GELSEMIUM.
EYE.
►
Objective. ► Dull eyes, in
the forenoon (eleventh day), [7]. ► Eyes transiently bloodshot (third day), [6]. ►
Strabismus, and constant inclination to squint (one case), [10]. ►
Eyes fixed, and inability to raise the eyelids (after five hours), [25]. ►
Eyes much inflamed and weak, with great flow of tears at intervals, [3]. ►
Subjective. ► Dryness of
the eyes, [5]. ► *Heaviness of the eyes, as after
night-watching, [11]. ► Pains deep in the left eye, extending
from above downwards (first day); more violent (third day), [1]. [110.]
► Burning of the eyes, as if they
were too dry, in the forenoon (eleventh day), [7]. ► Burning
in the eyes, with weakness of sight and heaviness in the forehead (fifth
day), [7]. ►
The eyes felt quite sore; it is as if some foreign body were irritating
the conjunctive, in the evening (third day), [2]. ► The
eyes quite sore at night; not much pain, but merely soreness, with
sensitiveness to light and lachrymation (third night), [2]. ► Brow and
Orbit. ► Drawing over the
eyes (four minutes after three drops), [14].
► Drawing over the right eye (eight
minutes after five drops), [17]. ► Pain in the orbits, sometimes excessive, [5]. ►
Dull full feeling (attended with some aching) in the whole of the
orbits, [1]. ►
Bruised pain above and back of the orbits, [5]. ► Lids.
►► *Drooping of the eyelids,
[29]. [120.]
► *Eyelids partially closed and
motionless, [26]. ► *Eyelids half closed, with apparent inability to
move them, [23]. ► *Eyes close in spite of him, on looking steadily
at anything, [5]. ► *Difficulty in opening the eyes, or in keeping
them open, [5]. ► Heaviness and congestion of the lids, [5]. ►
*Great heaviness of the lids, [5].
► Burning sensation around the inner
canthus of the right eye, [9]. ► Eyelids are as it were puffed and
swollen, and have also the appearance of being so, [15]. ► A
stitch traversing the right eyelids vertically (fifteen minutes after
first dose, first day), [6]. ► Lachrymal Apparatus. ► Eyes suffused (after second dose, fifth
day), [4]. ► Ball. [130.]
► No spasmodic movements except the
eyeballs, which kept up a continual twitching motion while the effects
of the medicine lasted, [29]. ► Sharp stitches through the left eyeball,
from within outward, [9]. ► Pupil. ►
*Dilated pupils, [21], [34]. ►
Pupils dilated, but corresponding to the different degrees of light;
afterwards widely dilated, [23]. ► Pupils dilated, not responding to the
light, and could be touched without producing any contraction of the
lids (after three hours), [28]. ► Pupils expanded and insensible to light
(after five hours), [25]. ► Dilatation of the pupils, amaurosis,
blindness, dimness of sight, [11].
► Pupils moderately dilated, [26]. ►
Vision. ► Slight affection
of sight, during the forenoon (eighth day), [6]. ► Till 4
P.M. the disturbance of sight was great (seventh day), [6]. [140.] ► *Dimness of vision (part of Ss. 74
and 257), [25]. ►► Dimness of sight and vertigo, [10]. ►
Dimness of sight alleviated on profuse emission of watery urine, [10]. ►
Distant objects seemed indistinct as I rode or walked, and one evening I
could read but with difficulty (these symptoms are characteristic, as
the sight is perfectly good, and I have never had anything the matter
with my eyes), [12]. ► Misty or glimmering appearance before the
eyes, [5]. ►► *Smoky appearance before the eyes, with
pain above them (third day), [1].
► She complained of being partially
blind, while eating a hearty dinner (after half an hour); this symptom
rapidly increased, and in a short time she could scarcely see at all, [17]. ►
*Nearly blind; control over the upper eyelid was almost entirely lost,
[23]. ►
Blind, [24]. ► *Total blindness very soon after the dose, with
violent dizziness (third day), [1].
[150.] ►
Became perfectly blind, eyes set, etc., [27].
