The Materia
Medica of the Nosodes.
By Henry Clay ALLEN, M. D.
Presented and arranged by Dr Robert Séror.
MAGNETIS POLI AMBO.
(The Magnet).
Symptoms produced by touching either pole of the magnet,
indiscriminately, or by laying the whole of the magnetic surface upon
the body.The potencies have been prepared by triturating milk sugar which
had been saturated when exposed to the emanations of the magnet, a
methodHahnemann
does not appear to have practiced.The pathogenesis of the magnet as a whole, and of each pole
separately, is fromHahnemann’s
Materia Medica Pura. It is to the original provings and observations
of Hahnemann
that we owe these valuable remedies, and no better or more logical
introduction perhaps can be given than he has furnished in the Materia
Medica Pura :To the ordinary mechanical, materialistic, and atomistic heads-and
there is a vast number of such-it seemed not only paradoxical, but
childish and incredible, that, according to the homeopathic medical
doctrine, the administration of doses of only very minute fractions of
a grain of the more powerful medicines could be of use.I
grant that it
may certainly be more
convenient to
regard all diseases as accumulations of gross impurities, and active
drugs as rough levers and brooms, or as chemical reagents,
consequently as palpable things.This may,
I
repeat, be more
convenient than
to regard those alterations of the being of living creatures (disease)
as pure dynamical affections of the vital force, and medicines as
pure, virtual, tone-altering powers, as they are in reality, and to
set about curing according to these views.If we do not adopt these true views, but adhere to those ordinary
material ones, the curative powers of medicine must he estimated
according to their bulk and the weight of their dose;
and hence the scales must determine the efficacy of the dose. But in
that case we must first ascertain the weight of the disease, in order
to be able to reckon whether a disease weighing so many pounds (it
has, indeed, been hitherto not unusual to employ the phrase “grave
illness”)
could be pried out, as with a lever, by such a weight of medicine.I
willingly
abandon to those colleagues of mine such atomistic views, by which the
business of treatment can be carried on very comfortably, even when
half asleep ;
for, as we all know, to us poor mortals nothing is more easy of
comprehension than the material, ponderable, palpable, and sensible,
because much thinking (and
observing),
as an Israelitish teacher says, is a weariness to the body.I
cannot suppose
them capable of regarding disease as immaterial alterations of the
vitality, as pure dynamic derangements of our state of health, and
medicinal powers as mere virtual, almost spiritual, forces.It is impossible to disabuse them of the idea that for such and
such a grave disease a dose of medicine of such and such a weight is
required, seeing that they could point to the traditional practice of
thousands of years, when palpable quantities of medicine must always
be poured into the patient from large bottles, pots, and boxes, in
order that any effect should be produced in serious diseases, andyet
even this did not usually succeed.
I
can readily
believe this ;
the effect of the ordinary treatment of all times fully corroborates
it. But how can they reconcile it with the atomistic, materialistic
notions they entertain respecting the action of medicines and their
curative powers, that a single imponderable
spark from a
Leyden jar gives a shock to the strongest man, and yet no
ascertainable ponderable substance is communicated to his body ?How can they reconcile with their atomistic, materialistic notions
the enormous power of mesmerism, when a powerful man with a strong
will to do goodapproaches
the point of
his thumb to the pit of the stomach of a nervous patient ?How can they, finally, reconcile with their atomistic,
materialistic notions respecting the actions of medicines the fact
that a carefully-constructed magnetic steel rod can effect such a
powerful derangement of our health, even when it is not in actual
contact with the body, but may even be covered with some thick
material(such
as cloth, bladder, glass, etc.),
so that we suffer therefrom violent morbid affections;
or what is equally remarkable, that a magnetic rod can quickly and
permanently cure the most severe disease for which it is a suitable
medicine, when it is brought near the body, for but a short time, even
though covered as above described ?
Atomist !
you narrow-minded wiseacre !
tell me what ponderable quantity of the magnet entered the body in
order to effect these often enormous changes in its state of health ?Is not the centillionth of a grain
(a
fraction of a grain that has boo ciphers for its denominator)
still infinitely too heavy to represent this absolutely imponderable
quantity, the kind of spirit
that emanated
from the magnetic rod into this living body ?Will you now continue to express your amazement at the homeopathic
doses of powerful medicines of the sextillionth, octillionth, the
decillionth of a grain, which are gross weights compared with this
invisible magnetic power?
