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

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EAR.

►
Tension in the region of the right ear and the corresponding cervical
muscles (after two hours and a half), [4].
► Right arm painful; sensitive to
pressure; lancinations from the shoulder towards the bend of the elbow, [486]. [500.] ►
Tearing in the region of the right ear, after dinner, [4]. ► A fine
stitch extending into the lobule of the right ear (after one hour), [4]. ►
Boring in the right ear, after dinner, [4].
► Transient pains within the left ear
and in the meatus auditorius, [3].
► Tearing deep in the right ear
(after half an hour), [4]. ► Tearing deep in the left ear (after two
hours and a half), [4]. ► Sticking tearing within the right ear,
whence it extends to the concha (after three-quarters of an hour), [4]. ►
Sticking in the right ear, while standing, in the forenoon, [4]. ►
Scratching in the right ear, as from a spear of grain (after a quarter
of an hour), [4]. ► Hearing. ►
Great sensitiveness to slight noise, [96].
[510.] ►
Hearing, which for some time has been entirely lost in the right ear, is
to-day duller than usual, [476]. ► Difficult hearing and numbness, [20]. ►
Dulness of hearing since exposure to cold, [269]. ► Very
hard of hearing, especially on the right side, [527]. ►
Frequent sudden, transient diminution of hearing, in the evening, [4]. ►
Impaired hearing in right ear, [488].
► Hearing much diminished on the left
side, [528]. ►
Weakness of hearing, [433], [483]. ►
Difficulty of hearing, [429]. ► Hardness of hearing in right ear, [481]. [520.]
► Hard of hearing in the left side, [450]. ►
Partial deafness, [134]. ► Deafness of right ear, [487]. ►
Deafness, especially on the right ear, worse at times, [471]. ►
Vanishing of hearing, [56]. ► Almost constant roaring in the meatus
auditorius, [134]. ► Roaring in the left ear, [485], [528].
► Roaring in right ear; seldom in the
left, [486]. ►
Roaring in the ears, returning every evening, and causing slight
deafness, [474]. ► Roaring in the ears (second day), [274], [478],
[483]. [530.]
► Whizzing and humming in the ears
(second day), [288]. ► Ringing in the ears, [476].
   

NOSE.

►
Objective.
► Erysipelatous
inflammation of the nose, [3]. ► Sneezing (after seven hours), [4]. ►
Constant irritation and ineffectual sneezing (after three-quarters of an
hour), [4]. ►
Hæmorrhage from the nose during the convulsions, [429]. ►
Habitual and profuse epistaxis, [511].
► Nosebleed with the second attack of
spitting blood, [463]. ► Frequent bleeding of the nose, [237]. [540.]
► Frequent copious epistaxis, [235]. ►
Oozing of blood from the nostrils (fourth day), [246]. ►
Fluent coryza, with watery mucus, soon disappearing (after
three-quarters of an hour), [4]. ► Fluent coryza without sneezing (third and
fourth days), [2]. ► Fluent coryza, in the afternoon, lasting
an hour, [4]. ► Water runs from the nose, during dinner, [4]. ►
Much tenacious mucus in the nose, that he, however, cannot blow out, is
only able to draw it backward through the posterior nares, where most of
it seems to be accumulated (second day), [2].
► Mucous membrane of the nose dry, [575]. ►
Subjective.
► Stoppage of
the nose, [5], [450]. ►
Sensation of stoppage in the nose, she is unable to blow it (third day),
[4]. [550.]
► Pain in the tip of the nose, [3]. ►
Sharp drawing pain in the right ala of the nose, and in the upper lip, [305]. ►
Painful tearing in the septum of the nose in the right side (after five
hours), [4]. ►
Itching of the left nostril, relieved by scratching, in the afternoon, [4]. ►
Smell.
► Very bad odor
from the right nostril, much less from the left, [497]. ►
Horrible smell, [28]. [Effect of
large doses.] ► Sense of smell almost
lost in the right nostril; less diminished in the left, [523]. ► Loss
of smell, [39].
   

FACE.

