Magnetis Polus Arcticus

Peevishness, and inclination to weep, with shivering.—Mildness,

submission.—Indolence when seated, as if power of moving were lost.—Irresolution, followed by

prompt execution, after a resolution has been once formed.—Speaking loud while quite alone and

• ▸engaged in business.
• ▸—Fickleness.
• ▸—Anxious hesitation and restlessness.
• ▸—Loss of sense.
• ▸—Loss of

ideas.—Weakness of memory.—Tendency to make mistakes when writing.

Great lassitude, and painful weariness of the whole body, with dejection, esp.

in morning and in open air, as during sultry weather—Drawing sensation in periosteum of all

bones, as at commencement of intermittent fever—Digging lancinations, which are more painful

the deeper they are, in different parts of body.—Lancinating shocks, throbbing, trembling,

coldness, and sensation as if the blood were driven towards the parts touched by the

magnet.—Over-excitement, with trembling, uneasy restlessness in limbs, and great nervous

weakness.

Vertigo, as from intoxication, with staggering, when walking in open air, and

instability when standing. —Semi-lateral drawing, with vertigo, from middle of head towards

ears, like the oscillation of a pendulum.—Cephalalgia when lifting or moving eyes.—Depressing

cephalalgia, as from a weight.—Cephalalgia, as if brain were about to burst.—Tension of

integuments of head, as if they adhered too closely to the cranium.

Eyes prominent and fixed.—Icy coldness of (weak) eye, as if a lump of ice lay in orbit

instead of the eye —Restless movements of eyes —Lancinations, itching, and jerking drawing in

eyelids, with lachrymation.—Painful sensation of dryness in eyelids, on awaking in morning.

Murmuring in ears, and internal heat, as from boiling water—Deafness, as if caused by

a band over ears.

Aberration of smell; smell of rotten eggs, or of fresh plaister, or dust.—Epistaxis,

preceded by pressive cephalalgia in forehead.—Redness and heat in point of nose, followed by

red spots, hot, and plainly circumscribed, on cheeks.

Paleness in face —Tension in face. —Painful squeezing in maxillary joint, with

sensation, while moving it, as if it were dislocated.—Swelling of one cheek only.—Trismus.

At night, collection of saliva in mouth, so profuse that every time he wakes the

pillow is quite wet—Itching in point of tongue, compels him to scratch it.

Odontalgia in carious teeth, at intervals, as if they were being extracted.—Pains in

carious teeth, with gums swollen and painful when touched.—Pains in (carious) teeth, < after a

meal, and by heat, > in open air, and when walking. —Odontalgia, with red, hot, swollen

cheeks.—Odontalgia, with shocks, which traverse the periosteum of the jaw, or with drawing,

pressive, or else tearing, digging, or burning lancinating pains.—Incisors set on edge, when

breathing through the mouth.—Numbness and insensibility of the gums, on the cessation of the

toothache.

Voracity in evening.—Loss of taste—Acid taste in the mouth.—Tobacco has a

bitter taste.

Production and incarceration of much flatus.—Flatulent, pressive colic.—Shocks

in abdomen, as if something in it were falling, or blows proceeding from abdomen, and passing

upwards through chest, as far as the throat.—Inflation of abdomen.—Pressure and boring towards

inguinal ring, as if preparatory to a rupture, with relaxation of the inguinal ring.

Obstinate constriction of abdomen, and constipation.—Hard feces, of a large size,

difficult to evacuate, often preceded by drawing, dysenteric pains in the hypogastrium.

Dry, asthmatic, suffocating cough, < by walking in open

air.—Spasmodic, shaking cough, in evening, when going to sleep, and which hinders

sleep.—Spasmodic, suffocating cough, towards midnight, produced by irritation in bronchia,

shaking the head and whole body, and exciting heat until a general perspiration ensues, with

cessation of the cough.—Constant want to cough, in evening, which is removed only by

restraining the cough.

Cracking in the cervical vertebree during movement.—Pains in back, as if

broken, on bending it backwards.

Inflammation of back of hand, with pulsative pain.—Heaviness in arms,

hands, and fingers.

Pains, as of a fracture, in hip-joints and lower limbs.—Great lassitude in

lower extremities, which feel as if they would break when walking.—Pain, as from excoriation in

toes, and corns on the feet.

Tingling and lancinating itching in skin—Burning sensation, or burning tearing in

tetters —Panaritium.

Violent spasmodic yawnings, with wrenching pain in maxillary joint—Strong

disposition to sleep by day.—Coma.—Profound sleep at night, during which the patient generally

lies on the back.—Many vivid dreams (sometimes lascivious).—Sings in her sleep, is wakened by

it; falls asleep again, recommences to sing and again wakes up from it—Waking in evening, after

going to sleep, in consequence of a violent shock in the head, and muscles of the neck.—Tossing

during sleep, with troublesome heat, and urgent inclination to be uncovered, without

thirst—Imperfect waking in morning (2 a.m.), with perfect inner consciousness, vivid memory,

great concourse of ideas, and reflections on some important subject—Almost as if in a

zoomagnetic sleep-talking state; but when fully awake he cannot remember distinctly the subject

of his thoughts.

Sensation of coldness, or of coolness over whole body.—Chilliness.—Cool hands,

with cool perspiration upon them, and over whole body.—Shuddering, followed by transient heat,

and swelling of veins of hands.—Sensation of heat over whole body, with coldness of hands and

lower extremities.—Cold sweat on hands and soles of feet.

• ▸Amenorrheea.
• ▸Clairvoyance.
• ▸Hernia.
• ▸Panaritium.
• ▸Salivation.
• ▸Sleep disturbed.

Somnambulism. Toothache. Vertebrz, cervical, cracking in.

• ▸Characteristics—The symptoms of M.
• ▸p.
• ▸arct.
• ▸were obtained by applying it in the region of the

Ath to 6th dorsal vertebree, at a distance of four or five fingers' breadth from the body. A number

of well-characterised symptoms were experienced in the teeth and jaws. There was swelling,

• ▸heat, and redness of one cheek.
• ▸Swan reports this case cured by C.
• ▸M.
• ▸Conant; Mrs.
• ▸S.
• ▸C.
• ▸, 31,

blonde, had pain in left lower jaw as if out of joint; < morning, on moving it; sensation as if head

• ▸of bone were squeezed and crowded into socket.
• ▸M.
• ▸p.
• ▸arct.
• ▸1m cured (Organon, iii.
• ▸343).

Sensations of coldness are marked. There is coldness where the magnet is applied. The eyeball

feels cold, as if it were a lump of ice in the socket. On the other hand there is a sensation as if the

blood was rushing towards the point touched by the magnet. One symptom of the proving,

occurring in a half-waking state, suggests an approach to somnambulism. He thinks out a

"difficult subject in the best form in a foreign language"; but when awake he cannot remember

distinctly the subject. Several provers complained of faintness. One had "sensation of dryness

and lightness in the body with want of strength." Sensation as if scalp adhered to skull.

• ▸Symptoms are > uncovering.
• ▸Headache is < lifting or moving arm.
• ▸< On waking.
• ▸Toothache <

breathing through the mouth.

• ▸Antidoted by: M.
• ▸p.
• ▸aust.
• ▸, Ign.
• ▸, Zn.
• ▸Compare: Sensation as if teeth being pulled out,

• ▸Ipec.
• ▸< Raising arm, Bar.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Con.
• ▸, Cup.
• ▸, Fer.
• ▸One cheek red, Cham.
• ▸See also under Magnetis p.

amb.