The subjoined symptoms occurred from various powerful magnets
brought in contact with various sensitive individuals, without
distinction of the poles.They were observed in experiments conducted for half a year for the
purpose of ascertaining the proper and most efficacious mode of
stroking the steel with magnets, in which a horse-shoe magnet capable
of lifting twelve pounds was held in the hands, which were in contact
with both poles for an hour at a time.Mind and Disposition (Magnetis Poli Ambo)
II
Hurried
heedlessness and forgetfulness ;
he says and does something different from what he intends, omitting
letters, syllables, and words.II
While
attending to his business in the daytime, he talks aloud to himself,
without being aware of it.I
He endeavors
to do things, and actually does things contrary to his own intentions.I
He inclines to
be angry and vehement ;
and after he has become angry, his head aches as if sore.I
Hurried zeal ;
afterwards a gnawing pain in the arm and in the head of the humerus.Excessive exhaustion of the body, with feeling of heat, and cool
sweat in the face with unceasing, and, as it were, hurried and
overstrained activity.He is disposed to feel vexed
;
this gives him pain, especially a headache, as if a nail were forced
into his head.He is faint, but excessively solicitous to do his work properly.
He is unable to fix his attention on one object.
Print seems to him very bright, but he has a difficulty to
comprehend what he reads.The things around him strike him like one who is half dreaming.
Wavering irresoluteness, hurriedness.
Sensorium (Magnetis Poli Ambo)
The objects of sight seem to be wavering, this makes him stagger
when walking.Vertigo in the evening after lying down, as if he would fall, or
resembling a sudden jerk through the head.When walking he staggers from time to time, without feeling giddy.
Head (Magnetis Poli Ambo)
II
Headache
occasioned by the least chagrin, as if a sharp pressure were made on a
small spot in the brain.I
Pain in the
region of the vertex, at a small spot in the brain, as if a blunt nail
were pressed into the brain ;
the spot feels sore to the touch.Headache, as is felt after catching cold.
In the morning on waking, he feels a horrid, digging-up, stupefying
headache, going off immediately after flatulence begins to move about
in the abdomen.Sensation on top of the head, as if the head and the whole body
were pressed down.The head feels as if some one were trying to pull it off the trunk.
The head feels confused as when one takes opium.
Transitory headache, one single jerk, composed of darting and
tearing sharp pain in the middle of one of the two hemispheres, like
the pain that is felt at the moment when one receives a blow.When endeavoring to think of something and fatiguing his memory, he
is attacked with headache.Whizzing in the whole head, occasioned by the imposition of
magnetic surfaces on the thighs, legs and chest.Face (Magnetis Poli Ambo)
II
Sweat in the
face without heat, early in the morning.Cold hands, with heat in the face and smarting sensation in the
skin of the face.Intolerable burning prickings in the muscles of the face, in the
evening.Eyes (Magnetis Poli Ambo)
I
Dilated pupils
with cheerfulness of the mind and body.I
Fiery sparks
before the eyes, like shooting stars.I
Itching of the
eyelids and eyeballs in the inner canthus.Burning, drawing, and constant sparks in the affected eye.
Burning, tearing, and sparkling in the eye.
Dryness of the eyelids and the inner mouth, in the morning, after
waking.Intensely painful stitches through the right eye, disappearing in
the jaw, followed by a drawing through the same eye, down the neck,
through the chest, abdomen and hips toward the right lower limb.Sensation as if the eyelids were dry.
Sensation in the eye as if the pendulum of a clock were moving in
it.Smarting in the eyes in the evening after lying down, as from acrid
tears.There was no dilatation of the pupils during the spasmodic attacks
and the loss of consciousness.Twitching of the lower eyelid.
White, luminous, sudden vibrations, like reflections of light, at
twilight, on one side of the visual ray, all around.Ears (Magnetis Poli Ambo)
Electric shocks in the ear.
Fine whistling in the ear, coming and going like the pulse.
Hard hearing without noise in the ear.
Itching or itching burning in the meatus auditorius, early in the
morning when in bed.Loud strong whizzing in one of the ears, accompanied with headache
of the same side, as if a foreign body had lodged in the brain;
the pupil of this side is very much enlarged.Noise as of seething water in the ear.
The external ear feels hot to him, but is not hot.
Whizzing before the ears.
Nose (Magnetis Poli Ambo)
Burning pain at a small spot under the wing of the nose.
