OPIUM.
EYE.
►
Eyes very red; pupils dilated, with staring look (after forty-eight
hours), [167]. [450.] ►
Eyes rotated upward under brows (after four hours), [236]. ► Eyes
turned upward under the upper eyelids, [183].
► Eye prominent and motionless
(second day), [290]. ► Eyes open, turned upward, [73]. ► Eyes
wide open, [222]. ► Eyes open, and altogether distorted, [92]. [Original revised by Hughes.] ► Eyes distorted, [149]. ► Eyes
fixed (after two hours), [276]. ► Eyes fixed; pupils contracted, and
altogether unaffected by light (after one hour and three-quarters), [185]. ►
Eyes dark and glassy, [165]. [460.] ►
Glassy, deep-sunken eyes, [192]. ► Eyes glistening, [155]. ► Eyes
glistening, sparkling, [62]. ► Eyes sparkled, [126]. ►
Staring look, [203]. ► He stares at the bystanders with watery
eyes; does not know what he is looking at, and cannot recognize
individuals, [75]. ► Eyes staring, with excessive lustre, [66]. ►
Eyes wild and staring (after one hour), [127].
► Eyes became full and sparkling, [206]. ►
Eyes look heavy (after twenty minutes), [129].
[470.] ►
Eyes glassy and lack lustre, [162].
► Heavy, uneasy eyes (after 4 to 6
grains), [130]. ► Eyes heavy and languid (second day), [144]. ►
Dull, unimpressive eye, [232]. ► Eyes dim (after two hours), [175]. ►
Eye lost its expression, [182]. ► Eyes sunk, [232].
► Eyes sunk, and often glassy (after
six hours), [127]. ► Eyes sealed up, or dropping rheum, [232]. ►
Eyes only half closed; pupils dilated, insensible, [54]. [480.] ► Eyes half open, drawn forcibly upward and
outward; pupils contracted, did not dilate when light was removed, [238]. ►
Eyes partly closed; at times open, with the eyeballs turned upward, [199]. ►
Eyes closed, and the eyeballs turned upward and slightly outward (both
of them); the pupils very much contracted; no reflex action of eyelids, [286]. ►
While in school he was frequently obliged to forcibly open and close the
eyes, with dryness in the eyes, as from dust and frequent pressure on
both eyes. On going home it was noticed that he opened and closed the
eyes more frequently than natural, and was asked the reason; on
examining the eyes there was found great redness of the conjunctiva of
the lids and of the eyeballs, [116].
► Dimness and moisture of the eyes
(fifth day), [235]. ► Eyes alternately moist and dim (fourth
day), [235]. ► *Eyes dry and weak, with burning, and a
sensation as if dust were in them; this lasted during the
evening and after going to bed, and only passed off during the night
(after 2 drops), [106]. ► The eyes seem moist in the open air
(sixth day), [235]. ► Stiffness of the eyes (tenth day), [235]. ►
Heaviness of the eyes (tenth day), [118].
[490.] ►
On awaking, eyes dull and heavy, [206].
► Sensation of dryness in the right
eye, [112]. ►
Dryness of the eyes, that seem stiff, sometimes with much water in them
(third day), [235]. ► *Burning in the eyes, with a
sensation as if sand or dust were in them (after 2 drops), [107]. ►
Sensation of burning in the eyes and lachrymation, [117]. ►
Pressure in the eyes, causing a sensation as if he had lost the power to
hold the lids open (ten minutes after 1/2 grain), [100a]. ►
Slight pressure upon the right eye, as from continued reading, [111]. ►
Slight obscuration of the eyes (sixth day), [113]. ►
Sensation as though the eyes were too large for their orbits, [26]. ►
A sensation in the eyes as if they were swelled, and the sockets not
large enough to contain them (after 2 or 3 grains), [130]. ► Lid.
[500.] ► Swelling of the lower lids, [38]. ►
Eyelids swollen, dark-colored, half-closed, [263]. ► The
lids hang down as if paralyzed, [69].
