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

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EYE.

►
Objective.
► Staring eyes,
[23]. ►
The vessels in a small spot in the inner canthus of the left eye were
injected with blood without pain, [37].
► Subjective. ► The eyes are dry; he feels increased
warmth in them, [37]. ► Dryness and burning in the eyes, in the
evening, by the light, [14]. ► The eyes burn, are dim and weak (sixth
day), [14]. [180.] ►
Burning in the left external canthus (after three hours), [14]. ►
Burning and sticking in both eyes, especially in the right, and
particularity in the inner canthus, for several evenings, [14]. ►
Transient burning in the right eye, at 4 P.M., [14]. ►
Violent burning in the eyes, in the evening by the light (second
evening), [14]. ► Pressure in the eyes, in the evening, [37]. ►
Feeling as though the eyes would be pressed out, though painless (after
half an hour), [14]. ► Feeling as though the eyes would be
pressed out, though painless (after half an hour), [14]. ► A
stitch externally to the left canthus (after one hour), [14]. ►
Constant scraping sensation in the right inner canthus (after four
hours), [14]. ► Biting in the right eye as from salt, at
2 P.M., [14]. ► Itching in the left eye, at 4 P.M., [14]. [190.]
► Itching of the left eye, relieved
by rubbing, after 2.30 P.M., [14].
► Itching in the left inner canthus, [14]. ►
Itching in the left inner canthus, which changes to pressure; in the
inner canthus, vessels filled with blood extend branching like a tree
towards the pupil, [37]. ► Violent itching in the left eye (third
afternoon), [14]. ► Brow and Orbit. ►
Violent aching around the eyes, especially the left, constantly
increasing till the ninth day, [14].
► Drawing in the upper margin of both
orbits, on exerting the eyes (after two hours), [14]. ►
Pressure towards the orbits from the head, and a feeling as though water
would be pressed out of the eyes, followed during the day by increased
lachrymation (after 14 drops), [12].
► Tearing in the left superciliary
ridge; thence it extends into the teeth and right lower jaw (after five
minutes), [14]. ► Lids. ►
The eyelids were tightly closed, the pupils very much dilated, and
without any contractility, [16]. ► Agglutination of the eyes, in the morning
(second day), [14]. [200.] ► Agglutination of the left eye, only
transiently relieved by washing (eighth day), [14]. ► Slight
burning in the eyelids, [38]. ► The eyelids cause a pressive pain in the
eyes, as if they were too dry and he had not slept enough, [37]. ►
Burning jerking in right lower lid (after two hours), [14]. ►
Itching beneath the right upper lid, disappearing after scratching
(after four hours), [14]. ► Itching in the right inner canthus,
relieved by rubbing, [37]. ► Lachrymal Apparatus. ► Watering of the left eye, transient, at 2
P.M., [14]. ►
Lachrymation in the morning (fourth day), [14].
► Itching in the left inner canthus
causes lachrymation, only transiently relieved by rubbing, [27]. ►
Ball.
► A sensation as of
a band around the eyeball, mingled with some stitches, [37]. ► Pupil.
[210.] ►
Dilatation of the pupils, [37]. ► The right pupil is more dilated than the
left, [37]. ► Vision. ►
*Obscuration of vision
; she did not see objects very
distinctly (after a quarter of an hour), [14].
► Vision became very difficult; she
saw objects only indistinctly (after one hour and a half), [14]. ►
Remarkable illusion of vision; everything seems excessively large, with
the greatest anxiety; for example, the chairs seem as though one could
not get off of them; the flight of steps as though one could not go down
them; but, as soon as the objects were touched, the illusion
disappeared, and everything assumed its natural shape (coffee an
antidote), [24]. ► While awake, he fancies that he sees old
men with long beards and distorted faces; and sparks of fire, [17].
   

EAR.

