PLUMBUM.
HEAD.
►
Vertigo. ► Vertigo, [20], [21],
[47], [56], etc. [220.]
► Vertigo, almost immediately;
everything seemed to tremble and whirl before her, [268]. ►
Vertigo, immediately, [274]. ► Frequent vertigo, [28]. ►
Vertigo, and intoxication in the head, [46].
► Vertigo, on stooping or on looking
up (eighth day), [5]. ► Vertigo and convulsions, [326]. ► An
attack of vertigo, of short duration, [384].
► One patient had vertigo and
convulsions several times, [266]. ► Often suddenly seized with slight attacks
of vertigo, [492]. ► Frequent dizziness (second day), [268]. [230.]
► A dizzy feeling, vanishing in the
open air (after two hours and three-quarters), [4]. ► Attacks
of giddiness, [566], [567]. ►
Giddiness frequently, when stooping, [269].
► General Head. ► Trembling of the head, [92]. ► Head
turned to the right, its rotation to the left being prevented by
paralysis of the sterno-cleido-mastoid muscle of that side, [114]. ►
Heaviness of the head, [429],
[449], [479], [483],
[485], [486]. ►
Heaviness of the whole head, especially in the occiput, with slight
stitches in the sinciput (after two hours), [2]. ►
Heaviness of the head; it falls forward (after two hours and a half), [4]. ►
Heaviness in the whole head, except in the occiput, with slow stitches
in the sinciput, [2]. ► Heaviness of the head; it falls forward
(after two hours and a half), [4].
► Heaviness in the whole head, except
in the occiput, with slow stitches in the sinciput, [2]. ► Head
heavy, without real pain, [533]. [240.] ►
Weight in the head (second day), [100].
► Excessive heaviness of the head, [466]. ►
Dulness of the head, [46]. ► Head dull, dizzy, soon, [112]. ► Head
dull and confused, [339]. ► Head dull and heavy, while standing
(after half an hour), gradually disappearing, [4]. ► Great
dulness of the head, a kind of mixture of dulness and dimness of mind,
so that he frequently rubbed the forehead with the hand (first hours), [2]. ►►
Headache, [9], [49], [93],
[154]. ►
Violent headache, [7], [111], [364],
[496], [505], [511].
► Excruciating headache, [537]. [250.]
► Violent headache, with vomiting, [237]. ►
Violent headaches, with vomiting, frequently repeated, sometimes every
two or three days, [235]. ► Terrible cephalalgia; it seemed to the
patient that if it continued he would lose his reason, [573]. ►
Severe headache, with vertigo, and sensation of intoxication, [402]. ►
After this he has a very severe and long-lasting headache; for fifteen
days it has been almost constant, [530].
► Severe and persistent headache, all
over the head, so bad as to prevent sleep, [508]. ►
Rather severe headache, [396]. ► The patient was attacked with violent
headache, confusion of mind, during which he answered slowly, and seemed
to have lost his memory; fell asleep in the evening; soon woke dizzy and
with mental dulness, that gradually developed into a comatose condition,
and was followed by death, [581].
[The heart was fatty, the walls thicker and paler than normal. The
capsule of the kidney was found adherent to its substance; the kidney
showed interstitial inflammation, with fatty degeneration. The brain was
softened.] ► Habitual headache, [513]. ►
Frequent headache, especially on waking, in the morning, [514]. [260.]
► Frequent headache, [483], [527].
► Headache, for two months, [535]. ►
Frequent attacks of cephalalgia and vertigo, [373]. ►
Severe cephalalgia, [279]. ► Headache, with obscuration of vision and
tendency to sleepiness, [429]. ► Headache, with anxiety, extending to the
forehead, with dim vision, contracted pupils, [237]. ►
Violent shooting headache, [274]. ► Slight headache anteriorly in the left
parietal bone (after one hour), [4].
