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

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NAJA.


EYE.

►
Objective.
► His eyes stood
staring and fixed
, [23].
► Eyes wide open and insensible to
light, [27]. [100.] ►
Seemed not to perceive objects, though his eyes were open (after some
hours), [25]. ► Eyes fixed (after a quarter of an hour), [24]. ►
Eyes fixed, pupils rather large, acting sluggishly to light (after
thirty-five minutes), [26]. ► Eyes weak (third day), [18]. ►
Subjective.
► Eyes felt
heavy (fifth day), [14]. ► Heaviness and dull pains in the eyes,
with suffusion for an hour (two hours and a half after second dose,
fourth day), [10]. ► Slight heaviness over eyes (fifth day), [13]; (after six hours, sixth day), [13a]. ►
Some little weight over eyes (seventeenth day), [13b]. ► Heavy
aching over eyes (sixth day), [13].
► Oppression across eyes, heaviness
in the evening (seventh day), [13].
[110.] ►
Eyes seem constantly to require cleaning with the lids, frequent
prickling, sight confused on looking at small print, etc.; have to rub
the eyes and look closely at it (eighth day), [12a]. ► Brow.
► Pain in brow (soon, first day), [17b]. ►
Very fine pricking in left eyebrow (third day), [1]. ► Lids.
► Eyelids of the right eye,
especially the upper, were swollen and livid, the lividity extending to
the right side of the nose (after thirty-five minutes), [26]. ►
Eyelids puffy in the morning (second day), [5]. ► Numb
feeling of right lid (first night), [15].
► Heaviness of eyelids (fifteenth
day), [15a]. ►
Heaviness of the eyelids, with difficulty in keeping them open; on
examination, found that the edges of the tarsal cartilages had a very
livid appearance, in the forenoon (fourth day), [14b]. ► Ball.
► Pain in the eyeballs, requiring
them to be rubbed frequently, and tired feeling on looking at a book,
although I have read less than usual to-night (four hours and a half
after second powder, fourth day), [10].
► Hot pain at the back of the
eyeballs (fourth day), [19]. ► Vision. [120.]
► Loss of the sense of seeing (after
ten hours), [22]. ► Unable to see, although his eyes were
open (after one hour), [21].

EAR.

►
Felt burning of ears, very soon (second day), [4]. ►
Occasional whizzing sound in one ear (the left), with insipid, almost
nauseous taste in mouth (third day), [8].
► Great noise in the ears, as if a
mill were going in the head, on waking in the morning (fifth day), [19].

NOSE.

►
Objective.
► Fluid
discharge from the nose, with the congestion to the head (seventh day), [12a]. ►
Coryza worse, with dull headache over eyes (first night), [15]. ► Very
severe coryza (third and seventh days, [15b].
► Previous symptoms appeared coupled
with a severe cold or influenza, the same being now very prevalent; have
desisted from the proving on that account; severe cold in head, fluent
coryza in nose and eyes, violent bursting headache, pains in limbs, from
the prominent symptoms (ninth day); very bad of same symptoms as
yesterday (tenth day), [18]. ► Subjective. ►
Have felt ever since the forenoon as though a sharp attack of influenza
were coming on (fourth day), [14b].
[130.] ►
Some time in the forenoon I perceived a considerable stuffing of the
nostrils to come on, gradually at first, but more rapidly soon
afterwards; very much increased in the afternoon and evening, and
greatly aggravated by my going out in the evening and walking some
distance through the very dense fog; on returning home, a free discharge
of thin watery mucus came on, and has continued since; it has afforded
considerable relief, being more able to breathe through the nose (fourth
day); the stuffing of the nostrils though present, was so in a much less
degree than yesterday, all the morning; nostrils were clogged up this
evening (fifth day), [14b]. ► Nose feels sore, hot, and discharges thin
secretion (fourth day), [18]. ► Soreness and irritation of the left ala
nasi (third day), [14]. ► Wing of nostril becoming sore, hot, and
tender (twenty-first day); nose worse, swelled and painful; secretion
suffused (twenty-second day); nose relieved by an eruption on its edge
(twenty-third day), [12a]. ► The right nostril is extremely sore,
feels as if ulcerated (sixteenth and seventeenth days), [4].

FACE.