►
External.
► Boring in the
right external concha (after two hours), [14].
► Drawing in the muscles behind the
right ear, [38]. ► Fine stitches in front of left ear (after
half an hour), [14]. ► Middle. ►
Burning pain in the left ear (after one hour and a half), [14]. [220.] ► A feeling of distension in the right ear
(after half an hour), [38]. ► Earache, worse in the left (after two
hours), [37]. ► Aching in the left ear (after half an
hour), [14]. ►
A pressive sensation in the right ear (soon), [38]. ►
Violent stitches coming out of the left ear (after two hours), [14]. ►
Fine stitch in the right ear (after one hour and a half), [14]. ►
Tearing, coming out of the left ear and behind it (after three-quarters
of an hour), [14]. ► Fine tearing extending into the right
ear, not relieved by boring into it (after one hour and a half), [14]. ►
Crawling in the left ear (after one hour and a half), [14]. ►
Crawling deep in the left ear, not relieved by boring in it (after four
hours), [14]. [230.] ►
Crawling in the right ear, as after going to sleep, soon after dinner, [14]. ►
Itching in the right ear, not relieved by boring into it (after half an
hour), [14]. ►
Itching in the left ear, relieved by boring into it, at 3 P.M., [14]. ►
Hearing.
► Roaring and
whizzing in the left ear, [37]. ► Whizzing in the left ear, disappearing of
itself (after one hour), [14].
   

NOSE.

►
Objective.
► Ineffectual
attempts to sneeze (after three-quarters of an hour), [14]. ►
Sneezing, [37]; at 2 P.M., and
twice at 4 P.M., [14]. ► Sneezing, with yawning, frequently (after
half an hour), [14]. ► Violent sneezing, followed by fluent
nasal mucus, at 5 A.M. (second day), [14].
► The secretion of mucus in the nose
is suppressed, without the slightest sensation of catarrh, [37]. [240.]
► The catarrh becomes loosened (after
two hours), [14]. ► Stopped catarrh, on stooping, can get no
air through the nose, in the morning (second day), [14]. ►
Subjective.
► Stoppage of
the nose, as if coryza would come on, at 5 P.M., [14]. ►
Stoppage of the nose, she could scarcely get any air in (after
three-quarters of an hour); can get no air through the nose (after one
hour and a half); the stoppage of the nose loosens (after two hours), [14]. ►
Feeling of coldness as from ice near both wings of the nose, [37]. ►
Feeling in the nose as though catarrh would appear (after one hour and a
half), [14]. ►
Feeling above the nose as in catarrh (third hour), [14]. ►
Feeling of fulness in the nose (after two hours and a half), [14]. ►
Cramplike pain in the right nasal bone (after a quarter of an hour), [37]. ►
Drawing extending up through the nose (after one hour and a half), [14]. [250.]
► A pressing-forward sensation in the
upper nasal region (after one hour), [14].
► Pressing-asunder pain in the nasal
bones, [37]. ►
At one time sticking, at another pressing-inward in the root of the nose
(after three-quarters of an hour), [14].
► Fine stitches externally in the
right wing of the nose, at 2.30 P.M., [14].
► Frequent slight crawling and
itching on the left outer wing of the nose, which, when touched on the
inside, was painful as if ulcerated, [37].
► Tickling in the right nostril
(after two hours), [14]. ► Itching in the upper part of the nose
(after three-quarters of an hour), [14].
► Itching of the left wing of the
nose (after three-quarters of an hour), [14].
► Itching in both nostrils
disappearing on rubbing (after two hours and three-quarters), [14]. ►
Violent itching in the nose, [17].
[260.] ►
Painful itching above the root of the nose (after two hours and a half),
[14]. ►
Smell.
► He smells the
medicine in the open air (after a quarter of an hour), [14].
   

FACE.

►
Sleepy look (after three hours), [14].
► Pale look (after seven days), [14]. ►
Face yellow, earthy, [37]. ► Face stopped yellow, [37]. ► The
liver spots in the same seem to become more distinct than ever (after
one hour and a quarter), [14]. ► Puffy face, [25]. ► The
features become spasmodically distorted, (soon), [26]. ► Cheeks.
► Burning internally in the right
cheek (after one hour and a half), [14].
[270.] ►
Tension as if one pressed firmly with a nail on the left zygoma, with
some itching (after three hours), [14].
► Chin. ►
Inclination to close the teeth tightly, as in tetanus (after a few
minutes), [38]. ► A pain in the articulation of the jaw as
if it would be dislocated, [37]. ► A stitch near the left side of the chin,
in the afternoon, [14]. ► Fine stitch in the left lower jaw, while
walking in the open air (after three-quarters of an hour), [14]. ►
Transient tearing in the left angle of the lower jaw, and the lower back
teeth (after three-quarters of an hour), [14].
► Violent bruised pain in the whole
jaw, lasting half an hour, at 7 P.M., [14].
► Gnawing as if in the bone, on the
right side near the chin (after three-quarters of an hour), [14].
   