Illusion of smell
:
smell of manure before the nose, from time to time he imagines he has
a smell before the nose such as usually comes out of a chest full of
clothes which had been closed for a long while.Teeth and Jaws (Magnetis Poli Ambo)
I
Uniform pain
in the roots of the lower incisors, as if the teeth were bruised, sore
or corroded.Aching pain of the hollow, carious teeth.
Beating or jerking pressure, only in single jerks.
Darting tearing pain in the facial bones, especially the antrum
Highmorianum, in the evening.Drawing pain in the jaws extending as far as the temple, with a
crampy sensation in the muscles of mastication.Little ulcer in the centre of the inner surface of the lower lip,
painful to the touch.Looseness of the teeth.
Metallic taste on one side of the tongue.
Near the vermilion border of the upper lip, not far from the
corner, a white pimple, or a red inflamed little tubercle, painful
like a sore, in a state of rest, but most painful when moving or
touching the parts.Painful sensitiveness around the margin of the lips.
Tearing pain in the periosteum of the upper jaw, coming with a jerk
and extending as far as the orbit;
the pain consists in a tearing, boring, pricking and burning.The gums of a hollow tooth are swollen and painful to the touch.
Toothache, excited by stooping.
Violent grumbling in the teeth, even without any apparent cause.
When taking a cold drink, the coldness rushes into the teeth.
Mouth and Pharynx (Magnetis Poli Ambo)
II
Ptyalism
every evening with swollen lips.I
Bad smell from
the mouth which he does not perceive himself, also with much mucus in
the throat.I
Continual
fetid odor from the mouth, without himself perceiving it, as in
incipient mercurial ptyalism.Burning of the tongue, and pain of the same when eating.
Frequent accumulation of saliva in the mouth, almost like ptyalism,
with pain of the submaxillary glands.Pain in the velum pendulum palati, as when a large mouthful has
been forced down the throat.Pain of the submaxillary gland as if swollen, early in the morning,
in the open air.Shock in the teeth with burning.
Shocks in the jaws.
Single dull prickings in the submaxillary glands, in the evening.
Swelling of the throat, redness of the face and increased
palpitation of the heart.Tensive pain in the submaxillary gland.
Taste And Appetite (Magnetis Poli Ambo)
II
Hunger,
especially in the evening.I
Aversion to
tobacco, although he relished it.I
He has an
appetite, but the food has no taste.Beer tastes like water.
He has a desire for tobacco, milk, beer, and he relishes those
things;
but he feels satisfied immediately after commencing eating.Want of appetite without any loathing, repletion or bad smell.
Stomach (Magnetis Poli Ambo)
A sort of rushing through the stomach and the intestines, mingled
with stitches.Crackling and cracking in the pit of the stomach, as when a clock
is wound up.Eructations, tasting and smelling like the dust of sawed or turned
horn.Frequent attacks of unsuccessful or imperfect eructations.
Pain as from a bandage over the stomach, in both sides.
Pressure in the epigastrium, as from a stone, especially when
reflecting much.Pressure in the stomach with cramps in the direction of the upper
parts;
restlessness which did not permit her to remain at any one place ;
heaviness of the tongue, paleness of the face, and coldness of the
body, the pulse being very small, tight, unequal. This series of
symptoms appeared every day at the same hour, for ten days in
succession, in three females, decreasing progressively.Sensation of an agreeable distention in the region of the
diaphragm.Tensive aching and anxious repletion in the epigastrium.
The eructations taste of the ingesta, but as if spoiled.
When stooping, an acid substance rises from the stomach into his
mouth.Abdomen (Magnetis Poli Ambo)
II
Loud rumbling
in the abdomen, early in the morning when in bed ;
afterwards colic as if from incarceration of flatulence.II
Qualmish
sensation and painfulness in the intestines, as if one had taken a
resinous cathartic or rhubarb, with painful emission of hot, putrid
flatulence.Burning and digging-up in the abdomen like a heaving. Itching of
the umbilicus.Emission of short and broken flatulence, with loud noise and pains
in the anus.Every emission of flatulence is preceded by pinching in the
abdomen.Loud, although painless rumbling, especially in the lesser
intestines, extending under the pubic bones and into the groin, as if
diarrhea would come on.Putrid fermentation in the bowels, the flatulence has a fetid smell
and is very hot.Tensive and burning pain in the epigastrium and hypogastrium,
followed by a drawing and tensive pain in the calves.The flatulence moves about in the abdomen, with loud rumbling,
painless incarceration of flatulence in various small places of the
abdomen, causing a sharp aching pain and an audible grunting.Stool (Magnetis Poli Ambo)
II
Blind
hemorrhoids after soft stool, as if the varices on the margin of the
anus felt sore, both when sitting and walking.II
Constipation
as if the rectum were constricted and contracted.II
Itching
hemorrhoids.II
Prolapsus
recti when going to stool.II
Violent
hemorrhoidal pain in the anus after stool, erosive as if sore, and as
if the rectum were constricted.I
Burning at the
anus when sitting, as in hemorrhoids.Constipation with headache for several days, as if there were
something wrong in the brain;
the head is uniformly affected, the mind feeling vexed and impatient.Diarrhea without colic.