►
Objective.
► Countenance
expressed some anxiety (second day), [8b].
► Face flushed, in the evening, and
burning hot (first day), [9]. ► Face red on rising, and covered with hard
knots like in erysipelas; this disappeared after washing (second day), [2]. ►
Face generally slightly livid (after thirty-five minutes); the lividity
had very markedly increased (after forty minutes), [26]. ► Face
of a greenish-yellow color, [31]. [140.] ►
Looked very pale and ill (after eleven days), [9]. ► Looks
thin and haggard in face, dark round eyes (fourth day), [18]. ►
Subjective.
► Sensation of
having caught cold in face and limbs, but without any chilliness of
languor; at night, pains in face increased (twelfth day), [12]. ► Dull,
sticky, deepseated pain in right side of face, for a few minutes (after
second powder, third day), [10]. ► Cheeks. ►
Cheeks red, especially on cheek-bones, patchy (seventh and eighth days),
[18]. ►
Awoke soon after midnight, with gnawing aching in left upper jaw,
sometimes shooting to the eye and temple, continued till half an hour
after rising; did not occur throughout the day, or only threatened a few
times (twelfth day), [12a]. ► Lips. ►
Lips dry, black pores and cracks (fourth day), [18]. ► Lips
dry, parched, inclined to crack (seventh day); dry and cracked (eighth
day); dry, painful, excoriated (ninth day), [12a]. ► Hot
sore feeling of the lips (four hours and a half after second powder,
fourth day), [10]. ► Chin. ►
Jaws locked (after a quarter of an hour), [24].
[150.] ►
Jaw so firmly clenched that the handle of a spoon was called in
requisition to force open his mouth, [33].
► Mouth wide open, tongue cold, [27]. ►
A drawing, painful sensation in the right jaw (after half an hour,
fourth day), [8]. ► Bruised pain of left condyle, severe when
moving jaw (fourth day); soreness of condyle of jaw not so severe
(twentieth day), [15b].

MOUTH.

►
Teeth and Gums.
► Teeth
and jaw-bone, left side, begin a gnawing and aching (ninth day), [12a]. ►
Pains in stumps of decayed teeth, towards evening; at night gums became
painful and swelled (twelfth day); teeth loose and gums becoming more
swelled and painful, in morning on waking; two hours after rising, gums
became hotter, teeth on right side got very loose; gums hot, swelled,
and painful to touch (thirteenth day); [Have not had any affection of
gums and teeth like above, for twelve months prior.], swelling of gums
extending to other side of face (fourteenth day); pains in teeth not
much influenced by heat and cold (fifteenth day); mouth still sensitive,
and gums swollen (sixteenth day); gnawing aching in sound teeth of left
side (seventeenth day); drawing aching in teeth of left side, worse when
stomach is empty (eighteenth day), [12].
► Tongue. ► Tongue coated with a thick yellow fur
(sixth day), [9]. ► Tongue coated white (sixth day), [14b]. ►
An ulcer on the frænum of the tongue (seventh day), [20]. ► Tongue
very dry, in the morning; no thirst (third day), [10]. [160.] ► At the spot of the tongue where the
powder fell, there is a sense of rawness, as if it would rise to a
blister (after half an hour, fourth day), [8].
► General Mouth. ► Sore on under lip opposite left canine
tooth; gum much swollen and inflamed (seventeenth day); ulcer of lip
disappeared in about twelve days after finishing the medicine, [15a]. ►
Dry mouth; this continued more or less all day (sixth day), [13]. ►
Dry mouth (second to third day); more than usual dryness of mouth (fifth
day), [13]. ►
Mouth dry on waking in the morning (second day), [10]. ► Dry
mouth and throat, disagreeable taste, as if breath was offensive (after
two hours, fifth day), [13a]. ► Mouth very dry (second and third
mornings), [13a]. ► Great dryness of mouth, frequent
expectoration, as if from throat, at 8.30 A.M. (eighth day), [13]. ►
Clammy mouth, in the morning (second day), [19]. ► Acid
rawness in the palate all day (fourth day); has increased rather,
to-day, and has remained (fifth day); considerable rawness of palate
(sixth day), [14a]. ► Saliva. [170.]
► Salivated, [41]. ► He foamed
at the mouth
, [23]. ► Foaming at the mouth (soon), [39]. ►
Foamed at the mouth a little (after one hour), [40]. ► Taste.
► Insipid, almost nauseous taste in
mouth, with the whizzing in the left ear (third day), [8]. ►
“Horrible taste” (second day), [19].
► Bitter taste in mouth (second day),
[15]. ►
Sour taste in the mouth (fifth day), [14b].
► Sour taste in the mouth, with
nausea, and roughness of the tongue and palate, in the evening (third
day), [14a]. ►
Sour, raw kind of taste in the mouth (sixth day), [14b]. [180.]
► Cuprous, metallic taste in mouth
(thirteenth day), [12]. ► Speech. ►
Ceased to speak intelligibly (after twenty minutes), [26]. ► Could
not speak articulately (after some hours), [25]. ► Soon
speechless and insensible, [44]. ► Unable to speak (after thirty-five
minutes), [26]; (after one hour), [21]. ►
Unable to speak; he was unconscious and could give no answer (after two
hours), [39]. ► It was twelve hours after he began to
show signs of returning life before he recovered his speech, [24].