► She could not see any one in the
room, although persons stood close by the bed; the eyes were wide open;
pupils dilated, [19]. ► *He said, “I cannot see you;”
but his eyes were wide open, with dilated pupils (after ten minutes), [34]. ►
Confusion of sight (one hour after first dose, third day), [4]. ►
Slight more or less confused all day (fifth day), [6]. ► At 4
P.M. took a dessertspoonful of red wine; directly after, for the first
time to-day, a return of the confusion of sight, lasting an hour only,
but so extreme that some one must suspect inebriation (fourth day), [6]. ►
After the stool in the morning, a marked renewal of the confusion of
sight, with heavy looking eyes; found this
symptom much less when holding a finger vertically beyond the nose, also
when either eye is closed (third day), [6]. ► The
confusion of sight much increased in the evening (sixth day), [6]. ►
Confusion of sight diminished, in the evening (third day), [6]. ►
Confused vision, especially of distant objects (following vertiginous
sensations after breakfast), when turning the eyes the sight is tardy in
following the movement, things for several seconds seem to be blurred,
the eye remains unfixed in its, new direction, yet no sensation of gauze
or film, [This symptoms attended a tardy convalescence from a fever (not
treated by Gelsemium, except the first day), last year, continuing a
week; relieved by Nux vom, [3], in
part, and finally cured by Acon, [3]]
it is accompanied with a disposition to partially close the eyes, as if
to steady the eyeballs by the pressure of the orbicularis palpebrarum
muscles; the visual confusion might be compared to that produced by
alcohol, and gradually wore off by night (second day), [6]. [160.] ► *Objects appeared double; by degrees
she grew completely blind, [26]. ► Things seem double on raising the head
from a stooping position, or on looking sideways, but not when looking
directly at them (one case), [5]. ► *Diplopia, which I could control by an effort of
will, [12]. ► *Diplopia when inclining the head towards either
side, but vision single when holding the head erect (in one
case), [5].
EAR.
►
Rush of blood into the ears, [10].
► *The pains which ascend from the back
to the occiput often affect the ears, [10]. ► Heavy
feeling in the ears (a quarter of an hour after third dose), [34]. ►
Digging in the right ear (part of S. 19), [6].
► Near noon, while sitting, a stitch
in the external auditory meatus (eighth day), [6]. ► Hearing.
► Sudden and temporary loss of
hearing, [10]. [170.] ►
Humming in the ears (after eighteen minutes), [14].
NOSE.
►
Objective. ► Sneezing and
dull headache, at 9.30 P.M. (sixth day), [6].
► Sneezing, followed by tingling and
a sense of fulness of the nose, at 11.30 P.M. (first day), [6]. ►
Watery discharge from the nose (in a few cases), [5]. ► Mucus
accumulates in the nose and upper part of the trachea; the mucus slips
into the trachea while talking, which keeps up a hacking cough, [9]. ►
Bloody mucus in the nose (eleventh day), [6].
► While sewing, lively action, as of
a worm or a fish, in the region of the nose, at 6 P.M. (twelfth day), [7]. ►
Pain extending from the bridge of the nose to the eye (third day), [1]. ►
Tingling in the nares (eleventh day), [6].
FACE.
►
Objective. ► Looked
strange, staggered, and feel (after half an hour), [29]. [180.] ► *Heavy besotted appearance of the face,
[13]. ►
Countenance miserable, sunk, grayish-yellow, with dull dusky eyes
(second day), [7]. ► *Face flushed and hot to touch (after
second dose, fifth day), [4]. ► Yellow color of the face, [5]. ►
Complexion yellow, also the eyes, [1].
► Countenance of livid paleness, [26]. ►
Face somewhat congested, [23]. ► The muscles of the face seem to contract,
especially the orbicularis oris, somewhat impeding breathing, [11]. ►
Subjective. ► Numbness of
the face, [11]. ► Cheeks. ►
Whenever she was roused from her sleepiness she felt burning in the
zygomatic region and eyes (afternoon), (seventh day), [7]. [190.] ► Burning at the left zygoma and in both
eyes, more in the left one (fifth day), with red swelling of the zygoma,
a little before 2 P.M. (sixth day), [7].