►
Countenance wild looking, [197]. ► Frequent sardonic smiling, [190]. [560.]
► Look confused, [35]. ► During
the colicky attacks, the face was expressive of the utmost anxiety, [213]. ►
Most anxious countenance (after five hours), [107]. ► *Face
expressive of extreme anxiety and suffering
, [209]. ►
Countenance anxious and sunken, frequently of a peculiar livid hue, [267]. ►
Peculiar anxious and distressed countenance, [302]. ► Face
haggard, skin yellow, sclerotic coat of a yellowish tinge, [583]. ►
*Anxious expression
, [73],
[113], [240], etc. ►
Melancholy expression; he seems aware of his situation, and to be
silently imploring pity, [174]. ► Expression sad and melancholic, [340]. [570.]
► Languid look and woe-begone
countenance, [318]. ► He has a heavy stupid aspect, [356]. ►
The face has a very stupid expression, [182],
[195]. ►
Expression of the face quite peculiar, almost stupid, [153]. ►
Astonished stupid look; patient appears as if ecstatic; risus
sardonicus; the patient has a sad, melancholy look, and weeps. Patient
gives no satisfactory answer as to the state of his expression, [305]. ►
Face stupid, [509]. ► Expression rather dull, [170]. ►
Aspect vacant and stupid, [360]. ► Expression of face and eyes decidedly
dull, [200]. ►
The expression was of dull, heavy, unremitting pain, [446]. [580.]
► Countenance expressive of pain, [98]. ►
Countenance entirely changed, and expressive only of extreme pain, which
even prevents him from answering when spoken to; the application to his
abdomen of a vessel of hot water is scarcely felt, [214]. ► The
whole expression of the child was that of one suffering from pressure
upon the brain, [432]. ► Features almost immovable, except during
the paroxysms of colic, when they express the most acute suffering, [182]. ►
Features almost entirely immovable, [181].
► Features perceptibly sunken, [174]. ►
During the paroxysms the face is shrunken; he lies on his belly crying
out sometimes, [225]. ► During the paroxysms the face is a little
shrunken, and he is somewhat restless in bed, [221]. ►
Countenance shrunken and distorted, [120].
► Face sunken (after a few hours), [112], [220].
[590.] ►
Countenance fallen, [70]. ► Expression of face extremely altered, [111]. ►
Face pinched and distorted, during the paroxysm, [215]. ► Face
wrinkled, [215]. ► His face horribly contracted, was
expressive of extreme agony, [217].
► Features somewhat contracted, [133]. ►
Features strongly contracted, [122].
► Contracted features (tenth day), [240]. ►
The left side of the face is fixed and devoid of expression, [562]. [600.] ►
Features drawn, [235]. ► Features fixed, [509]. ►
Rather astonished expression of face, [188].
► The features are sharp and pinched,
[356]. ►
Fatigued expression of countenance, [152].
► Expression of suffering, idiotic, [433]. ►
Long, shrivelled face, [466]. ► Pasty, lustreless look about the face, [445]. ►
Countenance haggard, [315]. ► Peculiar and indescribable expression of
countenance, [173]. ► Face red (after four hours), [274]. [610.]
► Face red, with a slight shade of
yellow, [126]. ► Countenance florid, warm, and moist, [97]. ►
Face somewhat flushed, [140]. ► Face slightly red, with a tinge of dingy
yellow, [203]. ► Flushed dusky countenance (two very
dark), [277]. ► Face, usually pale, is this evening
rather flushed; she has some fever; skin hot; pulse 98, [519]. ► Face
red and turgid, [248]. ► Face turgid, with violent pulsating in
the carotids (apparently the results of violent efforts to vomit),
(after a quarter of an hour), [257].
► Face dusky, [276]. ► Livid
complexion, [234], [240]. [620.]
► Dingy lead-colored skin of the face
and body, [133]. ► Face meagre, livid, wrinkled; he looks
prematurely old, [142]. ► Livid skin of the face, lips, gums, and
even of the whole body, [92]. ► Slight, livid yellowness of face, [196]. ►►
Complexion sallow
, [232],
[255], [373], [460].
► He was of a sallow unhealthy
aspect, [439]. ►► Sallow pale face, [556], [558].
► Sallow haggard countenance, [428]. ►
Sallow and cachectic looking, [351].
► All have sallow complexions and