THROAT.

►
Objective.
► Spasms of the
throat (after one hour), [21]. ► (Secretion in upper part of throat more
abundant than usual; very hoarse), (third to fourth day), [12b]. ►
Accumulation of tough mucus at top of throat (eleventh day), [12b]. [190.]
► Great hawking of mucus from throat
(seventeenth day), [4]. ► Subjective. ►
Throat dry on waking (second day), [2].
► Disagreeable feeling in the throat,
a good way down, like indigestion, for about two hours (first day), [19b]. ►
Had complained, it was said, of constriction in the throat, [41]. ►
Constricted feeling and dryness in throat (after one hour, sixth day), [13a]. ►
When dozing, I was roused by a sudden sense of choking, a sensation I
never experienced in my life before, a sort of grasping of the throat
(soon); a few minutes later, felt a sudden jerking of the masseter
muscle of the left side (first morning), [8].
► Pressure and gagging in throat,
with sad thoughts, for ten minutes, in the morning (eleventh day), [4]. ►
Has had a sore throat all day, worse since taking the powder (fifteenth
day); is subject to an attack of tonsillitis every winter, [19a]. ►
Awoke with some soreness of the left side of the throat (twelfth day), [11b]. ►
Rawness in the throat for several hours (fourth day), [19]. [200.] ► Feeling of rawness in throat, with slight
pinching of stomach (soon), (third day), [17a].
► Slight feeling of rawness in the
throat (fifth day), [19]. ► Roughness in the throat from reading
aloud only a short time (ten minutes after second powder, second day), [10a]. ►
Sense of scraping in throat (soon), (second night), [17a]. ►
Scraping sensation in throat, with the hoarseness, towards night; more
effort required to swallow than usual (third day); towards night,
scraping in the throat, and an accumulation of tenacious secretion at
top of throat, inducing frequent inclination to swallow (fourth day);
only a slight formation of mucus, easily detached by hawking, and then
always swallowed (seventh day), [12a].
► Tonsils. ► Left tonsil inflamed and painful, at 8
A.M. (ninth day), [11a]. ► Slight pain in one tonsil (soon), (second
day), [17a]. ►
Slight shooting pain in left tonsil (after two hours, third day), [17]. ►
Fauces, Pharynx, and Œsophagus.
►
Some little dryness about fauces (seventeenth day), [13b]. ►
Uneasy dryness of the fauces (soon), (second day), [8]. [210.] ► A peculiar stringent sensation in the
pharynx (fifth day), [17]. ► Kind of burning pressure on a point at
back of pharynx, several hours this afternoon (first day), [1]. ►
After a considerable fast, dull pricking in the left pharynx (after one
hour, third day); slight pricking in the left side of the pharynx (three
hours after first powder); soreness in left side of the throat much
worse (eleven hours after second powder, fifth day); left side of the
throat is red, with considerable pain on swallowing, in the morning;
throat very painful (after twelve hours, sixth day), [11a]. ► The
stricture of the œsophagus increased so much that nothing could be
forced down the throat, [23]. ► Swallowing. ►
Deglutition was so much impeded that hardly anything could be got to
pass into the stomach (after ten hours), [22].
► Power of swallowing gone, [27]. ►
External Throat.
►
Startings about his throat (after some hours), [25]. ► Felt a
pressure on upper part of right sterno-mastoid muscle, extending over
the skin to angle of jaw, for five minutes (first day), [4]. ►
Increased tenderness of the throat and over sternum, lasting all day
(sixth day), [20].