► Headache and inappetency, [385]. ►
Violent pressive headache, so that the patient could not hold the head
up, [354]. [270.] ►
Pressure beneath the skull, as from rush of blood to the head, [5]. ►
Dull headache, [555]. ► Violent pain and heaviness of the head,
with confusion of mind, [95]. ► Very severe pains in the head, [171], [259],
[450]. ►
Contractive pain in the head and cheek (from local application), [83]. ►
Severe pain in the head, especially in the occipital region, [560]. ►
Laceration pain in the upper part of the head, recurring at intervals,
like those of the face, worse by paroxysms, and somewhat ameliorated by
pressure, [134]. ► Pains in the cranial bones and in other
flat bones, [383]. ► Rather severe left-sided hemicrania,
extending to the same side of the face, with aggravation at night, [528]. ►
Stitches here and there in the head, especially in the right ear, very
violent in the afternoon and evening, [4].
[280.] ►
Head symptoms relieved by hot-air baths, [492].
► Forehead. ► Sensation of heaviness in the forehead,
soon vanishing, after the morning soup, [4].
► Frontal headache, [140], [330],
[466], [479], [481],
[518]. ►
A very severe headache, especially in the frontal and parietal regions,
comes on immediately after each attack of colic, [127]. ► Much
frontal headache, [153]. ► Frontal headache, worse by paroxysms,
with feeling of dislocation, [168].
► Frontal headache, with heaviness of
the head, [489]. ► Headache in the forehead and temples,
especially on the left side, [472].
► Headache in forehead and temples, [471]. ►
Dull headache in the forehead, with tearing in the nape of the neck, [4]. [290.]
► Violent pains in the forehead
(first day), [274]. ► When asked where he feels pain, he says
it is in the head, especially the forehead, [201]. ►
Shooting pains across the forehead, with pressing pain, [269]. ►
Tearing back and forth in the forehead (after two hours and a quarter), [4]. ►
Headache; tearing in the forehead, with heat in the head and redness,
without external heat, lasting a few minutes; in the afternoon, [4]. ►
Sensation of tearing and contraction in the forehead (after six hours), [4]. ►
Tearing in the middle of the forehead, slowly increasing, frequently
intermitting (after two hours), [4].
► Pressure in the forehead, rather
externally (second evening), [4]. ► Sticking in the brain, in the forehead
(after six hours), [4]. ► A small fine stitch in the left frontal
eminence (after two hours), [4]. [300.] ► Frequent stitches in the right frontal
eminence (after two hours and a half), [4].
► Slight heavy pain in the forepart
of the head, [126]. ► Temples. ►
Hard throbbing of the temporal arteries, [126].
► Temples throbbing, [276]. ►
Temples felt compressed, as if in a vice, and she experienced cruel
lancinating pains there, [268]. ► Constant constriction and twitchings in
the temples (second day), [268]. ► Sensation of “clucking” in the
left temporal region, extending to the ear, [451]. ►
Tearing in the right temporal region (after two hours), [4]. ► Tearing
sticking in the left temple (after two hours), [4]. ► Tearing
in the right temple, then in the right ear (after one hour), [2]. [310.]
► Dull sticking pain in the right
temporal region, that was also sore externally (first day), [3]. ►
Twitching in the right temple (after one hour and a half), [4]. ►
Parietals. ► Very violent
pain in the left side of the head, [95].
► Violent pains in left side of head,
[133]. ►
Violent sticking and beating in the right side of the head, while
walking and standing, in the forenoon, [4].
► Sticking inward in the upper part
of the right parietal bone, [4]. ► Sticking and tearing in the upper part of
the right parietal bone (after five hours and a half), [4]. ► Occiput.
► Sensation of heaviness in the
occiput, as if its weight were increased, [5].
