Magnetis Polus arcticus – Medicine


Magnetis Polus arcticus [M-arct]…


Introduction

      (North-pole of the magnet).

General symptoms

      Continuous digging-up stitches in various parts, becoming sharper and more painful, in proportion as they penetrate more deeply into the flesh.

Darting jerks in the part touched by the magnet (immediately).

Tremulous, vibrating, numb sensation.

Sensation as if the blood were rushing to the place touched by the magnet, as if the blood would come out there.

Twitching in the adjoining parts.

Twitching and beating near the part touched by the magnet.

Tensive sensation in the adjoining parts.

Bruised pain in the adjoining parts, and as if one had carried a heavy burden.

Creeping in the adjoining parts as if they were going to sleep.

Tremulousness through the whole body, especially in the feet.

Tremor in the part touched by the magnet (immediately).

Nervousness with trembling, uneasiness in the limbs, great distension of the abdomen, anxiety, solicitude, and great nervous weakness.

Sensation of coldness in the part which was touched by the magnet.

Warm sensation in the adjoining parts.

Drawing in the periosteum of all the bones, as is felt at the commencement of an intermittent fever (but without chilliness or heat). In the right side of the tongue, in the neck and across the foot he feels a sudden drawing, or a movement to and fro, and jerks resembling stitches.

Heaviness in single limbs (with a sensation as if their strength had increased).

Sensation of dryness and tightness in the body, with want of strength.

He is very faint, had to rest himself while walking in the open air, and was melancholy and desponding.

The faintness, the bruised and painful sensation in the limbs were worse in the open air.

In the morning there was a general faintness with a sweat as of anguish; want of appetite at dinner; he had to lie down, afterwards diarrhoea.

In the morning she felt so languid that she was scarcely able to drag herself along, as if oppressed by a sultry atmosphere.

Sensorium

      (Vertigo, sensation as if she would fall in every direction.) Vertiginous motion in one side of the head.

After having gone up stairs, she feels a motion from the center of the brain towards either ear like the pendulum of a clock.

Sensation as if his understanding were arrested, and as if something were pressing his brain down, and the eyes out, a sort of fainting turn.

Sensation of intoxication, like a humming in the head.

Dullness of the head with desire for open air.

Weak memory, but he feels cheerful.

Head

      Two days in succession he wakes from his siesta with a violent headache, as if the brain were bruised and obtuse; the headache decreases after he is fully awake, and disappears gradually after rising.

Headache, consisting in a sore and bruised pain in the surface of the brain, in the sinciput and in one of the temples.

The head feels bruised and as if dashed to pieces in one of the hemispheres.

A shock in one side of the head in the morning in bed.

Sensation as if the head were pressed down by a load.

Pressure as from something hard in several parts of the brain. (A good deal of heat in the head).

Disagreeable, compressive sensation in the head, and as if one part of the brain were pressed in.

The head is concussed by the sound of a hammer.

Headache, especially when raising or moving the eyes.

Tensive sensation in the brain behind the forehead, extending down to the root of the nose.

Stitches in the upper part of the forehead, in the morning after rising, until afternoon.

Headache, as if the temples were pressed asunder.

Violent headache the whole afternoon, as if the brain were pressed asunder.

Rush of blood to the head, and suffusion of heat in the cheeks.

Drawing-boring pain in the right temple, accompanied with a spasmodic pain below the right malar bone.

Pressure in the right temple, when walking in the open air, causing a dullness of the head.

Aching pain over the left temporal region, externally.

Tearing in the head behind the right ear, with sensation as of a shock, gradually moving to the front of the head, when walking in the open air.

Pushing tearing in the head behind the left ear when sitting.

Tension of the scalp as if firmly adhering to the skull, causing a dullness of the head (for several hours.) Pressure in the articulation of the condyles of the occiput with the atlas from within outward, obliging him to bend the head forward constantly.

Aching pain in the left side of the forehead.

Aching pain in the outer parts over the right eyebrow.

Tubercles on the hairy scalp, painful when touched.

Smarting itching of the hairy scalp.

Eyes

      Cold movements as of a cold breath in the eyes.

The eyes protrude.

Staring look.

Fine prickings in the left eye.

Burning, continuous stitch in the upper eyelid.

Vesicle on the margin of the upper eyelid, pressing on the eye.