STOMACH.

►
Appetite.
► Appetite
failing (ninth day), [12a]. [220.] ►
Loss of appetite, [9]; (fifteenth
day), [12]. ►
Craving for stimulants, which aggravate
the state (eighth day), [4]. ► Great desire for wine (fourth day), [15b]. ►
Thirst.
► Thirsty (sixth
day), [18]. ►
Very thirsty (seventh and eighth days), [18].
► Eructations. ► Eructations, tasting like barley water,
since shortly after taking powder (after four hours), [10]. ► Hot,
foul risings of air from stomach (fourteenth day), [12]. ►
Acidity of stomach (seventeenth day), [4].
► Nausea and Vomiting. ► Nausea (fifteenth day), [12]; (second morning), [20]; without vomiting (immediately), [21]; all day (soon), (first day), [17b]; after breakfast and dinner
(sixteenth day), [15a]. ► Nausea and faintness coming on suddenly,
soon after breakfast; removed by acid fruit (second day), [18]. [230.] ► Nausea, and a disagreeable sensation in
mouth (soon), (third day), [17a]. ► Nausea, with very parched mouth, in the
evening; frequent inclination to expectorate rather adhesive saliva, yet
constant desire to drink, in the evening (seventeenth day), [13]. ►
Nausea, with pain of stomach and feeling of prostration; a beating in
stomach; relieved in open air (twelfth day), [15a]. ►
Slight nausea (seventh day), [17];
on going to bed (second day), [13].
► Slight nausea and empty
eructations, during the forenoon (first day), [17]. ►
Sensible of sickness at the stomach, but did not vomit (soon), [25]. ►
Decided nausea (after the dose, third night and fourth morning), [17a]. ►
Eat a few walnuts, which caused sickness and pain of stomach; they never
hurt me before (fourth day), [15a].
► Sick feeling, which, however, she
attributes to having taken the powder dry on the tongue instead of in
solution, which she did because she was suddenly called away when she
was about to take the powder (third night); a little sickish, like last
night (fourth night), [19a]. ► During the evening felt sick, almost to
vomiting (fourth day), [15]. [240.] ►
Frequent faintish sick turns pass over her (sixth day), [18]. ► Felt
“sickish,” from a “feeling in the throat,” opposite
the top of sternum (soon); continued sick, and felt a disagreeable
sensation about stomach, and headache above the eyes, till past midday,
and belching up of water in the throat, and flatulence; in the afternoon
began to feel pain in the throat again, “like as if she had the
cold” (first day), [19]. ► Very qualmish and dull in the evening
(first day), [12]. [Unusually more
inclined to exertion, mental or physical, in evening.] ► Vomiting (in a few minutes), [29]; (after ten minutes), [28]. ►
Vomited plentifully, [23]. ► Stomach. ►
Uneasiness in the stomach, which soon passed off (after six minutes), [8]. ►
Disagreeable feeling in stomach (sixth day), [19]. ►
Feeling of indigestion; sensation as of a lump in stomach and upper part
of œsophagus (twelfth day), [19a].
► Sinking sensation in stomach
(second day), [18]. ► Great heat in the stomach when empty, and
hot and foul eructations (eighteenth day), [12]. [250.] ► Disagreeable feeling, as of a loaded
stomach (second night), [19b]. ► Griping sensation in the stomach (soon),
(eighth day), [17a]. ► Slight pinching sensation in stomach,
like incipient gastrodynia (soon), (first night), [17a]. ►
Slight pinching in stomach, with feeling of rawness in throat, (soon),
(third day), [17a]. ► Slight spasmodic pain in stomach (soon),
(second night), [17a]. ► Pressure, as from stones in stomach,
after each meal (seventeenth day), [4].
► Pricking in stomach (soon), (fifth
day); after dinner (seventh day), [3].

ABDOMEN.