► Burning in the left zygoma, with
swelling; and in both eyes, more in the left; later, also in the right
zygoma at 1 P.M. (seventh day), [7].
► Burning in the left zygoma, then in
the right, drawing down to a gland at the anterior right side of the
neck, where it swells, and pains as if an ulcer were forming, in the
afternoon (eighth day), [7]. [At
this very spot she had twenty-two years ago a glandular abscess, which
opened internally.] ► Lips. ► Pale lips, in the forenoon (eleventh
day), [7]. ►
Lips dry and heated, at 11.30 P.M. (seventh day), [6]. ► Chin.
► Lower jaw drooping, [23]; (after three hours), [28]. ► Lower
jaw drooping, leaving the mouth wide open, [26]. ► His
lower jaw began wagging sideways; he
had no control over it, [27]. ► Sensation of stiffness in the muscles of
the jaw, [13].
MOUTH.
►
Teeth. ► Pain in the last
back tooth on the right side up towards the temple (first day), [1]. [200.] ►
Stinging and burning in the left lower hollow back tooth (otherwise her
teeth are good, of the ivory variety) through the lower jaw, as far as
the left ear and left zygoma, at 6 P.M.; relieved by Chamom. 2/30 in
watery solution (twelfth day), [7].
► Tongue. ► *Thickly coated tongue, [11]. ►
Tongue coated yellow (first day), [1].
► Light whitish coating on the tongue
(seventh day), [6]. ► *Yellowish white fur on tongue (third
day), [2]. ►
Yellowish-white coating of the tongue, with fetid breath, [11]. ► Tongue
red, inflamed in the middle, [30].
►► *Numbness of the tongue,
[11]. ►
I so lost the use of my tongue that I was unable to utter an
intelligible expression, and my tongue felt like some foreign body
clogging my mouth, [16]. ► *His tongue, to use his own expression,
was so thick he could hardly speak, [23]. [210.]
► *His tongue felt very thick; he could
not articulate, [27]. ► Burning upon the tongue immediately,
which after a few minutes went over the whole mouth and throat, feeling
hot like an oven, and thence through the œsophagus into the stomach and
abdomen, when the same burning pain passed around in all the intestines;
simultaneously with the descent of the burning pain into the œsophagus,
burning in the chest came on, following soon by a stitch in the anterior
left lower side of the chest, going through the chest into the left
shoulder-blade, and accompanied by weakness and a fluttering and beating
of the heart, irregular as to quantity and quality; these symptoms
lasted about three hours (first day), [7].
► Peculiar sense of constriction at
base of tongue (twenty minutes after third dose), [34]. ► Mouth.
► Clammy, feverish feeling and taste,
[5]. ►
Astringent sensation in the mouth, [11].
► Dryness of the mouth, [11]. ►
Slight dryness in the mouth and throat, with disposition to swallow
frequently; the dryness is like that produced by eating salt bacon,
but no bacon has been eaten to-day, [9].
► Saliva. ► Several times during the day he found the
saliva colored yellowish, as if by blood (seventh day), [6]. ► During
the fits, sanguineous brown mucus ran out of her mouth, [39]. ► Taste.
► Mawkish taste in the mouth, [5], [11].
[220.] ►
All the latter part of the day, bad, foul, spoiled taste and breath,
with a frequent need to rinse the mouth or spit (seventh day), [6]. ►
Bitter taste, [11]. ► Slimy, disagreeable, bitter taste in the
mouth, [15]. ►
Speech somewhat affected, [22]. ► After the return of consciousness,
intelligible speech was at first only possible when the jaws were
supported. The tongue was stiff and the voice thick and guttural, [26]. ►
Ineffectual efforts to articulate, [10].
► Inability to speak or move, [21].
THROAT.
►
Hawking up of bloody matter, [30].
► The burning at times seemed
intolerable, and swallowing was painful, [30].
► Sore feeling during deglutition,
about the root of the tongue and larynx, with accumulation of mucus in
the upper part of the trachea, causing frequent clearing of the throat, [9]. [230.]
► Dryness and burning in the throat, [30]. ►
Fauces and Œsophagus. ►
Painful dryness of the fauces, [11].