► Eyelids drooping (second day), [154]. ►
Eyelids tremulous and a half open; pupils contracted, [157]. ► Lids
trembling, only half covering the eyeballs, [39]. ►
Eyelids closed, [156]; (after one
hour), [270]. ► Eyelids closed, and the child appeared in
a state of slumber, and, if roused, exhibited a tendency to relapse into
sleep (after eight hours), [223]. ► Lids closed; pupils contracted to a
point; insensible to light; eyes supraverted and divergent (after two
hours), [256]. ► Eyes closed; eyelids swollen; pupils
normal in size, but insensible, [244].
[510.] ►
Eyelids closed; pupils upturned, strongly contracted, and little, if at
all, influenced by light (after one hour), [254]. ► The
eyelids were closed; the patient’s efforts to raise them producing only
short, tremulous contractions, and, when held open by the fingers, the
eyeballs were seen to be turned upwards and a little inwards, from which
position she could move them only to a slight degree and for a short
time (second day), [284]. ► Eyelids spasmodically closed; pupils
contracted to the size of a pin’s point (after three hours), [280]. ►
Lids tightly closed; eyes turned upward, [155].
► The eyebrow droops; the lower
eyelid becomes dark; the eye itself seems to sink and grow dim, [232]. ►
Eyelids, lips, and wings of the nose livid, [232]. ►
Heaviness of the upper lids, as if they were swollen, [119a]. ►
Transient sticking in the left external canthus (after 1 drop), [103]. ►
Cramplike sensation in the right external canthus, [111]. ► Lachrymal
Apparatus. ► Increased
lachrymation (second day), [115a].
► Conjunctiva. [520.] ►
Redness of the conjunctiva (second day), [115a].
► Redness of the conjunctiva of the
ball and lids, with some swelling of the caruncula lachrymalis, [117]. ►
Tunica conjunctiva replete with bloodvessels (after two hours), [205]. ►
Eyes glassy and conjunctiva straw-colored, [281]. ►
Ocular conjunctiva and surface of cornea barely sensitive to touch
(after six hours), [303]. ► Conjunctiva and cornea quite insensible
to touch (after three hours), [305].
► Ball. ►
Eyeballs and eyelids immovable, [151].
► Eyeballs turned upward; pupils
contracted, [267]. ► Eyeballs partially turned upward (after
half an hour), [262]. ► Eyeballs turned up beneath the lids and
fixed; pupils contracted and immovable, [242].
[530.] ►
The eyeballs appeared through their coverings rather prominent; the
pupils were fixed and contracted to the size of a pin’s head (after two
hours and a half), [136]. ► The eyeballs were forced from within
outward (ten minutes after 1 grain), [100a].
► Pressive sensation in the eyeball,
relieved by rubbing and motion, [111].
► Pupil. ►
Pupils greatly dilated, [203], [279]; (after six hours and a half), [334]. ►
*Dilatation of the pupils (after five or six hours), [194]. ►
Pupils easy to dilate, [1]. ► Pupils dilated (first hours), [1]. ►
Pupils of both eyes considerably dilated (after six hours), [124]. ►
Dilated pupils and obscured vision (after a quarter of an hour), [140]. ►
Pupils dilated and insensible to light, [204];
(after one hour and a quarter), [208];
(after thirty minutes), [229];
(after four hours), [275]. [540.] ►
Pupils somewhat dilated (half an hour after 1 grain), [158]. ►
Pupils neither expanded nor dilated, but nearly natural as to size, yet
did not respond to the influence of light, [322]. ► A
slight dilatation of the pupils, [332].