► Violent headache in the occiput,
extending to the ears and temples, dull, pressive, commencing while
asleep, so that the patient frequently rose from bed, walked about the
room, holding his head with both hands, and as soon as the pain was
somewhat relieved, lay down again to catch a short nap, [339]. ►
Headache partly in the occiput, at times extending as far forward as the
forehead, [235]. [320.] ►
Dull pains in the back of the head, extending from the spine upwards, [285]. ►
Pressure in the occiput forward towards the forehead, with a feeling as
if the eyes would close with heaviness, disappearing on standing up
(after one hour), [4]. ► Violent stitches in the sinciput, lasting
a long time, at 9 P.M., [4]. ► External Head. ►
(The hair becomes remarkably fatty; formerly it has always been very
dry), (curative action), (first day), [2].
EYE.
►
Objective. ► Eyes swollen,
painful, [35]. ► Eyes wide open, fixed, and hard, [173]. ►
Eyes wide open and fixed, [181], [186]. ►
Sometimes the eyes are half open, sometimes kept wide open, but
generally they are closed; when opened, they are wild-looking or fixed,
looking nowhere in particular, [201].
► Generally a fixed look, [153], [566].
► Eyes fixed, and at times
wild-looking, [195]. [330.] ►
Eyes staring, [360]. ► Eyes wild and rolling, [315]. ► Eyes
wild, [186]. ►
Eyes rather wild, [188]. ► Eyes at times wild and shiny, [499]. ►
Eyes glistening and protruding, [248].
► Eyes brilliant, and projecting from
their orbits (after one hour), [256].
► Left eye quite transparent; iris
slightly contracted by artificial light, [168].
► Eyes unnaturally prominent, [562]. ►
Protruding eyes, [235], [253]. [340.]
► Eyes hollow, and surrounded by blue
rings, [122]. ► Eyes hollow and quite dim, [120]. ► Eyes
sunken, [240], [278], [432].
► Eyes hollow, and surrounded by blue
rings, [176]. ► Blue color around eyes, the rest of the
face having a decided dingy-yellow color, [222].
► Blue rings around the eyes, which
are somewhat sunken, [519]. ► *Hypopium, [43]. ►
Convulsive twitching of the muscles of the eyes and in the hands, [575]. ►
Frightful distortion of the eyes, [56].
► Twitching of both eyes (after two
hours and three-quarters), [4]. [350.] ►
Squinting, [168], [432]. ►
Strabismus; one eye turned in toward the nose, and he could not roll it
out; the external muscle of the eye was paralyzed; he could see
distinctly as ever with either eye separately, but when he looked with
both the object appeared double, [304].
► Eyes dull, [534]. ► Eyes
large and red, [133]. ► Inflammation of the eyes (fourth day), [49]. ►
Rush of blood into the eye (sixth day), [5].
► Livid color of the eyes, especially
of the inner canthi, [11]. ► Fundus oculi black, [168], [169],
[178], [189], [201].
► *Sclerotica yellow, [519]. ►
Yellow color of the eyes, [326].
[360.] ►
White of his eyes quite yellow, [282]. ► Eyes
slightly jaundiced, [316].
► Sclera dirty-bluish gray, [575]. ►
Yellow tinge of sclerotica, [512].
► Sclerotica somewhat jaundiced,
[508]. ►
Slight icteric color of the sclerotic, [541]. ► Eyes
constantly shut; although the lids were kept somewhat apart by a
stiffness of the muscles, they were not in the least paralyzed, [189]. ►
Neuritis optici; papilla swollen (examination after death showed
interstitial hyperplasia of connective tissue; the sheaths of the optic
nerves were distended by fluid; the cerebro-spinal fluid was greatly
increased; the brain-substance anæmic, and the gray portion yellowish),
[536]. ►
“Cirsophthalmia;” a varicose enlargement of the bloodvessels
of the cornea, extending like a thick network to the centre, and causing
complete obscuration of it, [43].
[From four months external use of Extractum saturni, in three ounces of
rosewater, for taraxis.] ►
Ophthalmoscopic examination between the paroxysms showed that the disk
was prominent, its outline hazy, its color an opaque bluish-white,
the sclerotic ring not visible, and the vessels diminished in calibre.