► While sitting at studies a rising
of tasteless semi-solid matters in the œsophagus, with flatus and a
sense of something lodged therein, slightly painful, at 12.30 (one hour
after 9 drops, fifth night), [6]. ► Violent burning in the gullet from the
mouth quite down to the stomach, [30].
► *Spasmodic sensations and cramplike
pains in the gullet, [30].
► *Tried to swallow but could not,
[27]. ►
*Owing to paralysis of the muscles of the throat the patient could not
swallow when the physician was called, [20].
► External Throat. ► *Pains in the neck, which confine themselves to
the upper part of the sterno-cleido-mastoideus directly back of the
parotid glands (first day), [1].
STOMACH.
►
Appetite. ► Great hunger
(one case), [5]. ► After a moderate meal, experienced a
sudden satiety (ninth day), [6]. [240.] ►
Want of appetite in the afternoon (seventh day), [7]. ►
Alternate increase and loss of appetite, [11].
► Thirst. ► Thirst during the sweat, [5]. ► Eructations
and Hiccough. ►
Eructations, [5]. ► Eructations of wind and bland fluid, at
11.30 P.M. (first day), [6]. ► Sour eructations, [11]. ►
Hiccough, [5]. ► Heartburn. ►
At noon, slight heartburn and pain at the cardia, whilst riding (first
day), [6]. ► Nausea and Vomiting. ► Nausea, [5].
► Nausea and vomiting, [21]. [250.] ► Slight nausea, [11]. ►
Considerable nausea (after three-quarters of an hour), [17]. ► More
or less nausea, with headache, [5].
► Stomach. ► Feeling of emptiness and weakness of the
stomach and bowels, [5]. ► A sensation as of something wanting in
the epigastric region (third day), [2].
► Rumbling and dull pains in the
epigastric relieved by expulsion of flatus, [11]. ► Pain
in the stomach, extending from the pyloric end of it to the axilla and
under the scapula, and down the right arm to the external side of the
forearm, it terminates about a hand’s breath from the elbow; this passed
off after taking biscuit and coffee, [9].
► Pain in the stomach, nausea, and
dimness of vision (after two hours); these symptoms were soon succeeded
by ineffectual efforts to vomit, great restlessness, and free
perspiration over the body, [25]. ► Gastralgia and colic, coincident with the
intoxicated feeling, in the afternoon (fourth day), [6]. ►
Cardialgia, when driving, at 11 A.M. (fifth day), [6]. [260.] ► Continued cardialgia, and eructations,
when sitting in the evening (sixth day), [6].
► Burning in the stomach and abdomen
(part of S. 211), [7]. ► Seized with violent cramplike pains in
the epigastrium, causing an involuntary cry, lasting but a moment, and
then subsiding, leaving a constricted sensation for one hour (three
hours and half after first dose); followed by a sensation of heat and
burning in the stomach (third day), [4].
► Gastric oppression; had to loosen
the waistband, after which colicky sensation to the left of the navel,
as if a stool would shortly follow, at breakfast (second morning), [6].
ABDOMEN.
►
Hypochondria. ► Slight
pains in the left hypochondriac region (third day), [2]. ►
Frequent sharp drawing pain through the left hypochondriac region, [5]. ►
Pulsative pains in left hypochondrium, continuing for one hour, at 3.30
P.M. (fourth day), [4]. ► Umbilical. ►
Rumbling in the region of the umbilicus, [5].
► Dull aching in the umbilical
region, which lasted till I go up (seventh morning), [2]. ► Sharp
stitches around the umbilicus, [9].
[270.] ►
Colicky pains below the navel, extending down to the testes, caused by
flatus, and relieved by its expulsion, in the evening (fourth day), [6]. ►
Two little painful spots on the right side of the umbilicus, extending
down into the bowels; the pain is increased by pressure, [9]. ► General
Abdomen. ► Rumbling and
rattling in the abdomen, with emission of flatus above and below (first
day), [1]. ►
Evacuation of flatus both ways, frequently (first day), [6]. ►
Palpitation of the abdominal muscles about three minutes (tenth day), [2]. ►
Weak nauseated feeling in the bowels, [9].