►
Hypochondria.
►
Occasionally, throughout the day, stitchy, evanescent pains from before
backwards in both hypochondria; anguishing pain in left hypochondrium
and left lumbar region, for an hour or two after taking dinner, and
flatulence; aching pains around loins occasionally (second day); after
going to bed was very much annoyed for a long time (an hour or more)
with aching pain in loins, constant, and with anguishing pain in
abdomen, with flatulence (second night), [10].
► Umbilical and Sides. ► Uneasiness about the umbilical region
(after a few minutes, first day), [17].
► Frequent sharp, griping pain at
umbilical region (fifth day), [17].
[260.] ►
Occasional twisting pain in umbilical region (first day), [17]. ►
Frequent cutting in umbilical region and small of back, followed by a
rather profuse and sudden leucorrhœa, in the afternoon (second day), [18]. ►
Griping pain in the left side of the abdomen, for about ten minutes
(soon), [9]. ►
Dull, aching, coliclike pain along left side of abdomen, which lasted
for more than an hour, and was relieved after several flatulent
eructations (ten minutes after second powder, second day), [10a]. ►
General Abdomen.
►
Swelling in abdomen, with feeling of tightness and flatulence (after
second powder, fifth day), [10a]. ► Flatulence (second day); considerable
flatulence, not so bad as before (third day), [10]. ►
Troubled with flatulence (first day), also to-day, but not so much
(second day), [10]. ► For some time past have been troubled
with flatulence, and mild, colicky pains in abdomen (fifth night), [10]. ►
Much flatulence during the course of the day (seventh day), [10]. ►
Much flatulence, and colicky pains in abdomen (after second powder,
sixth day), [10]. [270.] ►
Rumbling and aching in bowels, after dining (seventeenth day), [12]. ►
Rumblings and slight cutting pains in bowels, in the afternoon
(fourteenth day), [12]. ► Uncomfortable sense of emptiness at
abdominal region, relieved by folding the arms over it and pressing
(fourth day), [18]. ► Occasional pains in the bowels throughout
the day (fourth day), [8]. ► Slight pain in the abdomen (seventh,
tenth, and eleventh days), [9]. ► Severe pains in the belly, which, upon
examination, appeared tense and much swelled; the sense of tension or
tightness spread fast towards the heart, [23].
► Very severe pains of abdomen,
occasionally lasting two minutes (sixth day), [15a]. ►
Griping pain in the bowels immediately after dinner, relieved by a large
bilious stool (seventh day), [14].
► Dull pains in abdomen (after second
powder, fourth day), [10]. ► Occasionally dull pains in abdomen
throughout the day (fourth day), [10].
[280.] ►
Sharp pains of abdomen (eleventh day), [15a].
► Cutting pains in the abdomen,
extending to lower region of back (fifth day), [18]. ► Severe
cutting pain of abdomen, lasting a minute (after fifteen minutes, fourth
day), [15a]. ►
Tearing pains of abdomen (first night), [15a].
► Now and the tearing pain in abdomen
(third day), [8]. ► Tearing pains of abdomen, which lasted
two hours, in the morning (sixth day), [15].
► Colicky pains in abdomen (fourth
night), [19a]. ► Colicky pains in abdomen (slight),
(soon), and occasionally throughout the day (third day), [10]. ► After
being in bed, and before falling asleep, was a good deal annoyed with
flatulent colic (first night), [10].
► This evening, after dinner, felt a
rumbling and aching in the abdomen, as though diarrhœa were going to
come on, and frequently, when sitting perfectly still, a heavy pulsation
appeared almost to lift up the bowels (third day), [14]. ►
Hypogastrium and Iliac Regions.
[290.]
► Griping pain once or twice in lower
part of abdomen, with desire for stool during the continuance of the
pain (after second powder), [10a].
► Tormina in lower bowels, with
desire to evacuate them (after nine hours and a half, third day), [17]. ►
Frequent, rather severe cutting pains, shooting from below upward, in
lower abdomen, internally (sixth day), [18].
► Felt a pain dart from left ilium
forwards into abdominal muscles; lasted only a moment, in the evening
(second day), [3]. ► For two or three days, during the past
week, I felt a slight painful sensation about the groins, as if the
muscles had been overfatigued or stretched; I could not make this out
into a definite symptom of any part; perhaps merely a stretch of the
muscles in walking or stepping into the gig (fourteenth day), [16a].

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