Beyond anæmia of the brain-substance, and a marked increase of
cerebro-spinal fluid, there were no marked eye changes found in the
brain; the sheaths of the optic nerves were distended; microscopic
examination showed numerous capillary vessels throughout the swollen
disk, and a moderate development of the nuclei of the connective tissue;
there were none of the spindle-shaped swellings of the nerve-fibres
found in the former case, [535]. [370.] ►
Neuritis op.; with normal field, diminished acuteness of
vision, with a central scotoma and persistent flickering, [431]. ►
Subjective. ► Heaviness on
moving the eyes and pain in the internal muscle, extending backward
(first day), [3]. ► Sensation of pricking in the eyes, [484]. ►
Eyes fatigued, [221]. ► Sticking pain in the left eye, [95]. ►
Burning in the right eye, as though tobacco were in it (after two
hours), [4]. ► Brow and Orbit. ►
Much hair falls from the eyebrows, [3].
► Supraorbital headache (after one
hour), [268]. ► Pressive pain above the eyes, on moving
them, lasting several days, [3]. ► Feeling of fulness and weight, together
with excruciating pain, in the orbits, [198].
[380.] ►
Sense of fulness and heaviness, together with excruciating pain, in the
orbits, [186]. ► Weight above the orbits, [474]. ►
Supraorbital pain (second day), [268].
► Lids. ►
Eyelids red (second day), [2]. ► The eyelids became excessively swollen
and sensitive, [235]. ► Lids agglutinated by thick yellow mucus, [177]. ►
Upper eyelid droops very much, [182].
► Twitching of the right upper lid
(after one hour), [4]. ► Violent closing of the lids, as if the
eye were placed in a press, [11]. ► Complete paralysis and insensibility of
the lids, [11]. [390.] ►
Ciliary neuralgia of the right side, followed by dulness of vision, [447]. ►
Heaviness of the lids, [221], [339]. ►
Contraction in the eyes, especially in the lids, [11]. ►
Sensation as if something were under the lids, and as if the eyeball
were too large, an acute pressive sensation, [3]. ► Tearing
in eyelids, with sleepiness, after soup, in the morning (after
three-quarters of an hour), [4]. ► Itching of the canthus of the left eye,
and pain, as from rubbing, [5]. ► Itching on the left upper lid provokes
scratching, which relieves (after a quarter of an hour), [4]. ► Lachrymal
Apparatus. ► Profuse
discharge of acrid corrosive tears, that contract the skin, [49]. ►
Profuse acrid lachrymation, with diminished vision, [11]. ►
Profuse lachrymation, without any other affection of the eye, [117]. [400.] ►
Profuse white watery discharge from the eyes, without inflammation or
any other complaint of the parts; this discharge shortly became thicker
and agglutinated the lids, so that he had to moisten them in order to
open his eyes; in the morning, [138].
► Conjunctiva. ► Conjunctiva suffused with blood, [237]. ►
Effusion of apparently coagulated blood under the conjunctivæ (fourth
day), [246]. ►
The conjunctiva of the left eye became suffused with blood, [235]. ►
Conjunctiva œdematous, [433]. ► Conjunctiva pale, [437]. ► The
conjunctiva is bloodless, [356]. ► Conjunctiva sallow, [547]. ►
Conjunctiva somewhat jaundiced, [167], [182],
[399], [400], [401].