MOUTH.

►
Teeth.
► A back tooth in
the left lower row seems larger and longer (after one hour and a
quarter), [14]. ► A painful sensation in the back teeth of
the left side, relieved by biting the teeth together, [37]. [280.] ► Boring and digging in the left lower back
teeth, drawing back and forth, relieved by neither pressure nor biting
upon them, during dinner, [14]. ► Sticking pain in several teeth of the
right lower jaw (after one hour), [37].
► A dull sticking pain in the teeth,
now of the lower, now of the upper jaw; at one time beneath the parietal
bone, at another beneath the temporal bone, [37]. ► Dull
sticking toothache, [37]. ► Tearing in the left upper eye-tooth,
relieved by pressing upon it (after one hour), [14]. ►
Tearing in the left lower back teeth, and in the gum (after one hour and
a quarter); relieved by cold water, [14].
► Gnawing and boring in the right
lower teeth, during supper, frequently intermitting disappearing after
eating, [14]. ► Violent jerking toothache in the left
lower row, in the evening, [14]. ► Tongue. ►
Tongue coated white, [37]. ► Tongue coated with dirty white mucus in
the morning, and the taste in the mouth was flat, as if he had had a
paroxysm of ague; he even felt an emptiness and goneness in the stomach,
[37]. [290.]
► The left side of the tongue was
swollen and stiff, painful as if something was sticking into it; two
evenings in succession, [37]. ► Tongue dry (after a quarter of an hour), [14]. ►
The tongue is dry and raw after eating, with accumulation of saliva in
the mouth, [37]. ► The back of the tongue was sticky, with
constant watery saliva in the forepart of the mouth, [37]. ►
Burning on the tip of the tongue, as from a cut; soon disappearing
(after four hours), [14]. ► A feeling as if the tongue had been
burnt, causing a sensation as if blunted, after eating, [37]. ► Sore
pain on the margin of the tongue, [37].
► General Mouth. ► Dryness in the mouth, [1]. ► Mouth
dry and coated (second morning), [14].
► Feeling as though he had a very
offensive breath, and the same kind of taste on the tongue (after one
hour and a quarter), [14]. ► Saliva. [300.] ►
Increased saliva in the mouth, with dryness of the throat, [38]. ►
Accumulation of saliva in the mouth, and ecptysis (after two hours), [14]. ►
Frequent spitting of saliva (after a quarter of an hour), [14]. ► Watery
saliva collects in the mouth (after two hours), [14]. ► A
constant thin watery saliva in the mouth, of a feverish taste, [37]. ►
Collection of sourish saliva in the mouth (after ten minutes), [14]. ►
Accumulation of tenacious mucus in the throat, every morning, when
fasting, [38]. ► Accumulation of water in the mouth (after
half an hour), [14]. ► Accumulation of water in the mouth, with
nausea, lasting half an hour, [14].
► Accumulation of water, qualmishness
and nausea, disappearing for three-quarters of an hour, and again
returning, relieved by eructations (after three-quarters of an hour), [14]. ►
Taste.
[310.] ► Taste flat, insipid, [37]. ►
Feverish taste, all day, [27]. ► Taste slimy and pasty, [37]. ► Taste
and odor of peach brandy in the mouth (after a quarter of an hour), [14].
   

THROAT.