Frequent but almost unsuccessful urging to diarrhea in the morning,
alternating with rumbling of flatulence in the abdomen.Pain on either side of the anus, consisting of itching and
soreness, when walking in the open air.Urinary Organs (Magnetis Poli Ambo)
Burning in the bladder, especially in the region of the neck of the
bladder, a few minutes after urinating.Male Genital Organs (Magnetis Poli Ambo)
II
Early in the
morning he feels a burning in the region of the vesiculae seminales.II
Menses had
ceased a few days before, returned next day after imposing the
magnetic surface and continued ten days.II
Nightly
emissions of semen.II
The prepuce
retreats entirely behind the glans.II
Want of
sexual desire, aversion to an embrace.I
The penis
remains in a relaxed condition, in spite of all sexual excitement.I
Violent
continuous erections, early in the morning when in bed, without any
sexual desire.Burning in the urethra, in the region of the caput gallinaginis,
during an emission of semen.Burning smarting under the prepuce.
Increased metrorrhagia in a woman advanced in age.
Itching smarting of the inner surface of the prepuce.
Swelling of the epididymis, with simple pain when feeling it or
during motion.Larynx (Magnetis Poli Ambo)
II
Mucus in the
trachea which is easily hawked up, evening and morning.II
Violent fit
of cough, with profuse expectoration of blood.I
Convulsive
cough.Frequent fits of nightly cough which does not wake him.
In the evening, after lying down, he has a violent fit of dry
cough, sometimes during sleep.Violent but short-lasting attack of dry cough in the night and at
other periods, followed by slight discharge of ordinary mucus from the
trachea.Chest And Lungs (Magnetis Poli Ambo)
I
Spasmodic
cough, with shocks in the chest and anxious breathing, and visible
oppression of the chest.A shock in the upper part of the sternum, causing cough and
lachrymation.Asthma after midnight when waking and reflecting, occasioned by
mucus in the chest, diminished by coughing.Burning emanation from the left shoulder through the chest toward
the right side, as if the parts would be severed.Four burning emanations from the middle of the chest toward either
shoulder and side, back, and small of the back, with anxiety, and
sensation as if the parts were being dissected.Intolerable burning stitches in the muscles of the side of the
chest, toward the back.Pricking in the chest, and a cold shuddering burning through the
whole body.Tearing extending from the right side into the inner parts of the
abdomen, mingled with prickings and shocks, as if small pieces of
flesh were being torn out, or as if fiery sparks were flying about.Violent oppression of the chest, tearing in the stomach and bowels,
and beating in the shoulders.Back (Magnetis Poli Ambo)
II
Pain in
sacro-lumbar articulation, in the morning when in bed lying on the
side, and in daytime when stooping a long time.I
Shock or jerk
in the small of the back, almost arresting the breathing.Burning emanation from the stomach through the abdomen and back,
separating in the small of the back and extending into the lower
limbs.Burning in the dorsal spine.
Crackling in the cervical vertebra in the morning during motion.
Pain in the back when standing or sitting quiet.
Pain in the omo-hyoid muscle, as if it would be attacked with
cramp.Painful stiffness of the cervical vertebra in the morning, during
motion.Twitching of the muscles of the back, and sensation as if something
were alive in them.Upper Limbs (Magnetis Poli Ambo)
II
Drawing from
the head down to the tip of the fingers.I
Deep-seated
pain in the arm, extending as far as the elbow, the arm going to sleep
and trembling spasmodically.I
Prickings in
the arm.Arthritic digging up, and boring pain in a spot of the lower joint
of the thumb during rest.Beating and throbbing in all the joints of the arms and fingers.