►► *Pupils contracted, [1]; (after 4 to 6 grains), [131], [162];
(after four hours), [154], [181], [183],
etc. ► Pupils contracted; eyes fixed
and totally insensible (after three hours and a half), [288]. ►
Pupils inactive and contracted; no reflex action could be roused in the
eyes or eyelids on admission into hospital; at the time of death the
pupils became very dilated, [287]. ►
Pupils extremely contracted, and did not dilate either in the dark nor
when I rubbed his eyes with my finger (one case), [134]. ►
Pupils extremely contracted, [150],
[168], [197], [219];
(after four hours), [226], [229]. ►
Pupils firmly contracted to the smallest point; surface of cornea and
conjunctiva quite insensible to touch (after seven hours), [296]. ►
Pupils became contracted to a point that could scarcely be seen; at
times the patient could scarcely distinguish objects, [150]. [550.]
► Pupils contracted to a point
(after four hours), [236]; (after
two hours), [250], [294], [316],
[321], etc. ►
Great myosis, the pupils not larger than a pin’s head (after twenty-six
hours and a half), [272]; (after
eight hours), [315], [332], [341].
► Pupils contracted to the size of a
pin’s head, and immovable to the impressions of light; eyes everted,
fixed, and strongly congested; eyelids closed (after one hour and a
half), [257]. ► Pupils turned upwards and outwards;
contracted to the size of a pin’s head, [339].
► Pupils contracted to about half a
line, [155]. ► Pupils contracted and insensible to light
(after one hour), [176]; (after
two hours), [184]; (after seven
hours), [255]. ► *Pupils contracted, fixed (second day), [155], [161].
► Pupils excessively contracted, [201], [214],
[221], [228], etc. ►
Pupils contracted; divergent squint, [268].
► Eyelids half closed; pupils quite
contracted (after two hours and a half), [278].
[560.] ►
Irides immovable; pupils about 1/32 inch in diameter, and cornea
insensible (after one hour and a half), [318].
► Pupils very small, but immovable, [340]. ►
Pupils small; conjunctiva and cornea slightly sensitive to touch (after
two hours and a half), [302]. ► Pupils slightly contracted (after two
hours); firmly contracted (after three hours and a half), [299]. ►
Pupils slightly contracted (after three hours); firmly contracted (after
fourteen hours), [298]. ► Slight contraction of the pupils;
afterwards firm contraction, [304].
► Pupils contracted, but not
completely (after eight hours and a half), [245]. ►
Pupils slightly contracted (after eleven, and twenty hours), [245]. ►
Oscillation of the pupils, [178]. ► Pupils insensible to light, [67]; (after two hours), [175]. ► Vision.
[570.] ►
(Was able to read and write in the evening without his glasses, which
usually he could not do), (sixth day), [235]. ►
Dimness of sight at times, which soon leaves her, and returns again
after a short time (after three days), [155].
► Dimness of vision; he seems to see
through a veil, [66]. ► Dimness of vision while reading in the
forenoon (first day), [110a]. ► Dimness of vision, as from a veil before
the eyes, lasting a quarter of an hour (after two hours and a half), [110a]. ►
Dimness of vision (after 4 to 6 grains), [130];
(one case), [134]; (second day), [273]. ►
Vision obscured, as by a fog, [150].
► Obscuration of vision, [120b]; (one hour after 15 drops), [118]; (one hour after 2 grains), [150], [292].
► Obscuration of vision, so that
while writing the letters seem to swim together, [120b]. ►
Vision indistinct, [119a]. [580.] ►
Unable to see (second day), [284].
► Everything I looked at seemed
increased in volume, [160]. ► All objects seem smaller than usual
(after daily doses of 5 drops), [116a].
► Says she cannot see distinctly, and
“sometimes there are two candles where there should be one”
(second day), [273]. ► Said there was a mist before her eyes and
she could not see (after a quarter of an hour), [282]. ►
Haziness of the eyes, [232]. ► Flickering before the eyes, [171]. ►
It became dark before the eyes, with disappearance of thought, heat of
the head, etc. (after 4 drops), [103].
► While completely conscious he
complained that vision became dark, that he was blind (after four
hours), [98]. [Just before death.
-Hughes.] ► It seems black before the
eyes, with vertigo, [62]. [590.] ►
He thought that flashes of fire came out of his eyes, [27]. [Original revised by Hughes.]
EAR.
