Ferrum Magneticum

Caspari is the authority for Fer. magnet. It produces paralytic weaknesses like

the other Iron preparations, of which this is the most peculiar: "After perspiring during a

moderate walk, weakness and lassitude, which seem to proceed from the abdomen." As with

Ferrum, there is < during a meal; flatulency, grumblings, movements in abdomen; with urgent

diarrhoea after a meal. The abdominal sufferings are felt more on the left side. Very abundant and

frequent emission of fetid wind. Many rectal and urinary symptoms are recorded. The

appearance of warts may indicate that Fer. magn. is related to the sycotic constitution.

• ▸Teste, who puts Fer.
• ▸magn.
• ▸in the Arnica group along with Ledum, Croton, Rhus and Spig.
• ▸, has

had some experience with it. It relieved (after Spig.) an old man suffering from chronic

rheumatism of the nape of the neck, with irritable disposition. Also a case of compound capsular

cataract in a gouty patient. A third patient had rheumatism of both thighs, coming on after violent

• ▸exercise.
• ▸This patient was treated in two attacks.
• ▸In the first attack he received Arn.
• ▸first, and

• ▸then Fe.
• ▸mag.
• ▸In the second, Fe.
• ▸mag.
• ▸was given at once and the effect was speedy and marked.

The fourth patient had a very unpleasant experience with the medicine. He suffered from a

mercurial neurosis, and was very sensitive to medicines. One of the symptoms which led to its

being given was a painful contraction of the posterior cervical muscles, against which no remedy

• ▸Teste had tried had produced any effect.
• ▸Fe.
• ▸mag.
• ▸, four globules in a tumbler of water, two

tablespoonfuls every day, was the prescription. The first tablespoonful, which was taken in the

morning, seemed to produce a sensible improvement; but a quarter of an hour after the second

dose, which was taken at 4 p.m., the sight became dim; a halo of fire, red and violet, was seen

first in front of the right, and afterwards in front of the left eye; soon after, this halo, which

formed a circular zigzag-shaped line, became narrower and narrower and finally produced such a

complete blindness, that the patient assured Teste he was unable to distinguish night from

daylight. This lasted one hour and did not pass off entirely till after a meal. Much more

distressing phenomena followed: Towards 8 p.m. the pain in the nape, which first was seated on

the left side, passed to the right, invading the whole extent of the trapezoid muscle, where it

became literally frightful. "For two days and nights the patient, who was a brave and strong man,

and whom I had seen bear the most painful surgical operations without uttering a sound, suffered

• ▸to such an extent that he uttered heartrending cries.
• ▸" Camph.
• ▸, Puls.
• ▸, and Bry.
• ▸failed to relieve, the

• ▸first rather aggravated.
• ▸Rhus t.
• ▸effected some relief.
• ▸But it did not prevent the recurrence, for

eight days in succession, of the visual phenomena, though with less intensity than the first time,

at irregular intervals, generally 6 or 7 a.m., and sometimes even at night in perfect darkness.

Indecision, and long reflection before undertaking anything. —Indolence, slowness of

movement.—Air of importance, and self-sufficiency.—Irascibility.

Pulsative headache, by fits——Circumscribed headache, esp. in the morning, generally

• ▸on r.
• ▸side.
• ▸—Headache on stooping, on moving the arms, and on going up stairs.
• ▸—Headache,

suddenly attacking the eyes and the nose, as if the patient were going to weep, or to

• ▸sneeze.
• ▸—Itching in the scalp.
• ▸—Eruption of small painful pimples on the scalp.
• ▸—Small scabs on

the head.—Falling off of the hair.

Darkness before the r. eye, which causes it to wink.—Variegated areola round a

light.—Halo of fine, red or violet, contracts till vision entirely disappears, cannot tell day from

night; lasts an hour; vision fully restored only after a meal; repeated at irregular intervals eight

days in succession.—Pressive pain on the eyelid, which impedes the sight.—Swelling of the lower

lid, which makes the eye appear smaller.—Pricking itching in the canthi.—Painful sensibility of

the lachrymal caruncula, with profuse lachrymation.

Pullings in the ears and the pharynx, during deglutition.—Itching, wringing, and cold

lancinations, in the auditory duct.—Tingling in the ears.

Face dejected, with general heat, followed by redness of the face.—Heat of the

face.—Itching and tingling in the face and on the lips.—Eruptions on the forehead, in the

eyebrows, at the root of the nose, on the cheeks, the lips, and the chin.

Accumulation of water and saliva in the mouth.—Itching sensation in the posterior

part of the palate.

Bleeding of the gums, when slightly pressed upon.—Teeth easily set on edge.—Painful

sensibility of the teeth during mastication.

Bitter and rancid taste in the pharynx, on hawking.—Sensation as if mucus were

adhering to the uvula.—Lancinations in the throat.—Pressure in the cesophagus, as if too much

had been swallowed at one time.

During a meal, flatulence; afterwards lassitude taciturn and hot, pain in epigastrium, especially on breathing.

