Spigelia Anthelmia - Eyes symptoms - T.F. Allen

EYES

Eyes

Objective.

Yellow rings around the eyes,

Redness of the white of the eye, with injected bloodvessels,

Redness and inflammation of the white of the eye, in the morning; the lids are so heavy that he can scarcely open them,

Much hardened mucus in the eyes, frequently all day,

Great moisture in the eyes, without sensation,

The eyes are very weak, apparently with an internal impediment; wherever he turns them they remain, and he does not know what he is looking at, like one whose vision has vanished,

The eyes seem dim and weak, with unchanged pupils,

Eyes look dim and weak (after seven days),

Eyes appear bright and sparkling, as they generally do before the eruption of small-pox or measles,

Eyes seem distended,

Subjective.

The eyes hurt on motion, as if too large for their orbits,

He could not turn the eyes in all directions without pain,

Pain in the eye,

Pain as if sand were in the eyes,

Dry heat in the eyes in the afternoon,

Burning pain in the left eye towards the temple (after thirty-three hours),

Sensation as though the eyes were watering, which was not the case, with slight pressure in them; the vision, however, is just as much affected as in lachrymation (after twenty-six hours),

Violent burrowing stitch in the middle of the eye and in the inner canthus, that does not prevent vision, but presses the upper lid downward (after seventy-four hours),

Crawling in the eyes,

Vision

Whenever he fixes his gaze vision vanishes,

Farsighted; can see clearly at a distance but not near,

He does not see as distinctly as usual, and when writing is obliged to make great effort, as if water were in the eyes,

It constantly seemed as though feathers or hairs were in the eyelashes, or as if a fog were before the eyes; this sensation was aggravated by rubbing (after one hour),

Impending amaurosis,

Brow and orbit

Burning itching in the right eyebrow, relieved by scratching (after twenty-six hours),

Burning pain in the left eyebrow,

Swelling on the temporal side of the orbit, with pressive pain and painful soreness to touch,

Dull pressure above the orbits (after ten minutes),

Violent pressure above the right orbit, with a dull pressive pain in the whole head (after two hours and a half),

Pain pressing from without inward, at the side of the right eye (after three hours),

Violent pressive pain in the bone of the left orbit, on the temporal side near the malar bone, followed by swelling of the bone, which is sore to touch,

Pain as if the left orbit were pressed from above downward,

Lid.

Eyelids so relaxed and paralyzed that they hang low down and must be raised with the hand, with greatly dilated pupils,

Sensation as if a hard substance were under the right upper lid, relieved by rubbing (after four days),

Ulcerating and biting painful soreness of the margins of the lids,

Pain as if the upper lids were hard and immovable; he could not raise them easily,

Burning pain beneath the right eyelid (after three hours and a half),

Burning pain in the right external canthus,

Fine painful cutting as with a knife, on the margin of the left lower lid (after nine hours),

Sticking pressure beneath the lids of both eyes (after two hours and a half),

A very fine but painful sticking, like a needle-stitch, in the margin of the right upper lid (after twenty-three hours),

Sticking pain in the right inner canthus (after eleven hours and a half),

Some recurrent stitches in the left eyelids,

Lachrymation.

Trickling lachrymation; much biting, acrid water runs from the eyes,

Ball.

Intolerable pressive pain in the eyeballs, still more painful on turning the eyes; on attempting to look with the eyes turned he became dizzy, so that he was obliged to turn the whole head,

Pressive pain in the eyeballs,

A contractive burning pain in the right eyeball,

Tensive pain in the left eyeball (after forty-nine hours),

Constant sticking pain in the right eyeball, also on moving it (after twenty-four hours),

Itching stitch in the right eyeball, that returned after rubbing (after one hour),

Itching in the left eyeball, that disappeared on rubbing,

Pupil.

Pupils unchanged, but looking weak and dim,

Dilatation of the pupils (after a short time), ; (after a small dose),