► Heaviness, and feeling of weight in
the bowels, [3]. ► Pain in the bowels towards morning (third
night), [2]. ►
Slight pain in the transverse colon, with yellow color of the skin of
the face (one case), [5]. ► Burning in the abdomen, the pain going
round in the intestines, towards 12 o’clock (second day), [7]. [280.] ► Slight griping pains through the abdomen,
mostly in the umbilical region, after supper, [9]. ► Dull
pains in the abdomen, [11]. ► Dull pain in the bowels, which became
very severe towards morning (first night), [2]. ► Sharp
pains in the bowels, with stools of a light creamy color and pappy
consistence, [11]. ► Sleep disturbed by lancinating pain in
the abdomen, relieved by copious discharge of flatus, [11]. ► Colic,
in the evening (ninth day), [6]. ► Slight colicky feeling as if the bowels
would be moved, at 11.30 P.M. (first day), [6]. ►
Tenderness of the abdominal parietes, [10].
► Gnawing pain in the region of the
transverse colon, all the afternoon, [5].
► Movement of flatus in the lower
bowels, at 11.30 P.M. (first day), [6].
► Hypogastrium and Iliac Regions.
[290.] ►
After experiencing chills, headache, feverish and prolonged sweating
seventeen hours after taking the drug, awakened by severe moving pains
in the lower abdomen, soon followed by a very large but natural stool,
without relief of the pains, and soon after a deeply bilious discharge,
with instant relief of the pain; nine hours afterwards another bilious
evacuation without pain (one case), [5].
► One of the right inguinal glands
became swollen and tender to touch, [9].
► Pain in the left iliac region
(first day), [1]. ► Slight pain in the left iliac region (two
cases), [5].
RECTUM AND ANUS.
►
The piles returned with raw, smarting pain, [9]. ►
Exciting news caused, apparently, urging to stool; stool papescent, of
dark-yellow color (sixth day), [6].
STOOL.
►
Diarrhœa. ► Bowels loose,
but great difficulty in discharging anything; there seems to be great
strength in the sphincter muscles (first day), [1]. ► After
breakfast a good stool; after supper a second stool, consistent (third
day), [6]. ►
Bilious stools (twelfth day), [6].
► At 9.30 A.M., a soft bilious stool,
preceded by threatenings of diarrhœa; the latter renewed at noon by
exciting news, and afterward when walking (seventh and eighth days), [6]. [300.] ►
Deep yellow, soft stool, after breakfast (tenth day), [6]. ► A
stool, at first consistent, then papescent, bilious, homogeneous, a few
minutes past 10 A.M., preceded all the morning by flatulence (fourth
day), [6]. ►
Tea-colored, semi-solid stool (eleventh day), [6]. ► Stool
of deep yellow color (papescent), after breakfast (fifth day), [6]. ►
After breakfast, a tea-colored stool, more consistent (ninth day), [6]. ►
Constipation. ► At 11
A.M., having put off the usual defecation, had a slow stool, leaving a
sensation of more remaining to be passed, and abdominal repletion
(second day), [6]. ► Insufficient stool, at 10 A.M. (first
day), [6]. ►
Attempted to pass a stool, but much wind only passed, in the evening
(ninth day), [6]. ► Relief of constipation (several cases), [5].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Urethra. ► Painless
redness about the orifice of the urethra (eighth day), [6]. [310.] ► Agreeable sensation during micturition
throughout the course of the urethra, [11].
► *A feeling as if something remained
behind when urinating; the stream stops and commences again, [9]. ►
Micturition. ► Frequent
micturition; wants to urinate every half hour. ►►
*Frequent emission of clear limpid urine, with seeming relief
to the dulness and heaviness of the head,
[11]. ►
*Urine increased in quantity, clear and watery, [5]. ►
Urine much increased in quantity (first night), [2]. ► In
nearly every instance the profuse emission of watery urine was
accompanied by transient chilliness, tremulousness, and an evident alleviation of the sensations of
heaviness of the head, dulness of mind, and dimness of sight
(several, who made partial provings for me, noticed the same symptoms,
with the alleviations), [10]. ► Urine. ►
Urine at times clear and limpid; at times milky and turbid, [11].® 2000
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