►
Pressure toward the external meatus auditorius, [119a]. ►
Jerking within the ears, first in the left, then in the right, [112]. ►
Throbbing in both ears, [112]. ► Hearing. ►
Hearing more acute than usual (after half an hour), [113a]. ► It
was very remarkable that, when the torpor and comatose heaviness were as
such a height, he appeared to have almost no command of any of his
muscles, nor the smallest perception of what was passing around him; his
hearing was nevertheless remarkably acute, and he repeatedly requested
that we would no speak louder than usual, saying that it disturbed him
exceedingly to hear the loud talking, [122].
► Hearing somewhat indistinct, as in
slight intoxication, [119a]. ► Difficulty of hearing in the left ear,
lasting four minutes (after three hours), [110a].
► Hearing so deficient that she could
hardly detect the voice of any one who spoke; yet her own voice sounded
most disagreeably loud to her, [177].
► Difficulty of hearing, [269]. [600.] ►
The hearing remained weaker for some time after the proving, [235a]. ►
*Violent roaring in the ears (sixth day), [235]. ► Great
roaring in the ears, in the evening while sitting still, [119]. ►
Roaring in the ears, [116], [119], [119a].
► Some roaring in the ears, [119]. ►
Dull roaring in the ears after eating (after four hours), [26]. ►
Ringing in the ears, [67], [99]; (eleventh day), [115]. ►
Disagreeable humming in the ears, when talking or whistling, [119a]. ►
Humming in the ears (very soon), [26].
NOSE.
►
One symptom never failed to accompany any attempt to renounce Opium,
viz., violent sternutation. This now became exceedingly troublesome,
sometimes lasting for two hours at a time, and recurring at least two or
three times a day, [231]. [610.] ►
(Violent coryza, with some cough), [114].
[Apparently the result of taking cold from the damp weather, as in other
respects I was perfectly well. -Freud.] ►
Bloody liquid exudes from the nose and mouth during the convulsions, [151]. ►
Copious secretion of mucus from the nose, [232].
► Frothy mucus ejected from the nares
(after four hours), [275]. ► A large quantity of frothy-looking fluid
tinged with arterial blood escaped from the nose (after seven hours and
three-quarters), [306]. ► Stoppage of the nose like stopped
catarrh, in a warm room, after walking in the open air, [3]. ► Great
dryness in the nose, the whole afternoon and evening (after 2 drops), [106]. ►
Sense of smell of impaired that she could perceive no pungency in snuff,
[177].
FACE.
►
Face swollen, skin hot and dry, tongue white, hoarseness, respiration
very much impeded, spitting of blood, [99].
[From Opium taken for incipient cold when in a plethoric state. S. 666,
1271, 1286, 1451, 2250 alll belong to this. -Hughes.] ► Swelling of the face, [151]. [620.]
► Face greatly swollen, and had an
unmeaning ghastly expression, [335].
► Face swollen, violet-colored, like
the rest of the body, [244]. ► Spasmodic motions of the facial muscles
(after seven days), [58]. ► Spasm of the facial muscles, [55]. [With stupor. -Hughes.] ► Muscles of the face affected with spasm,
and those of the limbs with convulsions, [157].
► Convulsive trembling of the facial
muscles, lips, and tongue, [8]. ► Face altered, eyes haggard, cheeks
furrowed, pale, [292]. ► Features distorted, taciturn, with open
eyes, [8]. ► *Features distorted, [149]. ► Face
purple and the features distorted (after fifteen minutes), [208]. [630.]
► *Face bloated, red, and rather livid,
[181]. ►
Countenance bloated (after one hour and three-quarters), [185]. ► Face
bloated and dark, [228]. ► Face much congested, [316]. ►
Distended veins in the face, [75].
► Face full, and the skin of it
having a smooth glassy appearance (second day), [144]. ► Gave
a new air of life and brightness to his face, [121]. ► Wild
and fierce-looking (after a quarter of an hour), [140]. ► Look
horrid (second day), [296]. ► Fixed look, [290]. [640.]