Beating in the top of the shoulder with sensation as if torn.
Burning and cutting in the arms and chest, with cold shuddering.
Burning in the elbow joint, as if torn by hot pincers, with violent
burning and sparkling of the eyes.Burning in the right arm, as from fiery sparks.
Burning pain in the surface of the arm in various parts.
Continuous burning stitch, accompanied with sore feeling in the
thickest part of the muscles of the palm of hand and calf of the leg;
afterwards in the lower part of the tibia.Digging-up around the wrist, elbow, and shoulder-joints.
Drawing pain in either shoulder, and down the nape of neck, with
beating in either arm.Drawing pain in the upper part of the lower arm.
In the evening the legs and thighs go to sleep.
In the evening, between the sixth and seventh hours, he feels a
tearing and bruised pain in the joints of the arm, more during rest
than when bending the arm;
the pain returns in twenty-four hours.Pain in the humeral articulation, or in the ligaments, as if the
head of the bone were dislocated, not only as if bruised, or sprained
and twisted.Pain as if sprained and bruised, in the morning when in bed, in the
lower joint of the thumb, when moving or bending it.Pain in the muscles of the arm, as if they would be divided into
fine parts.Pain in the wrist-joint, as if a tendon had become strained, or as
if an electric shock were passing through the parts.Painless shocks in the elbow.
Prickling and digging-up pain in the tip of the thumb, in the
evening after lying down.Pulling in the joints and muscles of the arm.
Shocks in the arm-joints and head, as if those parts were beaten
with a light and small hammer.Shocks in the top of the shoulder which caused the arms to recede
from the hody with a jerk.Sudden bending, and sensation as if dislocated in the first and
second joints of the thumb.Tearing in the joints of the thumb in the evening when in bed.
Tearing jerkings in the muscles of the arm when staying in a cold
place.The arms are gently elevated, or even crossed as if by spasm
;
one of the arms is spasmodically tossed, either horizontally or
vertically.The fingers are liable to be bent and strained.
The hands are icy cold the whole day, for several days, from
touching the centre of the bar.Twitching jerking in the muscles of the thumb and in those of the
chin.Uneasiness in the sound arm.
While removing the magnets from the arms, the fingers, hands and
arms become curved and even entirely contracted, in a state of
unconsciousness.Lower Limbs (Magnetis Poli Ambo)
Attacks of cramp in the calves and toes after waking.
Burning and sore pain of the corn, which is generally painless when
commencing to walk.Burning tearing in the left leg, mingled with creeping.
Drawing from the hips to the feet, leaving a burning along that
tract.Fiery burning in the upper and lower limbs
;
when the right limb touched the left one, it seemed as if the latter
were set on fire by the former.In the evening, prickings with burning in the soft parts on the
side of the heel.In the morning after rising and when attempting to walk, he feels a
pain in the tarsal-joint and beyond it, as if sprained.Pain as if bruised in the fleshy part of the leg, on the outer side
of the tibia, in the evening when walking.Pain from the hip down the limb, as if the parts were being divided
by a fine instrument.Pain in the upper part of the tarsal joints, as if the shoe had
pinched him, and as if a corn were there.Painful going to sleep of the thighs and legs when sitting,
disappearing when walking.Painful sensitiveness and soreness in the region of the root of the
nail of the big toe, and in the skin over the root, even when merely
touching it.Pricking from the knee to the feet.
Sensation in the upper part of the calf, when rising from a seat,
as if it were too short.Shocks in the knee, causing the leg to be stretched spasmodically.
Sore pain under the nail of the big toe of either foot, as if the
shoe had pinched him, and as if the nail would come off by
suppuration.Stitches in the ball of the heel.
Stitches in the leg.
Tearing pain in the heel, setting in with a jerk, passing off
immediately, but returning from time to time.Throbbing in the left knee.
