Introduction
(South Pole of the Magnet).
Mind And Disposition
After walking in the open air he feels quarrelsome and peevish.
After an evening nap he feels exceedingly peevish and ill humored.
He is liable to start when touched.
Want of cheerfulness; he is low-spirited, as if he were alone, or as if he had experienced some sad event, for three hours.
Weeping immediately.
Despondency (the first hours).
Great discouragement, dissatisfaction with himself.
Want of disposition to work, and vexed mood.
Taciturn, he is not disposed to talk.
He wants to be alone, company is disagreeable to him.
Cheerful faces are disagreeable to him.
Violent anger excited by a slight cause, he becomes trembling and hurried, and used violent language.
Wild, vehement, rude, both in language and action ( he does not perceive it himself); he asserts with violence, reviling others, with distorted countenance.
Feeling of warmth, gradually increasing to heat (in a woman in the magnetic sleep, after touching the south pole of the magnet).
Great quickness of fancy.
Sensorium
Unsteadiness of the mind, he is unable to fix his ideas; things seem to flit to and fro before his senses; his opinions and resolutions are wavering, which occasions a kind of anxious and uneasy condition of the mind.
This mental disturbance is removed by touching the metallic zinc.
Vertigo as if intoxicated, as if he were obliged to stagger, some vertigo even while sitting.
Head
Rush of blood to the head, without heat.
Heaviness of the head, with a sort of creeping or fine digging in the head.
Fine crawling in the brain as of a number of insects, accompanied with heaviness of the head.
Creeping in the vertex, as if something were running about there, and a sort of tearing.
Shocks in either temple.
Pain in the right side of the forehead, composed of tearing and beating.
A few beatings over the forehead, accompanied with a tearing pain.
Tearing at a small spot on the left temple.
Drawing-tearing pain in the left brain, resembling a slow burning stitch.
Pressure in the occiput, in alternate places.
Headache, pressure on the top of the head, or in either temple, an intense violent pain, as is felt in a catarrh, being violent when sitting straight, more so when shaking the head or when reflecting, diminishing when walking, and disappearing almost entirely when bending the head forward or backward (in the first hours).
Headache in the occiput, most violent in the room, but disappearing in the open air (in the first hours).
Creeping, mixed with prickings, in the anterior and middle part of the forehead, in the evening.
Sharp, pointed aching pain in the left side of the head, with pressure from within outward; continuous stitch accompanied with pressure (relieved by the north pole).
Simple and tensive pain over the whole brain, commencing while walking in the open air, and speedily going off in the room.
Pulsative beating in the right side of the head, when lying down.
Jerkings in the head.
Spasmodic contractive headache in the region between the eyebrows.
A certain spot in the hairy scalp is painful as if bruised, still more so when touched.
A glandular tubercle in the nape of the neck becomes suddenly inflamed, the skin all around was painful as if sore, and the least touch was unpleasant to it.
The skin on the forehead feels as if dried fast to the skull.
Face
Sensation in the face (and in the rest of the body) as if cold air were blowing upon it.
Blunt stitches in the cheek.
Eyes
Slow, burning stitch in the margin of the eyelid.
Watery eyes from time to time.
Erosive pain, morning and evening, especially in the outer canthus, and when touching the eyelids, as if a hair had lodged in the eye, a sort of inflammation of the margin of the eyelids.
Painful, smarting dryness of the eyelids, especially perceptible when moving them, mostly in the evening and morning.
Swelling of the Meibomian glands of the lower eyelid, in the morning, as if a stye would form, but the pain was merely aching.
Smarting in the inner canthus (in the morning).
Pressure and dull sticking in the left eye.
Spasmodic contraction of one of the eyes, in the morning.
The skin around the eyes is sore.
When holding the magnet to the eye, he feels a little coldness in the eye for a short time, but a severe itching in the eyelids.
The eyes feel agglutinated in the morning.
Beating and itching in the eye.
Deficient sight: things looked dim, also double, when touching the nape of the neck.