► All the muscles of the face seem
relaxed, which gives the face a stupid expression; the lower lip is
inclined to hang down relaxed, the nostrils are widely opened, and the
upper lid can be raised only with difficulty, [4]. ► He
looks as though he had not slept enough, or had been revelling all
night, with sunken, blinking eyes, [2].
► Countenance presented that peculiar
vacancy or want of definite expression which is characteristic of the
influence of Opium, [197]. ► Countenance vacant, [340]. ►
Countenance looks sickly (after half an hour), [129a]. ► On
awaking, languid and stupid expression to countenance, [206]. ► The
whole expression is that of premature old age, [232]. ►
Somewhat haggard face (after two hours), [247].
► Countenance calm and pale (after
seven hours), [258]. ►► *Face pale, [4]; (after fifty minutes), [129]; (after four hours), [154], [157],
and many others. [650.] ► *Color of the face pale, earthy; eyes weak, full
of water; slumbering with half open eyes, pays attention to nothing,
gives indefinite answers; passed stool involuntarily; sinks down in a
heap, with short anxious respiration, [62]. [Revised by Hughes.] ►
Countenance pale, with an expression of deep and placid repose (after
eight hours), [225]. ► Face sunken, pale, [73]. ►
Paleness of the face and forehead; eyes glassy, fixed, [81]. [Add “fixed.” -Hughes.] ► Pallor, [248],
[332]. ►
Face and lips pale, [150], [190]. ►
Face very pale, [284], [341]. ►
Features shrunk and deathly pale, [239].
► Face pale and cadaverous (after two
hours), [175]. ► Countenance pale and ghastly, [144]. [660.]
► Face white, [164]. ►
Countenance pallid, and bathed in cold perspiration, [242]. ► Face
pallid, [156], [183], [221],
etc. ► Countenance pale and haggard, [222]. ►
The pallor of death was upon the lips, [182].
► Pallid and ghastly expression of
countenance (after four hours), [275].
► Ghastly countenance, though placid
(after one hour), [224]. ► Countenance ghastly, [182], [339].
► Face cadaverous and of a livid
color, cheeks and nose cold, eyes sunken, surrounded by dark circles,
pupils contracted, lids partly open, eyeballs turned upward, [252]. ►
Cadaverous countenance, [148], [174]. [670.]
► Cadaverous appearance (after three
hours and a half), [145]. ► His cadaverous countenance was literally
the aspect of death (after eight hours), [135],
[345]. ►
Face livid and swollen (after twenty or thirty minutes), [209]. ► *Face
livid, [231]; (after
eighteen hours), [226]; (after
half an hour), [278], [316], [323].
► Face pale and livid, [199]; (after six hours), [207]. ► Lips
and face of a livid hue, [148], [174]. ►
Complexion of a dark livid hue, [294].
► The color of the face changing to
the livid (after four hours), [198].
► Countenance livid (after two
hours), [184], [227]; (after seven or eight hours), [289], [322],
[334], [343]. ► Lips
and face of a dark-lead color, [188].
[680.] ►►
*Face flushed (after one hour), [127]; (after 2 or 3 grains), [130]; (after one hour and a half), [273]. ►
Face and neck flushed, [284]. ► Countenance flushed, or rather had a
blotched appearance (after four hours), [201].
► Face began to flush, [206]. ► Face
red (second day), [178]. ► Great redness of the face, with burning
heat of the body, lasting eight hours; followed by convulsive throwing
about of the right arm and foot, loud cries, difficult respiration,
coldness of the face and hands, that are covered with drops of
perspiration (soon after a dose), [1].