Painful sensitiveness of the eyelids when reading.

Itching in the inner canthus and in the margin of the eyelids.

Painful feeling of dryness in the eyelids in the morning on waking.

Jerking and drawing in the eyelids.

Drawing in the eyelids with lachrymation.

Pricking in the eyelids.

Agglutination of the eyelids in the morning.

Lachrymation early in the morning.

Excessive lachrymation; the light of the sun is intolerable.

Dilation of the pupils, they contract but little in the light (immediately).

Contraction of the pupils during the first hours.

Stinging in the canthus and the left cheek.

Sensation as of sand in the eye.

Itching in the eye.

Burning in the weak right eye; it became red and filled with water ( the magnet being held in contact with the weak right eye for a quarter of an hour.).

Coldness in the weak eye for three or four minutes (the magnet being held in contact with that eye for two minutes).

Coldness of the weak eye, as if the eye were a piece of ice; as the coldness passed off a long-continued pricking was felt in the eye.

Pricking sensation in the eye, resembling the tick of a watch.

Uneasy motion of the eye, with a good deal of water accumulating in either eye.

Sensation as of a cobweb in front of the eyes.

Glare in the eye as of a shooting star.

Formication between the two eyes.

Strong drawing over the eye, in the surface of the cheek, ear, extending into the upper maxillary bone (the magnet being in contact with the eye).

Ears

      Stitch darting from the Eustachian tube to the interior of the ear (when stooping).

Fine ringing in the opposite ear (immediately).

A few tearings in the interior of the right ear, resembling otalgia.

Whizzing and a drawing sensation in the ear.

Tightness of the tympanum.

Crackling in the ear as of burning, dry wood (when holding the magnet in the ear).

Warmth and roaring in the ear, as when water is boiling and bubbling (holding the magnet in the ear).

Ringing in the ear of the same side.

Heat and pricking sensation in the ear (holding the magnet in the ear).

A kind of deafness, as if a pellicle had been drawn over the right ear, after which heat is felt in the ear.

Nose

      Illusion of smell; he imagined the room smelled of fresh whitewash and dust, he imagines the room smells of rotten eggs, or of the contents of a privy.

Violent bleeding at the nose, for three afternoons in succession, increasing every afternoon, and preceded by an aching pain in the forehead.

Sore pain in the nostrils, even without touching or moving them.

Redness and heat of the tip of the nose, followed by hot, red, circumscribed spots on the cheeks.

Pimples on the right wing of the nose, with a stinging- itching sensation.

Face

      Intensely-painful tightness in the face, extending as far as the tonsils.

Drawing in the left cheek.

Innumerable prickings in the cheek, with feeling of heat, without any heat being perceptible to others.

Suffusion of heat in the cheeks, with rush of blood to the head. Tubercle in the face, near the nose, feeling sore when touched; when not touched, a few rare slow stitches are felt in

it.

Mouth

      Sore pain in the left corner of the mouth, when moving it, as if an ulcer would form.

Slow, extremely sharp and painful prickings in the lower lip.

Small pimples on the inner surface of the upper lip.

Itching in the forepart of the tongue, obliging one to rub and scratch.

Accumulation of saliva in the mouth (immediately).

Pain in the left upper incisors, as if something hard were pressing upon them, breaking them.

Pain of the incisors on inspiring air.

Toothache when eating, the teeth feel loose, and as if they would bend over.

Painful humming in the hollow teeth of the lower jaw, worse on the right side, the toothache ceases during eating.

Stomach

      Eructation, with a sort of painful jerk.

Frequent eructations of mere air.

The magnet seems to favor acidity of the stomach.

The tongue is very much coated and covered with mucus; aversion to milk.

Stomach feels as if deranged; food weights heavily in his stomach.

Sudden griping in the pit of the stomach.

Throbbing in the pit of the stomach (immediately).

H. C. Allen
Dr. Henry C. Allen, M. D. - Born in Middlesex county, Ont., Oct. 2, 1836. He was Professor of Materia Medica and the Institutes of Medicine and Dean of the faculty of Hahnemann Medical College. He served as editor and publisher of the Medical Advance. He also authored Keynotes of Leading Remedies, Materia Medica of the Nosodes, Therapeutics of Fevers and Therapeutics of Intermittent Fever.