► Slight jaundiced color of the
conjunctiva and skin, [344]. [410.] ►
Conjunctiva of a well-marked livid yellow color, observed nowhere else, [175]. ►
Conjunctiva yellow, [119], [166], [183],
[184], [451], [485],
[566]. ►
Slight yellowness of conjunctiva, [137],
[160], [170], [450],
[538]. ►
Conjunctiva dingy yellow, [222]. ► Conjunctiva dingy yellow, with a shade of
blue, [120]. ►
Dingy yellow hue of the conjunctiva and of the skin of the face and
entire body, [215]. ► Conjunctiva of a well-marked dingy yellow
hue, [203]. ►
The conjunctiva shows this dingy yellow color very decidedly, and here
it is usually blended with a well-marked bluish tinge, [117]. ►
Conjunctiva dry, [575]. ► Ball. ►
Pains shooting through the eyeballs on closing the lids firmly (second
day), [100]. [420.] ►
Jerking tearing in the left eyeball, in the forenoon, [4]. ►
Muscular spasms of right eyeball, [486].
► A violent stitch, with burning,
beneath the left eyeball, at 2 P.M., [4].
► Pupil. ►
Pupils strongly dilated, yet the iris contracts, and vision is
unimpaired, [181]. ► Pupils strongly contracted; iris
insensible to a bright light, [198].
► Pupil widely dilated, and
insensible to artificial light; fundus oculi black, [197]. ►
Pupils strongly dilated; insensible to light, [261]. ► Both
pupils excessively dilated, but in different degrees, and unequally
throughout their respective circumferences, [178]. ► Pupils
exceedingly dilated, [173],
[290], [562], [581].
► Pupils strongly dilated, but
irregular in their entire circumference; they do not contract near a
bright light, [177]. [430.] ►
Pupils, especially the right pupil, so much dilated, that only a trace
of the iris was visible. A lighted candle had no effect on them at a
distance of four or five inches, but when brought to within half an
inch, the iris was seen to contract slightly, especially the left iris,
and the lids made some efforts to close, [189].
► Left pupil more dilated than the
right, [528]. ► Pupil of right eye considerably dilated;
iris absolutely immovable, [168]. ► Left pupil dilated, till the iris is
almost invisible; it does not contract under artificial light, [169]. ►
Right pupil dilates and contracts somewhat under the influence of light,
and there is some power of vision in the right eye, [169]. ►
Pupils uneven, the left one rather more than the right, [509]. ►
Pupils moderately dilated, [188], [227]. ►
Dilated pupils, [234], [361], [439].
► The pupils are dilated, sometimes
closed, [305]. ► Dilatation of left pupil less in degree,
and unequal all around, so that the pupil is no longer circular, [168]. [440.]
► The pupils seem at first
spasmodically contracted, unnaturally small, afterwards they become much
dilated, insensible, paralyzed, and are not at all contracted by the
light, [20]. ►
Pupils contracted, and only slow of reaction, [511]. ►
Pupils quite contracted, but sensitive to light, [170]. ►
Pupils contracted, [517]. ► Pupils insensible to light, [439]. ►
Vision. ► In the left eye
acuteness of vision was normal; by the right fingers were counted at
only 1 1/2 meter (instead of 70, normal); ophthalmoscopic examination
showed very greatly dilated veins in the fundus of the left eye, no
neuritis optici, visual acuteness of the right eye 5/20, perception of
color very feeble; field of vision very greatly limited, 20 degrees from
the point of fixation, [498]. ► Sight and hearing have always been better
on the right side than on the left, [482].
► Diplopia, [308], [577].
► The shortsightedness increases, [3]. ►
(Shortsightedness diminished, with general increased vigor, in the
forenoon, when walking in the open air), [3].
[450.] ►
Dimness of sight, [100],
[473], [485], etc. ►
Sometimes dimness before the eyes, without noise in the ears, [168]. ►
Impaired vision of the right eye, [481],
[487], [488]. ►
Dimness of vision, especially of the right eye, [476]. ►
Impaired sight, [483]. ► Dimness of vision almost immediately, and
second day, [268]. ► Very dim vision; cannot recognize
persons, even at a short distance (for a few days), [517]. ►
Dimness of vision, coming on in the following manner: He feels a
weakness in all the limbs; at the same time there is a roaring in the
ears, and an appearance before the eyes like falling snow or showers of
fire; he almost loses consciousness, and has to lean against something
to prevent falling. This occurs from twice to six times daily (generally
two or three times in twenty-four hours), [530].