► Unusual redness of the face, with
swollen lips, [41]. ► Face dark red, [92]. [Not mentioned by Vicat. -Hughes.] ► Face completely red, [62]. ► Face
entirely red, with wild and protruding red eyes, [85]. [690.] ► Face at first was glowing; he felt a
strong pulsation in the arteries of the head (one case), [134]. ►
Frequent, alternations of redness and paleness of the face, [1]. ►
Paleness of the face and nausea, with a sensation of sleepiness and
diminution of all secretions and excretions, frequently even of the
perspiration, [88]. ► Face red and eyes red and inflamed, [49]. ►
Face red, turgid, [213]. ► Face not only red, but seeming to be
inflamed, [43]. ► The face became red and the head hot
(after 4 drops), [103]. ► Face and eyes red, [17]. ► Face
red, puffy, with injected bloodvessels in the head, [47]. ► Face
red, puffy, swollen, [66]. [Omit
Muller. -Hughes.] [700.]
► Withered, yellow countenance, [192], [281].
► The color of the face became
yellowish during and after the proving, [118].
► Complexion yellowish, [14]. ►
Sallow complexion, [212], [232]. ►
Face bluish, earthy, [33], [75]. ►
Face leaden-colored, with blue lines, [268].
► Face purple, and the features
distorted (after a quarter of an hour), [210].
► Countenance purplish, [266]. ►
Face of a dark-purple hue, as were also his hands and feet (after
fifteen hours), [264]. ► Face of a dark-purplish hue (after eight
hours), [315]. [710.] ►
Countenance dark and ghastly (after six hours), [127]. ► Face
cherry-brown, [83]. ► Countenance of a dark or dusky hue, [278]. ►
Dark suffusion of the countenance, [311].
► Dark suffusion of the countenance, [232]. ►
Face of a dusky hue (after one hour and a half), [318]. ► Black
in the face (next morning), [313].
► The face seemed swollen, [89], [99].
[Revised by Hughes.] ► Lips. ► Lower lip, towards the right corner of
the mouth, swollen and hard, with excoriation of the mucous membrane
(possibly caused by biting the lips), [135].
► Cracked lips, [232]. [720.]
► Lips distorted, [157]. ► Lips
pallid (after two hours), [256]. ► Lips, eyelids, and nails livid, [295]. ►
Lips and nails livid (after three hours), [305];
(after two hours and a half), [310].
► *Lips livid (after one hour
and a half), [200]; (after two
hours), [250]; (after one hour and
a half), [257]; (after three hours
and a half), [302], [325]; (after thirty-five minutes), [337], [341].
► Lividity of lips and eyelids, [212]; (after three hours), [300]. ►
Lips somewhat livid, [242]; (after
three hours), [300]. ► Lips, and especially the lower one,
slightly blue and swelled, [286]. ► Lips purple (after six hours), [207]. ►
The lower lip is painful when touched by the upper teeth or finger, [4]. ►
Jaws and Chin. [730.] ► Sudden trembling of the lower jaw,
lasting five minutes (third day), [113].
► Tetanic spasm of the lower jaw, [11]. [Omit Pyl. -Hughes.] ► Lower jaw protruded, tremulous, [268]. ►
The lower jaw hangs down, [54]. ► *Lower jaw fallen (after seven
hours), [202]; (after one hour and
a half), [240]. ► Spasmodic dropping of lower jaw (after
thirty-five minutes), [337]. ► Jaw somewhat fallen (after seventeen
hours), [247]. ► Lower jaw dropped, mouth open (after six
hours and a half), [218]. ► Jaws became firmly fixed, requiring force
to get in the stomach-pump, [286].
► Jaws firmly shut (after twenty or
thirty minutes), [209]. [740.] ►
Jaws rigid, [211]. ► Violent trismus (after a quarter of an
hour), [140]. ► Jaws tightly closed, as in trismus, when
free from the spasmodic action, [199].
► Lower jaw dropped and fixed, [156]. ►
Kept her jaws locked (second day), [144].
► Pressure in the articulation of the
jaws and bones of the cheeks, [119a].
► Pain in the upper jaw (after eight
hours), [1]. ►
Violent pains in the lower jaw, rapid and momentary (after seven days), [58]. [Revised by Hughes.] ► Acute stitches in the jaws, especially in
the region of the condyles (first day), [235].
► Confused feeling in the left side
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