►
Objective.
► Ineffectual
hawking (after five minutes), [14].
► Frequent hawking on account of
rawness in the throat (after three-quarters of an hour), [14]. ►
Hawking of mucus (soon), [14]. ► Hawking of mucus (after three-quarters of
an hour, and one hour and a half), [14].
► Frequent hawking of mucus in the
morning (fourth day), [14]. ► He hawks sweetish mucus, at 2 P.M., [14]. [320.]
► A piece of watery mucus comes into
the throat, which is easily expectorated without hawking (after one hour
and a quarter), [14]. ► Subjective. ►
Heat in the throat, with hoarseness (after two minutes), [14]. ►
Burning and rawness in the throat (after one hour and a half), [14]. ►
Burning in the throat and palate, lasting a long time, afterwards in the
palate only, [14]. ► Slight burning and some pain in the
throat (after two hours), [38]. ► Dull pain in the throat, chest, region of
the heart and stomach, and in the scapula, only on the right side (after
one hour), [13]. ► Painful drawing downward in the throat,
when swallowing and when not, frequent and long-lasting, disappearing
after eating soup (after one hour), [14].
► Dull sticking pain as from a lump
in the throat, which extends to the left side of the back, [37]. ►
Tearing, from the occiput to the throat, only somewhat relieved by
rubbing (after half an hour), [14].
► Scraping in the throat, [1], [12].
[330.] ►
Scraping in the throat before and during cough (after three hours), [14]. ►
Scraping in the throat and larynx, with hoarseness and frequent need to
cough (after 16 drops), [12]. ► Rawness in the throat, lasting an hour,
frequently returning in the afternoon (after half an hour), [14]. ►
Rawness in the throat with hacking (after a quarter of an hour), [14]. ►
Rawness in the throat, causing some cough, soon disappearing, in the
morning (fourth day), [14]. ► Rawness and scraping in the throat, which
provokes a hacking cough (after five minutes), [14]. ►
Frequent hacking on account of rawness in the throat (after
three-quarters of an hour), [14]. ► Speech is difficult on account of rawness
in the throat (after three-quarters of an hour), [14]. ►
Roughness of the throat (after 20 drops), [11].
► Roughness and scraping in the
throat, on swallowing, somewhat relieved after swallowing (after five
hours), [14]. [340.] ► A
choking pain in the upper part of the pharynx, which involves the chest
and causes a kind of oppression in it; this pain then extends over the
whole neck and face; with dull sticking pain in the teeth, and a feeling
in some of them as if they had been raised up, [37]. ► She
was able to swallow only after consciousness had somewhat returned, [16]. ►
External Throat.
► Pain as
from stiffness in the left side of the neck and throat, neither
aggravated nor relieved by motion (after forty hours), [37]. ►
Spasmodic contractive sensation in the anterior cervical muscles, while
drinking (after one hour), [14].
   

STOMACH.

