-four days), [1]. ►
An ulcer on the gum (after fourteen days), [1]. ► Bleeding from the gum, even at night (second and third
day), [1]. ► At
night, tearing pain in the gum, and on biting a feeling as if the teeth were loose, [1]. ► Soreness of the
gum, with painfulness in the roots of the teeth, [1]. [460.] ► Throbbing in the
swollen gum, [1]. ►
Severe pulsation in the gum, [1]. ► The gum itches, [6]. ► Tongue. ► Swelling of
one side of the tongue, which makes swallowing difficult, [1].
► Blisters on the tongue, which hinder him in eating, [1]. ► *White-coated tongue
(first days), [1]. ►
Thick, white-coated tongue, with a feeling as if it were raw and sore, [1]. ► Tongue difficult to move, [1]. ► Dryness of the
tongue, in the morning on waking (after thirteen days), [1].
► The tongue pains along the side and on its lower
surface, especially when chewing, swallowing, or spitting (seventh day), [6]. [470.] ► *Pain beneath the tongue, when swallowing, on the left side behind
the hyoid bone
, [6]. ►
Violent burning on the tongue, and in the whole of the mouth, [1].
► *Burning pain on the tip of the tongue, as from soreness;
she could take nothing warm into the mouth on account of pain
(after six hours), [1]. ► General Mouth.
► The mouth is slimy in the morning; it is not relieved
by rinsing (after twenty-four hours), [1]. ► In the mouth, swelling of the right cheek, forming a thick
nodule, with drawing-tearing pain in it, every evening, [1].
► Blisters in the mouth, which open and form ulcers
(after twelve days), (after anger?), [1]. ► Blisters in the mouth, and ulcers form from them on the inner
surface of the cheek (after taking cold?), [1]. ► Small blisters on the inner side of the cheek, where the
teeth touch it, [1]. ►
Dryness in the mouth (after one and a half hours). [5].
► Great dryness of the mouth and tongue, with a raw,
sticking sensation, [6]. [480.]
► Swelling and inflammation of the palate; the uvula is
dark-red and full of blisters, [1]. ► Sticking in the palate, [1].
► Dry sensation in the palate, which obliges him to hawk
up mucus, [1]. ►
Saliva.
► In the forenoon, the saliva
frequently collects in the mouth, with nausea (fourth day), [1].
► Sour taste of the saliva, which she continually spits
out (second day), [1]. ►
Much mucus in the mouth with a dry sensation, [6]. ► Accumulation of much mucus in the mouth, though it does
not cause spitting, [1]. ►
Taste.
► Sweet taste as of sugar in the mouth,
day and night (twelfth day), [1]. ► Flat, watery taste in the mouth; the taste of food is
unnaturally sensitive, [1]. ►
Offensive taste in the mouth
, in the morning, as of a foul stomach, [1]. [490.] ► Bitter mouth (second day), [16].
► Bitter taste, in the morning two hours after rising, [1]. ► Bitterish taste in
the back part of the throat (fifth day), [1]. ► Impure, bitter taste in the mouth, [1]. ► *Sour taste in the mouth,
[1]. ► Sour taste
in the mouth, and much tough saliva, [1]. ► Sour taste of all food, without a sour taste in the mouth
(after taking cold?), [1]. ►
Metallic taste, taste of lead in the mouth, in the morning (sixth day), [1]. ► Taste of iron in the mouth,
[1]. ► Inky taste,
in the morning on waking, [1]. [500.] ►
Everything tastes unsalted, [1]. ►
Salty taste in the mouth, and much thirst (after some hours), [1].
► Fecal taste in the mouth and fauces, [1]. ► Taste blunted, [1]. ► Speech. ► Speech is difficult, [1].
► He moves the mouth as if he would speak or scream, but
cannot utter a word, [1].

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