Magnetis Polus arcticus – Medicine



He relishes his supper, but soon after he has a flat taste in the mouth, and feels a heat in the lobules of the ears.

Mind and Disposition

      Out of humor and weary.

Weeping mood, with chilliness and a disposition to feel chilly.

Sadness, in the evening; he had to weep, contrary to his will, after which his eyes felt sore.

He felt in the evening as if it were difficult for him to commence the execution of his designs, and it was long before he made a beginning; but as soon as he had commenced, he carried out his designs with great promptness.

Indolent fancy; he sometimes felt as if he had no fancy at all.

When sitting, he felt as if he had lost all powers of motion, and had grown fast to the chair.

Indolent mind.

Anxious, desponding, inconsolable, self-reproaching mood.

Sleep ceased at three o’clock in the morning, and he became anxious; he became solicitous about his health as if he were dangerously sick; he became gloomy; he grudged every word he was obliged to utter.

Exaggerated, over-scrupulous solicitude.

Irritated and vexed mood; he does not like to be interrupted in his work, and, nevertheless, he does not accomplish anything.

While attending to his business, he talks aloud to himself.

He makes mistakes easily in writing.

He would like to work a great deal, and does not satisfy himself; he thinks he does things slowly.

He is alternately sad and cheerful.

Acts as if he were frightened and timid (immediately).

Despondency.

Anxious scrupulousness (immediately).

Hasty, bold, quick, firm.

Calm, composed mood, devoid of care.

Alternately cheerful and sad, the whole day.

Cheerfulness and feeling of great strength, alternate with want of courage and weakness.

Genital organs

      Continuous smarting pain in the raphe of the prepuce, after urinating.

Itching smarting of the inner surface of the prepuce, obliging one to rub at night when in bed.

Sharp stitches in the left testicle when laying the thighs across one another.

Nightly involuntary emission.

Excessive erection with excessive desire for an embrace and an emission of semen.

Relaxation of the penis and diminished desire for an embrace.

Strangulating pain in the right testicle.

Sharp drawing and cutting in the testicles.

The menses, which ought to have appeared immediately, appeared after the lapse of twenty hours, increased within twenty-four hours beyond the quantity in which they usually appeared and which was less than ought to have been, until the quantity became normal, without any secondary symptoms (curative effect).

Jaws and Teeth.

Crampy-aching pain in the left submaxillary gland.

Crushing-aching, or pinching pain in the submaxillary glands, without the glands being either touched or moved, as is felt in acute swelling of the throat.

Tearing pain in the cervical muscles, as if too weary.

Painful cramp in the cervical muscles, from one ear to the other.

Drawing in the left jaw and the left cheek.

Tensive pain in the left upper jaw, early in the morning on waking.

Painful drawing in the articulation of the lower jaw when moving it, as if it would be dislocated by force.

Drawing-aching pain coming from the temple, below the mastoid process, between the sternocleidomastoid muscle and the ramus of the lower jaw.

Tensive pain the left submaxillary gland.

Cramp-like toothache in the right lower jaw.

Toothache as if the tooth would be torn out, worse after a meal, and when sitting or lying down, improving when walking.

Toothache in the direction of the eye, a very quick sensation of pricking in the hollow tooth, with swollen inflamed gums and a red and burning cheek; the toothache increased very much immediately after a meal, improved when walking in the open air, but aggravated in a smoky room.

Throbbing in the hollow tooth (immediately), followed by a pressure in the tooth as if something had got into the tooth, with drawing in the temples.

Throbbing in the tooth, with burning in the gums, and swollen, red, hot cheeks, with burning pain and heating in the cheeks, in the afternoon.

The toothache ceases when walking in the open air, and returns in the room.

Aching in the hollow teeth, with swelling of one side of the face.

Toothache with jerks through the periosteum of the jaw, the pain being a darting-aching, digging – tearing, or burning- stinging pain.

The toothache is worse after eating and in the warm room.

Numbness and insensibility of the gums of the painful tooth.

Drawing pain in the hollow tooth and fore teeth, increased by anything warm with redness of the cheek during the pain.

Swelling of the gums of a hollow tooth, painful when touched with the tongue.

Toothache, as if the gums were sore or cut, increased by the air entering the mouth.

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.