Vertigo on rising in the morning, so that it became dark before his eyes.
Has had slight vertigo at intervals during the forenoon (second day).
Slight vertigo and pressure in the temples with little or no pain (after a quarter of an hour).
Awoke very dizzy; cannot walk across the floor, but staggers towards objects for support (after three hours).
Giddiness.
Giddiness, heaviness, drowsiness, or actual sleep, with great tendency to dreamy delirium, and, in women, slight occasional startings (from 1/48 grain).
Awoke still feeling quite dizzy (second day).
Continued giddy, but walked steadily, though slowly and cautiously.
Dizziness upon moving the head suddenly (after eleven hours).
Dizziness upon moving the head quickly (second day).
Dizziness when attempting to walk (after two hours).
PAINS: Head hot (after four hours).
Head very hot.
Head hot (after ten minutes).
Head feels hot (after one hour).
Head and face much flushed and hot; pulse full, bounding, and irregular.
Head subjectively warm, but not painful; cold applications are grateful (second day).
Head feels full and uncomfortable (after two hours).
Feeling as if the head was screwed up; walking caused the most severe sticking pains; relieved toward 11 A.M., and disappeared by evening.
Dull pain in the head continues, with dizziness upon moving suddenly (third day).
Sticking pains in the base of the skull, and especially over the eyes, on every motion, and especially on stepping.
Sensation of fullness in the anterior part of the brain (after one hour).
Slight pain in the antero-superior cerebral region, coming on shortly after taking the drug, continuing through the night and next day.
Headache commencing in the middle of the forehead (fifteen minutes).
Fullness in the forehead, and head hot, but at no time any throbbing of the carotids or arteries of the head.
Slight fullness in the front part of the head, and dilation of the pupils.
Dull pain in the forehead, with dizziness on moving suddenly.
Pressive pain in forehead.
Fine, drawing, very sensitive stitches across the forehead and temples; recurred every four to ten minutes, and lasted several seconds or a minute. Slight pain in the temples (after half an hour).
Very slight pain in the temples and eyes (after twelve hours).
Fullness of temples and also of forehead, with very slight pain can scarcely walk, am so dizzy.
A feeling of fullness and pressure at the temples.
Slight pressure in the temples (after one hour).
Feeling in the head as though the temples were being pressed from without; pressure worse on the right side (after one hour).
Dull pain in the temples, coming on at intervals of perhaps a quarter of an hour, and lasting a few minutes.
This pain is not severe, but seems like a deep heavy pressure; at other times it is a steady tension in the anterior cerebral region, as if the brain was being pressed outward in all directions (first day).
Has a dull bruised feeling in the temples (after nine hours).
Very sensitive sticking in the left temporal region on waking in the morning; it extended to behind the ear, and scarcely permitted him to open his left eye; disappeared after moving about in the open air.
Throbbing in the temporal regions (after ten minutes).
Feeling of pressure under the parietal bones.
Eyes.
IN GENERAL: Strange appearance of the eyes, as though projected from their sockets (after one and a half hours).
Eyes appear fixed and glassy (first day).
Eyes look glassy and congested (after one hour).
Glittering, excited eyes.
Eyes restless (after one hour).
Eyes move restlessly hither and thither (ordinarily, his look is not steady).
Simple inflammatory swelling of the mucous membrane, with muco-purulent secretion, often accompanied by swelling of the lachrymal sac, occasionally with less swelling, but more marked hyperaemia and flow of tears.
Eyes considerably congested, but the pupils have scarcely commenced to dilate (after one hour). eyes feel wearied (second day) Considerable pain and lachrymation.
Slight pain in the eyes continued for about two hours, accompanied part of the time by an unpleasant sensation of fullness and pressure in the anterior part of the head, making me restless and uneasy.
Eyes feel swollen, and pain in the eyes and temples slightly increased with each pulsation of the heart (after twelve hours).
Dull pain in the eyes and head.
Dull pain in the eyes, and slight pain in the temples (after one hour).
Deep seated dull pain in the back part of the eye (after ten minutes).