Violent shocks of the right lower limb, occasioned by a burning
emanation from the chin and neck through the right side.Sleep (Magnetis Poli Ambo)
II
Early in the
morning he sleeps on his back, one of his hands lying under the
occiput, the other over the region of the stomach, the knees being
apart, with moaning inspirations, half-opened mouth, and,
low muttering, dreaming of amorous things and emissions, although no
emission takes place ;
headache in the occiput after waking, as after an involuntary emission
of semen, with asthma, and bruised pain in all the joints, going off
after rising and during motion, with copious expulsion of catarrhal
mucus.II
He wakes at
three o’clock in the night ;
in a few hours he falls into a sopor full of dreams ;
afterwards, feeling of heat in the limbs without thirst, the limbs
requiring to be uncovered at first, but afterwards covered carefully.I
Dreams full of
feasting, boasting, and bragging.I
Lascivious
dreams, even during the siesta, with discharge of the prostatic fluid.I
Vivid dreams,
as if he saw the thing taking place in his waking state.Coma vigil early in the morning for several hours
;
after sunrise, sopor or deep sleep set in, full of heavy, passionate
dreams, for instance, vexing dreams ;
the sopor terminates in a headache as if the brain were sore all over,
disappearing after rising.Early in the morning when waking, the mouth is covered with thick,
almost dry mucus, and the eyelids are dry;
both these symptoms disappear after sneezing and after a discharge of
mucus from the nose.He wakes at three o’clock in the morning
;
at sunrise his eyelids close again, and he lies in a sort of stupor
full of heavy dreams.In the evening before lying down, he is attacked with symptoms of a
catarrhal fever;
the long bones are painful as if bruised in the middle ;
accompanied with dull headache causing a cloudiness ;
he is hoarse, and the chest is lined with tenacious mucus.In the morning, after waking, the flatulence increases in the
abdomen, with loud grumbling;
there is emission of flatulence, violent sneezing, copious discharge
of mucus from the nose and yawning ;
all this soon goes off again.Sleep disturbed by dreams full of oppression and anxiety,
resembling nightmare.Sweat without heat, early in the morning while asleep, or mild
copious exhalation of the whole body, which is not exhausting, and
disappears after waking.The pains in the limbs soon decrease after waking
;
but in exchange for those pains he is attacked with as painful a
headache, increased after rising to a headache such as is felt when a
dry coryza is setting in, but disappearing again by sudden sneezing
and discharge of mucus from one nostril.Tossing about in bed during sleep.
Wakeful drowsiness in the night, toward morning, he hears every
noise and has some power of thinking;
after sunrise the drowsiness increases to a stupor, during which he
hears or feels nothing, except violent pain as after a long journey on
foot, and a bruised feeling in all the joints, obliging him to change
the position of the limbs constantly, accompanied with loud grumbling
in the abdomen, which is interrupted from time to time by emission of
flatulence, and a disagreeable feeling of warmth in the body ;
during which time he generally lies on his back with the mouth open.When asleep he snores during an inspiration, and wheezes through
the nose during an expiration.Fever (Magnetis Poli Ambo)
Disagreeable, troublesome warmth in the whole body, with sweat in
the face, without thirst.Dry heat, early in the morning when in bed.
Fever after midnight, no shuddering
;
disagreeable sensation of heat in the whole body, especially in the
palms of the hands and soles of the feet, with dryness in the throat
and sweat in the face, nape of the neck or over the whole body.General sweat after midnight.
Heat without thirst in the night, requiring one to lie uncovered.
Hot and creeping sensation in the affected part.
Imperceptible exhalation of the whole body, having a strong,
pungent, though not disagreeable smell, resembling the exhalation
which is perceived from a healthy man while sweating.Profuse sweat with shuddering.
Shuddering over the whole body, partly cold, partly burning, and
causing an intense pain.Slight sweat in the night, especially where the magnet lay.
Sweat in the region of the stomach.
Sweat over the whole body, especially in the back, early in the
morning while asleep.Skin (Magnetis Poli Ambo)
A continuous itching-pricking, here and there, terminating in a
burning.Boils break out on various parts of the body, passing off soon.
Burning itching below the joints, after lying down, even for the
mere purpose of taking a nap;
it cannot be appeased by scratching.Burning itching where the magnet lay, obliging one to scratch until
blood came out;
the skin is red, and round about small pimples are visible, passing
off soon.Burning stinging pain in various soft parts of the body, not in the
joints;
it is more or less continuous.Corrosive pains in various parts, for example, below the ankle.
Creeping, and sensation as if all the fluids were accumulating in
the region where the magnet is applied. Small pimples on the chest.Deep, lentil-sized ulcers at the place where the magnet lay.
Extremely itching eruption where the magnet lay.
In the evening, after having got warm in bed, he feels single
burning stitches here and there, terminating in a smarting sensation.Itching of the affected parts, the pain is increased by scratching
;
it is like a sort of burning in a sore place.Large pimples around the place where the magnet lay.
