This pellicle is also said to have a connection with the heart, which arrangement furnishes a decidedly curious explanation of the mechanism of sympathetic and maudlin lachrymation. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century] Reference
Chronic poisoning (iodism) is characterized by coryza, salivation, and lachrymation, frontal headache, loss of appetite, marked mental depression, acne of the face and chest, and a petechial eruption on the limbs. From Wordnik.com. [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference
It may be so; and if it were, he had by that time got pretty well over the lachrymation of their parting. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Lord Byron]
The closure of the eye and the lachrymation are quite involuntary, and so is the disturbance of the heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Analysis of Mind] Reference
These compounds were employed on a large scale to produce temporary blindness by lachrymation, or weeping. From Wordnik.com. [The riddle of the Rhine, chemical strategy in peace and war ...] Reference
These were, in fact, bursting a few yards away, with no more serious results than lachrymation and vomiting. From Wordnik.com. [The riddle of the Rhine, chemical strategy in peace and war ...] Reference
These substances caused great inconvenience through temporary blindness by lachrymation, but were not highly toxic. From Wordnik.com. [The riddle of the Rhine, chemical strategy in peace and war ...] Reference
I am succoured and nourished by your lachrymation, and your red dawn scenarios and sedition are the sweetest of the butthurt-eyefruit. From Wordnik.com. [Sadly, No!] Reference
Very soon they had dangerous symptoms: abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting followed by lachrymation from the protruding and inflamed eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon's Campaign in Russia Anno 1812] Reference
In order to counter the use of lachrymatory compounds by the enemy, compounds which penetrated the helmet insufficiently to cause serious casualties but sufficiently to hamper the individual by lachrymation, goggles were introduced in which the eyes were protected by rims of rubber sponge. From Wordnik.com. [The riddle of the Rhine, chemical strategy in peace and war ...] Reference
A roughness of the tongue, slenderness of the neck, wasting of the entire body, constipation, wasting and shrinking of the finger-nails and fingers, hollowness of the eyes, pain in the left scapula extending to the shoulder, pharyngeal catarrh with abundant and mucilaginous sputum and a tendency to lachrymation. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century] Reference
Actual diseases of the eye are discussed in chapters on pain in the eyes, ophthalmia, pannus (including ungula, egilops and cataract), tumors of the conjunctiva, itching of the eyes, lachrymation, cancer, diseases of the cornea and uvea, diseases of the eyelids, lachrymal fistula and entropion. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century] Reference
In ordinary cases, and without treatment, it takes three, five, seven and eleven days, before the eyes get well again; but under the use of Apis, the eyes improve so decidedly in from one to three days, that the eyes do not require any further treatment; and that even troublesome sequelæ, such as photophobia; styes which come and go; troublesome lachrymation; continual redness; swelling and blennorrhœa of the lids; fistulæ lachrymalis, etc., need not be apprehended. From Wordnik.com. [Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent] Reference
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