Magnetis Polus Australis

• ▸Our knowledge of Mag.
• ▸g/.
• ▸is based on two observations by S.
• ▸A.
• ▸Jones and T.

F. Allen of the effects of the flowers on three persons. The symptoms were these: "Sense of great

oppression about his chest;" "strong tendency to fainting (these occurred in a man). A lady had:

"Oppression of chest; could not expand the lungs; with a feeling as if she had swallowed food

without chewing, and it distressed her stomach." In a doctor it "increased the pain of

inflammatory gout;" and "evidently increased the paroxysm of a pain which came on every

afternoon." The Treasury of Botany says: "M. glauca 1s a low-growing, deciduous tree, called in

America Swamp Sassafras, from the nature of the locality in which it grows, and from the

resemblance in its properties to Laurus sassafras. It is also called Beaver-tree, because the root is

eaten by beavers, which animals also make use of the wood in constructing their nests."

Moroseness and ill-humour, with aversion to conversation.—Dislike to society and to

laughing faces.—Passion and rage.—Instability of ideas.

Drawings in fingers, joints of fingers, feet, and ankles.—Lancinating pulsative

pains in roots of nails, as if about to suppurate.—Pains, with pinching or burning lancinations in

different parts of the body.—Contusive pains in limbs and joints, as if the patient had been lying

on flints.—Liability to suffer from a chill—Tendency of nose, ears, hands, and feet to be frozen

by a moderate degree of coldness.—Sudden lassitude when walking, with anxiety and heat, or

sudden inclination to sleep.—Lightness of whole body.

Vertigo, as from intoxication, with staggering gait.—Great rush of blood to brain early

in morning, in bed.—Heaviness, tingling, and digging in head.—Shocks in head, sometimes with

tearing.

Dryness and smarting in eyelids, esp. when moving them, < morning and

evening.—Lachrymation.—Amblyopia.

Accumulation of watery saliva in the mouth.—Speech embarrassed, as by a swelling

of the tongue.

Metallic taste, at one time sweetish, at another acidulous, on and under the

tongue.—All kinds of food appear insipid.—Extreme indifference to food, drink, and tobacco-

smoke.—Bulimy at noon and evening, sometimes during the febrile shiverings —Aching in

scrobiculus during mental exertion.

Pinching in abdomen caused by a current of air—Noisy borborygmi and

grumbling in abdomen.—Pressive, flatulent colic, with pinchings, and inflation of

abdomen.—Sensation, as if inguinal ring were dilated, preparatory to a rupture, with painful

sensibility of that part, when coughing.

Soft, loose feeces, preceded by gripings.—Evacuation of liquid faeces, with

a sensation as if flatus were about to be discharged.—Contraction and painful constriction in

rectum and anus, which hinder the expulsion of wind.

Involuntary emission of urine, from paralysis of sphincter vesicze, esp. at

night—Emission of urine, drop by drop, with torpor of urethra.—Very feeble stream of

urine.—Frequent emission of urine at night.

Strong disposition to emission.—Emission (very unusual) in a

hemiplegic patient; paralysis < after the emission.—Impotence, with sudden cessation of all

enjoyment, in the moment of greatest excitement.—Pain in penis, as if some fibres were torn or

plucked away.—Painful retraction of testes at night—Swelling of testes, with tearing shocks, and

sensation of contraction.

Cough and coryza, with expectoration of greenish mucus, and

shortness of breath—Paroxysms of fetid cough at night, when sleeping.—Want to take full

inspirations, like sighing, with involuntary deglutition.

Oppression of the chest, as if the respiration were tremulous, and produced an

impression of coolness.—Drawing pressure in both sides of sternum, with anguish of conscience,

which allows no rest.

Violent palpitation of the heart, with great heat in cardiac region.—Palpitation of the

heart, during which it seems that it is not the heart that palpitates.

Pressive, burning pain in loins, during repose and movement.—Pain, as of a fracture,

or wrenching pain in joints of sacrum, and lumbar vertebre.

Tingling along arms, like slight shocks.—Painful and rapid jerking along

• ▸arms.
• ▸—Heaviness and lassitude in arms.
• ▸—Gurgling along arms and veins of the arms.
• ▸—Tingling

and throbbing in ends of fingers —Panaritium.

Jerking throbbing in tendons of ham, with contraction of legs, esp. during

movement.—Pressive tearing in the patella——Throbbing in muscles of feet, after walking.—The

knees give way during movement.—Easy dislocation of joint of foot, when making a false

step.—The feet are painful when he lets them hang down when sitting; all over them there is a

fine throbbing.—Sensibility and pain, as from a wound, in nail of great toe.—The toenails

penetrate the flesh.

Urgent inclination to sleep, evening and morning; closing of the eyes without power

to sleep.—Sleeplessness with over-excitement before midnight.—Confused, frightful

dreams.—Prolonged dreams on the same subject, with fatiguing meditation——Dreams of

incendiary fires.—Slow, noisy, snoring expiration before midnight; after midnight inspiration is

of the same character.—Lying on the back during the night.—Congestion in head in morning,

which compels lying with head high.

Excessive dread of open air, which penetrates to the very marrow of the bones, even

when the weather is hot; with ill-humour and inclination to weep.—Shuddering, with cloudiness

before eyes, trembling and tossing of limbs, without shivering, followed by heat in head and

face.

Magnolia Glauca.

• ▸Sweet Magnolia.
• ▸Sweet Bay.
• ▸N.
• ▸O.
• ▸Magnoliaceé¢.
• ▸Tincture of the flowers.

• ▸Antidoted by: M.
• ▸p.
• ▸arct.
• ▸, Ign.
• ▸, Zinc.
• ▸Compare: Mgt.
• ▸, Galv.
• ▸, Electr.
• ▸In fetid cough,

• ▸Caps.
• ▸Rush of blood to head, Ast.
• ▸r.
• ▸Toe-nails, Graph.
• ▸, Sil.
• ▸, Nit.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Thuy.
• ▸See also under Met.