Eyes and lids feel sore to the touch 9 (after nine hours).
BROW, LIDS, ETC.; Sharp pain under the right eye, with slight pain in the temples (after four hours).
Neuralgic pains, commencing under the left orbit, and running back to the ear, lasting perhaps ten minutes at a time, and then disappearing for fifteen or twenty; these have been noticed for several hours (second day).
Redness and excoriation of the skin of the eyelids.
Eyelids swollen (after one hour).
About 9 P.M. eyelids felt heavy and difficult to keep open; yet she had no inclination to sleep.
Dull, heavy, aching pain in the eyelids, not severe (second day).
Eyelids feel sore are red and congested (second day).
I have myself once or twice experienced slight congestion of the entire conjunctiva, with dryness of the membrane and dull aching pain in the eyeball, after the use of a very weak solution of Atropia.
On one occasion this condition followed the instillation of 12 drops of a solution of 1 part of Sulphate of Atropia in 400,000 parts of water.
Slight injection of the conjunctival membrane. Conjunctivae vividly injected (after one hour).
Acute erysipelatous inflammation and swelling of the conjunctiva and eyelids.
Atropine conjunctivitis.
Severe pain in the left eyeball (after nine hours).
Slight pain in the eyes continued; it is as if the eyeballs were pressed from without in every direction (after twelve hours).
Pupils not unusually dilated, but perfectly immovable.
Pupils dilated.
Pupils somewhat dilated.
Pupils very much dilated; spectral illusions continue (second day).
Both pupils dilated, but not ad maximum.
Excessive dilatation of pupils (first day).
Complete mydriasis.
Pupils are still dilated; can see to read quite distinctly for a few minutes, after which the letters, words, and lines run together and become indistinct (second day).
Dilatation and immobility of the pupil.
Pupils slightly dilated; conjunctiva not injected.
Pupils still dilated, with diplopia (second day).
Pupils considerably dilated; vertigo increasing (after one hour).
VISION: Dimness of sight (after a quarter of an hour).
Dimness of vision (after eleven hours).
Dimness of vision, and bright circles of a golden color dancing before the eyes.
His difficulty in seeing small objects which were near him (the pupils were still dilated was now the most prominent feature remaining of his illness (after twenty-four hours).
Only a circular line of iris visible; was nearly blind; a thick cloud obstructed vision, and images were confused, with a reddish tinge (after one hour).
Can see but little; pupils considerable dilated, but contract readily under the influence of light (after three hours).
Objects appear at first enveloped in a white vapor; the contours are no longer distinct; if the dose is increased, almost complete blindness may ensue.
Disturbance of vision; objects seem enveloped in a cloud (the obscuration increases with the dose); even complete blindness ensues, but disappears in a day or two after ceasing the medicine.
Vision obscured; pupils dilated; eyeballs injected; she seems to see nothing about her.
Could see nothing (first day).
After looking at objects a few minutes, they become indistinct and fade from view (after two hours).
While reading a book, the letters gradually grew indistinct, and seemed wavering before the eyes.
Can see to read a little, but after a few words the letters grow indistinct, and am obliged to close the eyes to rest them (second day).
While talking with persons, then suddenly vanish (second day).
Eyes intolerant to light (second day).
The eye is sensitive to the light held in front of it, which, however, does not affect the dilatation of the pupil.
It is impossible to cause color-confusion by the use of the Atropine, but partial color-blindness may be induced by either the internal or external use of it.
The impressions made by color are altered by Atropine as regards strength exactly as they are by the different degrees of solar light on different days.
On several occasions through the night she had vision of great numbers of white flies on the door, which was white, and requested that they be brushed off.
They were not in motion, and were rather smaller than the common housefly.
This perversion of sight continued until noon of the following day, on closing the eyes. The medicine produced temporary bright spots and stars before the eyes, and a brilliant glow around the letters, which frightened him greatly.
Bright flashes before the eyes, immediately on closing them (first night).
On one occasion my patient was much annoyed by the appearance of a large black bag, with veritable legs, a few inches below a black doorknob.
Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.