► Weakness of sight, [433], [521].
► Sight weak; some diplopia of right
eye, which is also affected by external strabismus, [529]. [460.]
► Diminished sight and hearing,
followed by complete amaurosis, that however, gradually disappeared, [95]. ►
Vision dim and confused, [188]. ► Vision indistinct, [170]. ► Can
hardly distinguish light from darkness with the left eye, which looks
quite sound, [169]. ► Sight became weak in one, [266]. ►
Vision became imperfect, [271]. ► Vision dim and veiled, double, [339]. ►
Complains of obscure vision and a strange uncomfortable feeling, [384]. ►
Diminished vision; the ophthalmoscope showed venous congestion, with
sinuosities of the bloodvessels, [498].
► Vision became feeble, [498]. [470.]
► Could not see anything distinctly;
objects appeared double, except when she was close to them, [457]. ►
He does not see as well with the left eye as with the right; objects at
a certain distance seem double or triple, [471].
► Vision diminished to 1/8; the
visual field was not diminished; optic papilla normal, though the veins
were greatly dilated with blood, [447].
[This amblyopia recurred after about a year, and was cured by tartar
emetic and leeches.] ► Amaurotic
weakness of vision, [326]. ► Complete and sudden loss of vision
succeeded an attack of most violent headache and colic, [96]. ► Sudden
loss of vision, with headache, with sensitive pupils; after a few
minutes the patient was able to count the fingers; this was associated
with wide open staring eyes; the upper lids seemed drawn far above the
upper corneal margin; on attempting to use the ophthalmoscope the
patient became very restless and anxious, rolled the eyeballs, spoke
unintelligibly, and tried to get out of bed; this was followed by an
epileptiform spasm, with complete unconsciousness, [420]. ► The
patient suddenly lost the power of distinguishing objects about him, and
for a short time could not see the light; this sudden loss of vision was
followed by a sudden paralytic spasm, with loss of consciousness; on the
next day the sight partly returned, so that the patient was able to see
as through a fog, and for five days the sight gradually improved; on the
sixth day there was again sudden loss of vision, this time without
headache and without subsequent convulsions, [94]. ► Loss of
vision, [56], [186], [227].
► Sudden loss of vision during or
succeeding the attacks of lead colic has been noticed by many observes
(Plater, Smetius, Schrock, Nebillius, and others), [96]. ►
Eclampsia, consequent upon uræmic poisoning, with albuminous urine, [434]. [480.]
► Amaurosis, [12], [21],
[23], [42], [584].
► Amaurosis and deafness were
complications of motor paralysis in only six cases out of one hundred
and two, [117]. ► Blindness, [20].
► Blindness (effects of large doses),
[28]. ►
Transparency of the organ perfectly preserved; sight completely
destroyed, [168]. ► Dazzling before the eyes, [472], [476],
[522]. ►
Cloudiness of vision, [483]. ► Vision as through a fog, with contracted
pupils and leaden colored sclerotics, [235].
► Was frequently obliged to wipe the
eyes; it seems as though there were a dimness in them; for half an hour,
[3]. ►
Sensation as of a cloud before the eyes; objects seem indistinct (after
one hour), [4]. [490.] ► A
cloud before the left eye, with agglutination of both eyes, in the
morning and evening (third day), [4].
► When his arm was fixed he used to
feel dull, and had a mist before his eyes, [563]. ►
Constant cloud about the eyes (after two hours and three-quarters), [4]. ►
Everything before the eyes seemed to tremble and to turn in a circle,
immediately, [274]. ► He sees only half of the objects he
regards (in a painter; disappeared along with the colic), [313]. ► Small
yellow spots before the left eye, which cover what is looked at; he
distinguishes near objects no better than distant ones, though at a
certain distance things seem to jump, [168].
► Everything seems yellow, [258]. ►
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