During a meal, flatulency, movements, and grumbling in the abdomen.—After a

meal, taciturnity, lassitude, heat, expulsion of flatus, pains in the region of the stomach, with

anguish, pains in the epigastrium, esp. on breathing, urgent want to evacuate, and

diarrhoea.—A bortive risings.—Nausea.

Movements and grumbling in abdomen. Loose evacuations with much flatulency, especially left side with pullings in legs. Abundant and frequent emission of fetid flatus.

Uneasiness in the abdomen.—The abdominal sufferings are felt more particularly

on |. side—Rolling, grumbling, borborygmi, and whistling in the abdomen, with expulsion of

flatulency, and urgent want to evacuate, and to make water; the movements in the abdomen are

accompanied by pullings along the legs, as far as the toes.—The flatulency seems all to proceed

from one place, in |. side of abdomen.—Very abundant, and frequent emission of fetid wind.

Urgent want to evacuate, with expulsion of flatus only.—Loose

evacuations, with much flatulency, and sometimes with excrements of a fetid smell, physical

depression, and paleness of face.—On expelling the flatus there escapes a small liquid

evacuation.—Itching and shooting in the anus.—Tingling and itching in the rectum.

Urine red and copious, which becomes the colour of clay after having

stood some time.—Itching and lancination in the scrotum, and in the extremity of the

glans.—Increase of sexual desire, with and without erection; or absence of all sexual desire, yet

without impotence.

Frequent hawking of mucus.—Dry cough after dinner, proceeding

from an irritation in the trachea, as if one had swallowed dust.

• ▸18, 19.
• ▸Chest and Heart.
• ▸—Tearing and lancination in the |.
• ▸side of the chest, when

breathing.—Sensation of emptiness in the chest.—On drawing up the chest, and throwing back the

r. arm, the heart beats violently and with repeated throbs.

In the morning, pain in the nape of the neck, as if from having lain in an inconvenient

position.

Cramp-like or paralytic pullings, or jerking pullings in the forearms, and in

• ▸the hands.
• ▸—Pain, as from dislocation in the wrist—Paralytic pulling in the r.
• ▸arm.
• ▸—Prickings,

esp. in the phalanges, and in the ends of the fingers.—Spots, like ephelides, in the arms, and in

the fingers —Small warts on the back of the hands, and on the wrist.—Pulsation at the end of the

thumb.—Whitlow.—Dryness and tension in the hands.

Tensive pressure in the hip-joint, on drawing back the leg, at night and in the

morning; the pain is dispersed by lying on that part, but returns when the position is

changed.—Acute lancinations in the knee.—In the morning, spasms, and contraction in the calf of

the leg —Painful stiffness on the internal surface of the knee, esp. on bending it, after extending

the leg, and only while walking in the open air.—In the evening, in bed, sharp pains in a small

place on the foot, with great sensitiveness to the touch, or to the bending of the foot

upwards.—Ganglion of the foot —Tingling and pricking in the heels.—Starting in the soles of the

feet.—The little toe is painful, as if it were violently compressed.

24. Generalities—Pains and itchings, some of which reappear at intervals of four weeks.—A fter

a walk, thirst, perspiration, lassitude, paleness.—Prickings, lancinations, tingling, and itching in

different parts—Paralytic weakness, difficulty of movement, and relaxation of the

• ▸muscles.
• ▸—Excessive lassitude.
• ▸—Trembling in the legs and arms.
• ▸—After perspiring, during a

moderate walk, weakness and lassitude, which seem to proceed from the abdomen, with a

trembling in the knees and hands.—Fatigue on taking the slightest exercise.

Itching and tingling in different parts, esp. in the evening, mitigated by scratching, but

appearing in other parts.—Red spots, sometimes of a bright red, or bluish red; some disappear on

being pressed.—Small warts (on the hands).

Violent and noisy yawnings, with accumulation of water in the mouth.—Drowsiness,

with prompt sleep on lying down, or even when seated.—Absurd dreams at night, and awaking

towards three o'clock in the morning, with perspiration and heat.—Dreams immediately after

lying down, waking with a start; coldness which causes trembling.—Inclination to remain in bed

in the morning.—After rising, weakness in the knees.—Sleep, not refreshing, with pressure on the

eyes, confusion in the head, flaccidity in the skin and face, and lassitude in the arms.

Shivering and cold, in the side opposite to that on which the patient has lain.—After a

walk, heat with weakness, proceeding from the stomach, trembling, vertigo, paleness, want to lie

down.—Heat, as if a catarrh were developing itself, with lassitude and down-cast eyes.—Internal

heat, with perspiration and slow pulse, after washing the body.—Pulse slow and

small.—Perspiration on the slightest exercise —Sweat in the morning, esp. on the body, and on

the occiput.—Sweat of an acid smell, as in measles.

• ▸Amaurosis.
• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸Flatulence.
• ▸Ganglion.
• ▸Rheumatism.
• ▸Vision, disorders of.
• ▸Warts.

Whitlow.

Third potency.