Pricking, moaning, fluttering sort of a pain at a small place, for
instance, in the sole of the feet, as is felt in a limb previous to
going to sleep.Red eruption in the palms of the hands resembling watery vesicles.
Red eruption, red spots.
Secretion of a reddish humor from the wound.
Simple, continuous itching of the soft parts, remaining unchanged
after scratching.Single stitches in soft parts, here and there, for instance in the
ball of the thumb.The recent wound commences to bleed again.
The skin under the magnet is painful and corroded, and is
surrounded by itch-like pustules.The wound, which is almost healed, commences to pain again like a
recent wound.Wide-spread eruption of pimples and blisters, with drawing and
pricking pain;
also, red spots here and there.General Symptoms (Magnetis Poli Ambo)
II
Shuddering
movement through whole body.II
The trunk,
while in a recumbent position, is jerked up spasmodically as it were,
the head being jerked forward upon the bed, and then again backward
upon the cushion.I
Dull, numb
pain.I
Jerking shock,
causing the trunk to bend violently upward and forward as low down as
the hips, with cries.I
The joints are
painful when touched.I
The place
where the magnet had been imposed goes to sleep, becomes numb and
insensible.I
The upper part
of the body is spasmodically lifted and jerked forward, and then again
backward on one side.A sort of starting through the body, afterwards sweat on either
hand.Bruised pain in the joints of that side on which one rests, in the
evening when in bed.Bruised pain of all the joints, or rheumatic pain of the ligaments
of the arms and of all the joints of the chest, back, and nape of the
neck, during motion and during an expiration.Burning and pricking pains.
Burning emanation from the head, down the right side
;
immediately after, the whole body is covered with sweat.Burning emanations through every part of the body in every
direction.Drawing and pricking pain, mingled with itching.
During the burning pains there was neither external heat, nor
redness of the parts.During the loss of consciousness the fingers are moved one after
the other;
after the return of consciousness a profuse sweat breaks out.Early in the morning, when lying on the side, he feels a
continuous, intolerable, simple or bruised pain in all the joints,
where the cartilages of the two bones touch one another;
the pain abates as soon as one turns on the back, with the head bent
backward, and the knees bent and at a distance from one another.Fits of fainting, palpitation of the heart, and suffocation.
Heaviness in all the limbs, and palpitation of the heart from
omitting the usual imposition of the magnets.In the morning, when lying in bed, and resisting a desire for an
embrace, he is attacked with a kind of arthritic pain in the small of
the back, knees and all the joints;
the pains are bruised or weary pains.Intolerable burning from the head to the feet, with pain as if the
limbs were being torn and divided.Languor in all the limbs, accompanied with a swoon, which lasts but
a short while and returns several times.Long-lasting swoons, in which she retained her consciousness.
Loss of consciousness with staring eyes, open mouth, almost
imperceptible inspirations, and a movement in the chest which is
almost like palpitation of the heart, the pulse remaining unchanged
and having its ordinary quality.None of the convulsions excited by the magnet after the pulse.
Paralysis for ten days, with loss of sensation, the limb having its
natural temperature and being moist.Paralytic pain in all the joints, especially those of the small of
the back, loins and chest, or pain as if the joints were crushed,
broken and bruised;
worse during motion and when standing, accompanied with a drawing and
tearing sensation, especially in the ligaments and tendons, where they
are inserted in the bones, particularly early in the morning after
rising, and in the evening before lying down ;
the parts are painless when touched ;
the pains are relieved by emission of flatulence ;
an increase of pain obliges one to close the eyes.Sensation as of flying sparks over the body.
Sensation in every part as if cut up.
Sensation in the limbs during motion, as is felt in the arm when
knocking the ulnar nerve in the region of the elbow against anything
hard.Shocks deprive him of consciousness.
Swoon, during which she feels her pain, but is unable to complain
on account of an inability to speak or move. Insensibility and deadly
sopor.The joints are painful when moving the limbs, as if they had been
sprained.The limbs go to sleep, especially when standing or walking, after
rising from a seat.The places on which the magnets lie, burn as if hot coal were lying
near them.The spasmodic risings and jerkings of the body forward, are
followed by a long-lasting loss of consciousness, followed by blowing
with the mouth as when one experiences a great heat;
after which consciousness and cheerfulness return.Violent shocks causing a general tremor of the body, burning in the
chest and through either arm, and sweat all over.Copyright
© Robert Séror 2005