►
Appetite.
► Appetite
unusually great, [1]. ► Great hunger (after four hours), [14]. ►
Appetite less than usual (second morning), [5]. ► Loss of
appetite was the primary effect; the appetite became very good in the
secondary action, better than formerly; he ate more, with greater
relish, and it agreed with him (after twenty-four hours), [37]. ► Thirst.
► Increased thirst, [12]. ► Much
thirst, [37]. [350.] ►
Great thirst (after 16 drops), [12].
► Excessive thirst, with dryness in
the mouth, without heat, at 8.30 P.M., also at 4 P.M. (second day), [13]. ►
Eructation and Hiccough.
►
Inclination to (ineffectual) eructations (after a quarter of an hour), [14]. ►
Eructations and ineffectual sneezing (after a quarter of an hour), [14]. ►
Frequent tasteless eructations (after 25 drops), [5]. ►
Incomplete eructations (after one hour and a half), [14]. ► Empty
eructations (after five minutes and two hours), [14]. ► Empty
eructations, after breakfast, [14].
► Frequent empty eructations (after
one hour), [14]. ► Eructations of air (after three-quarters
of an hour), [14]. [360.] ►
Eructations tasting of the food, at 2 P.M., [14]. ►
Eructations of the breakfast (after half an hour), [14]. ►
Eructations twice, tasting of the porridge that had just been eaten
(after one hour and a quarter), [14].
► Eructations tasting of the drug,
followed by burning in the stomach (after a quarter of an hour), [14]. ►
Sweetish eructations (after half an hour), [14]. ► Bitter
eructations, during and after breakfast (after one hour and a quarter), [14]. ►
Eructations of a rancid taste (after five minutes), (and also on
previous days), [14]. ► Eructations tasting of bitter almonds
(after five minutes), [14]. ► Risings of tasteless water, after which
the nausea gradually disappears (after half an hour), [14]. ► Heat
rises from the stomach (after half an hour), [14]. [370.] ► A feeling as though hot vapor rose from
the stomach to the shoulders (after one hour), [14]. ►
Hiccough, twice (after a quarter of an hour); also, all day, [14]. ►
Nausea and Vomiting.
►
Nausea, [23]; immediately, [14]. ►
Nausea in the stomach (after one hour), [14].
► Nausea and qualmishness in the
stomach (after a quarter of an hour), [14].
► Nausea and vomiting, [27]. ►
Nausea, stomachache, after dinner (second day), [14]. ►
Nausea, with colic, soon disappearing, in the morning, [37]. ► Slight
transient nausea (after 20 drops), [10].
► Became nauseated in the morning,
with a feeling of hunger in the stomach, yet food nauseated him, [37]. [380.]
► A peculiar feeling in the
epigastric region, not exactly nausea, but somewhat similar to the
sensation that precedes vomiting (after 15 drops), [5]. ► He
feels sick and nauseated (after ten hours), [37]. ► He
became sick, as if he had taken an emetic, in the morning in bed (after
twenty-four hours), [37]. ► He became faint and qualmish about the
heart, with anxious warmth, as if he had taken an emetic, and could not
vomit; in the afternoon (after forty hours), [37]. ►
Vomiting, [17], [23]. ► Stomach.
► Moving about in the stomach (after
five minutes), [14]. ► Rumbling in the stomach, followed by sour
eructations (after half an hour), [14].
► Prolonged rumbling in the stomach, [14]. ►
Agreeable warmth in the stomach and abdomen (soon), [14]. ►
Feeling of emptiness in the stomach (after 35 drops), [5]. [390.] ► Feeling of weakness in the stomach (after
one hour and a half), [14]. ► Discomfort in the stomach, as from
fasting (after a quarter of an hour), [14].
► Feeling as of a disordered stomach,
after dinner, disappearing after eating bread, [14]. ► Pain
in the epigastric region, while urinating, disappearing after urinating
(after two hours), [14]. ► Pain in the stomach with qualmishness
(after five to six hours), [13]. ► Pain and nausea in the stomach (after
half an hour), [14]. ► Pain in the stomach similar to a
faintness, in the morning (sixth day), [14].
► Violent pain in the stomach, soon
followed by loss of speech, and death after one hour; without vomiting,
convulsions, discharges from the bowels, or any external alteration
(from about 10 drachms of Aqua Laurocerasi), [28]. ► Most
violent pain in the stomach, followed by death, [28]. [In a young person who had drank some Aq.
Lauro, from a bottle.] ► Burning in
the stomach, [14]. [400.] ► Burning in the pit of the stomach, soon
disappearing (after half an hour), [14].
► Burning in the stomach, and warmth
in the whole abdomen, after beer, in the morning, [14]. ►
Cooling burning in the stomach and abdomen, lasting a long time (after
five minutes), [14]. ► Feeling as if the stomach were full of
water, with nausea (after a quarter of an hour), [14]. ► Most
violent distension in the stomach; loss of speech and death, but without
vomiting, diarrhœa or previous convulsions, [28]. [In a woman who drank 10 drachms of Aq.
Lauro, in an hour.] ► Feeling of
contraction in the epigastric region (after half an hour), [14]. ►
Contractive feeling in the stomach, at 2 P.M., [14]. ► A
cramplike pulling pain in the pit of the stomach, in the evening on
getting into bed and lying on one side; with a small, weak, contracted
pulse; this only disappeared when lying quietly on the back (after
sixteen hours), [37]. ► Pressure in the stomach, with nausea
(after half an hour), [14]. ► Severe pressure in the stomach, [22]. [410.]
► Violent pressure in the epigastric
region, [39]. ► Cramplike sticking pain above the pit of
the stomach, [37]. ► Violent stitch in the pit of the stomach
(after two hours and a half), [14].
► Violent stitch, extending through
the pit of the stomach into the small of the back (after half an hour), [14].

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