discolored sclerotics
, [584].
[630.] ►
Face of a well-marked dirty yellow color, [174].
► Face of a dirty gray color, [152]. ►
Very decided livid yellowness of the face and conjunctiva, [173]. ►
Very decided dirty-yellow complexion, [181],
[209]. ►
Face of a decided ashen-yellow color, [183],
[194]. ►
Marked dingy yellowness of the skin of the face, [208]. ► Skin
of face and body of a decided dingy-yellow; face all wrinkled, [214]. ►
Deep-yellow cachectic complexion, [523].
► Face livid yellow, [193]. ► Face
livid yellow, and somewhat emaciated, [145].
[640.] ►
Face of a decided yellow hue, and expressive of pain and anxiety,
especially shown by violent spasmodic contractions of the features, when
the colic paroxysms are coming on, [125a].
► Complexion decidedly
grayish-yellow, [182]. ► Complexion yellow, [190], [201],
[514]. ►
Yellowness of face and eyes, [186].
► Complexion like yellow wax, [170]. ►
Yellowish, cachectic-looking complexion, [517].
► Becomes yellow principally at
night, [513]. ► Face spotted with yellow, [544]. ► Face
yellowish gray, somewhat puffy, [420].
► Face yellow, and somewhat
contracted, [188]. [650.] ►
Dingy yellow complexion, [161], [180], [185],
[139]. ►
Complexion a little tinged with dingy yellow, [130]. ► Dingy
yellow hue of the face and body, [120],
[150], [167], [198].
► Slight dingy yellow color of the
face and body, [121], [136]. ►
Dirty gray yellow complexion, [184],
[331]. ►
Grayish-yellow complexion, [166]. ► Lemon colored complexion, [132]. ► Face
rather yellowish, [189]. ► Complexion dull yellow, [515]. ► Face
of a very light ashen-yellow hue, [137].
[660.] ►
Face pale yellow, [218]. ► Complexion of little yellow, [125], [160].
► Complexion somewhat tinged with
dingy-yellow, as also the surface of the body, in a less degree, [119]. ►
Complexion dull and yellowish, [243].
► Cachectic complexion, [468], [469],
[471], [483]. ► Face
pale and eyes sunken, immediately, [116].
► Most of the girls lost the color of
health from their faces; they became pale, puffy, and dark under the
eyes, [275]. ►
Face pale, anæmic, [449]. ► Pale cachectic face, with dry lips with
sordes, pale mucous membranes, [455].
► Patient looks pale, emaciated, [393], [402].
[670.] ►
Face pale, icteric, [578]. ► Face pale and cachectic looking, [305], [400].
► The face is pale and sallow, [356]. ►
Face pale, with an expression of great anxiety (first day), [328]. ►
Pale dirty-white complexion, and the physiognomy peculiarly marked, [304]. ►
Face very pale, [319]. ► Face of a decidedly pale color, [39]. ►
Pale face, [28], [233], [357],
[481]. ►
Face pale and puffy, [52]. [In a
woman, from using sugar of lead for hæmoptysis.] ►
Looks very pale (first days), [2].
[680.] ►
Looks like a corpse, [43]. ► He looks pale and cachectic, [42]. ►
His countenance was pale and sunken, his expression melancholic, [280]. ►
Great pallor of the countenance, [332].
► Unusual pallor, [361]. ►
Countenance blanched but no sallow, [228].
► Pale sallow, complexion, [266]. ►
Pale, cachectic-looking, [527]. ► Face pale, livid, and sunken, [186]. ►
Face pale and rather anxious, [259].
[690.] ►
Face pale or yellowish, [9]. ► Face pale or somewhat yellow, [35]. ►
Face pale and yellowish, [258], [324]. ►
Face pale, somewhat yellowish, [273].
► Face pale and slightly yellow,
meagre, and livid, [138]. ► Face rather pale and yellow, [177]. ►
Face yellowish white, [433]. ► Face pale, covered with sweat, [254]. ►
His face, pale, and wan, was marked by the deepest despair, from extreme
suffering, [271]. ► Face pale and distorted from the severity
of the pain, [74]. [700.] ► Erysipelas appeared in a slight wound on
the face received in falling in the epileptic fit, rapidly spread over
the face and head, associated with nausea and vomiting, delirium, pulse
only 52; tongue coated white; violent headache; violent stitches, [272]. ►
Great swelling of the face, especially of the lids, [237]. ► The
face became very much swollen, especially about the eyes and lids, [235]. ►
Swelling of the right half of the face, with very violent pains in the