Faintish sort of cloudiness, with disposition to sit down; the objects seem veiled; afterwards they become much more distinct and much brighter than before, accompanied with an ecstatic mood.
In the commencement the dilatation of the pupils is easier, and their contraction more difficult.
Ears
An almost painless drawing behind the ear from below upwards, and extending into the head, almost continuous.
Tearing pains in the cartilages of the outer and inner ear, extending very nearly as far as the inner cavities.
Roaring in the ears, which he felt more in the upper part of the head.
Noise in the ears, like the motion of a wing.
Sensation as of the whizzing of the wind in the ears, early in the morning; he feels it as far as the forehead.
Inflammation of the outer ear, the grooves of that portion of the ear assuming the appearance of sore rhagades.
Occasional stitches and ringing in the ear.
Painful jerk in the ear as if its parts would be pressed asunder: a sort of otalgia.
Sensation as if a cold wind were blowing upon the ears.
Sensation as of warm breathing upon the outer ear.
Two painful vesicles on the right side of the neck below the ear.
Jaws and Teeth
Pain of the submaxillary gland, as if swollen.
The skin under the chin is painful, as if sore.
Toothache, aggravated by warm drink.
Tearing jerking in the upper jaw towards the eye, in the evening.
Dull pain with intensely painful stitches in hollow teeth.
Mouth
Single stitches in the left margin of the tongue.
Sensation of swelling in the tongue, and heat in the organs of speech.
Throat
Sore feeling in the throat during and between the acts of deglutition.
Putrid smell from the throat, early in the morning (the mouth being clean) not perceptible to himself.
Burning in the pharynx, a sort of strangulation from below upwards, with a feeling of heat.
Heat in the organs of speech, with difficulty of speech; sensation as if the tongue were swollen.
Accumulation of a quantity of watery saliva from the mouth, flowing out of the mouth when stooping.
Appetite and Taste
Slight appetite, without loathing or abnormal taste, the general health being good.
Indifference to eating, drinking or smoking; he relishes the food, but he has not desire for it, and is satiated before beginning to eat.
Indifference to milk, bordering on aversion, early in the morning.
Food and coffee taste bitter to him.
Food has no bad, but too little taste.
Metallic taste, partly sweetish, partly sourish, now in the upper, then in the lower part of the tongue, with a feeling of coldness, as from saltpetre.
He loses his taste while eating warm food; the taste returns after eating.
White wine has an acrid taste to him, after taking a swallow he feels a violent aversion to it.
Canine hunger, in the midst of his feverish chilliness.
Canine hunger, noon and evening.
Want of hunger, immediately.
Nausea And Vomiting
Inclination to vomit, early in the morning after waking.
Inclination to vomit, shortly after dinner.
Fits of nausea when stooping forward, apparently in the stomach.
Eructations of mere air.
Emission of flatulence after dinner.
Stomach
Pain in the stomach, as when one presses upon a bruised spot; after eating, this pain gradually passes into the intestines.
A kind of violent aching pain in the pit of the stomach, occasioned by a continued exertion of the mind.
Abdomen
A kind of griping, directly over the umbilicus.
Loud rumbling in the abdomen.
Flatulent colic, early in the morning when in bed.
Pinching in the abdomen, brought on by a draft of air.
The flatulence is pressed upwards, below the short ribs; flatulent colic in the hypochondria, in the evening.
Colic after supper: sharp pressure here and there throughout the bowels; during motion the colic becomes intolerable, and passes off suddenly while at rest without emission of flatulence. Flatulent colic at night: portions of flatulence seem to spring from one place to another, which is painful, and causes a disagreeable grumbling sensation, or a sore pinching pressure from within outward in many places, depriving him of sleep; short flatus goes off now and then with pain, but affords no relief.
Flatulent colic early in the morning after rising; the flatulence is pressed toward the diaphragm, causing intensely painful dull stitches.
Drawing pain in the right side of the abdomen, scarcely permitting him to walk.