ear, especially on swallowing saliva, [49].
► Œdematous swelling of the face, [235]. ►
Œdema of the face, [237]. ► Face swollen and purple (fourth day), [246]. ►
Face swollen (after one day), [256].
► Bloated though anæmic countenance,
[271]. ►
Face especially emaciated, and wrinkled to such a degree as to impart an
appearance of premature old age, and in some cases, a melancholy
expression, [117]. [710.] ►
Her face was thrown into active convulsions, so that it took her some
seconds to get control enough to articulate a monosyllable, [343]. ►
Face frequently affected with choreic convulsions, [271]. ► Has
had quivering of the right side of the face from the first; latterly the
left side is becoming similarly affected. There seems to be no actual
paralysis of the facial muscles, but the mouth is a little drawn to the
right, [563]. ► Face much drawn to the left side, [520]. ►
Paralysis of the right side of the face, [50].
► Face contracted, [480]. ►
Paresis of the facial nerve; when talking all the muscles of the face
twitch, [455]. ► The pains in the face and head become so
violent at times, as to extort loud screams, [134]. ►
Sensibility of the face considerably diminished, especially in the right
side, [497]. ►
Considerable diminution of sensibility on the face and neck, so that it
is hard to find out which side is most affected, [525]. [720.]
► The whole right side of the face is
devoid of sensibility in quite a marked degree, as respects simple
contact, changes of temperature, and especially pain, [527]. ►
Slight degree of anæsthesia on the left side of the face, [528]. ►
Slight hypalgesia of the right side of the face, [480]. ►
Lancinations in both sides of the face, increased by movement, but not
by pressure. The pain is worse in the cheeks than anywhere else; is not
felt in the nostrils, eyes, tongue or teeth, but extends into the ear, [134]. ►
Cheeks.
► The cheeks are
somewhat flushed and covered with sweat, [222].
► Cheeks sunken, [519]. ► A
stitch in the right malar bone (after six hours), [4]. ► Slight
anæsthesia of the left cheek, [474].
► Slight diminution of sensibility in
right side of face, [480]. ► Two tearings in the right upper jaw
(after three-quarters of an hour), [4].
► Lips. [730.] ►
Frequently moves his lips, as if smoking a pipe, [178], [198].
► The hair falls from the mustache, [3]. ►
Lips cyanotic, [429]. ► Dry and fissured lips, [537]. ► Lips
and tongue blanched (eighteenth day), [549].
► Lips, teeth, and tongue covered
with thick fissured scabs, [174]. ► Desquamation of the lips every day
without pain, indeed with unusual dryness, [3]. ► Lips
covered with thin, brown scabs, [177].
► Sharp drawing in the flesh of the
upper lip beneath the right wing of the nose (first day), [2]. ►
Trismus, [69]. ► Chin. [740.]
► Violent loud movement of the lower
jaw, with frightful grating of the teeth, [56].
► Boring in the left side of the
lower jaw and in three corresponding teeth (after one hour and a half), [4]. ►
Boring in the right angle of the lower jaw, lasting a long time (after
one hour and a half), [4]. ► Frequent violent tearing in the lower
jaw, near the chin, and in the corresponding tooth (after one hour and a
quarter), [4]. ► Tearing in the right side of the lower
jaw near the chin; after rubbing, it extends into the right lower ribs,
where it disappears of itself; it then returns in the former place and
in the corresponding teeth; afterwards deep breathing causes a sticking
below the right scapula, and when this ceases, a stitch in the upper
part of the right scapula (after two hours), [4]. ► Tearing
in the left side of the lower jaw extending upwards towards the left ear
(after a quarter of an hour), disappearing on rubbing; while rubbing
feels a beating in the left side of the occiput, that lasts a long time,
[4]. ►
Tearing in the lower jaw and lower teeth, not relieved by rubbing, [4]. ►
Sticking and tearing in the right side of the lower jaw (after one hour
and a half), [4]. ► Contractions of the jaws (first day), [274].

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