A mild disposition, or a tendency to chilliness in the subject of treatment, directs the practitioner first to the north pole when he can only find the symptoms similar to those of the case in hand under the general magnet symptoms.
The duration of action of a moderate dose of magnetic power is upwards of ten days.
When the magnet has been improperly selected, the resulting sufferings, which are sometimes very severe, will be at least alleviated by the occasional administration of small electrical double sparks. But they will be more generally and permanently removed by laying the outspread hand on a pretty large zinc plate for half an hour.
If the practitioner has to send the magnet as a remedy to a patient at a distance, he can, if he will, easily prepare one himself, by attending to the following directions, which I have, after multiplied trials, found to be the best.
We require for our purpose a rod of good German or English steel, about eight inches in length and two or two and a half lines in breadth and one line thick, which should be hardened spring-hard (not glass-hard), and a strong horse-shoe magnet that can lift from ten to twelve pounds.
Now, in order to impart to the steel rod easily and rapidly the strongest magnetic power it is capable of obtaining in this way, the plan of stoking without regularity and right away over the rod, so that the pole of the magnet used for stroking, is as it were torn away at the end of the rod, is improper, for the magnetic power communicated to the rod during the stroke is to a great extent taken away again thereby, and cannot be replaced by frequent repetition of the stroking.
Hence the stroking pole of the magnet must, each time it is brought almost to the end of the rod, be made to slide over a sharpened soft tin plate that covers the extreme end of the rod, whereby an imperceptible harmless transference is affected from the rod to the plate, and the magnet can then be removed without injury from the rod we wish to magnetize, whose end lies beneath the tin plate.
But the tin plate, where it covers the end of the rod, must be bent and run underneath the rod, and come up over the opposite end of the rod, covering it in a similar manner, so that by means of this strip of tin plate a connection of the magnetic stream is maintained between both poles of the rod.
For this purpose, we take a strip of thin, soft tin plate, some lines longer than the rod to be magnetized; the rod is laid upon it, then the ends of the strip of tin plate must be bent in the form of a hook over the ends of the rod, so that the poles of the rod are covered by these hooked extremities to a very small extent, but they must lie in close contact with the poles of the rod, and their extremities being sharpened they will lie on the ends of the poles of the rod quite thin, so that, in stroking, the magnet passes without an obstacle just before the end of the rod on to the extremities of the tin plate, slides over the latter and thus can be drawn from the end of the tin plate without injury.
Each of the ends of the tin plate, bent into the form of a book, should be marked, one with N (north), the other with S (south), and the N end should lie horizantally pointing to the north, and continue to lie, or something similar. The two halves made thereby are each marked with two strokes, one of which is placed on the second third of the remaining portion, as shown by the points indicated below.
Then the south pole of the horse-shoe, magnet is placed perpendicularly on the middle of the rod (at a) and stroked all over its north half and on to the bent-over end of the tin plate (N) and drawn away from this. It is now made to describe a great circle in the air and brought back and placed on the second point of the rod (at b), and another stroke is made from this point to over the (N) end of the tin plate. The horse-shoe magnet is again lifted, made to describe a circle, and its south pole placed on the third and last point (at c) and drawn along this short space to over the covering end of he plate and then taken away.
The rod is now taken out of its tin plate clamp, which is to be left lying undisturbed, and the stroked end of the rod is marked with N; it has become the north pole. The rod is now to be turned round and inserted into the tin plate clamp so that the already magnetised north end of the rod shall lie under the extremity of the tin plate clamp marked with S, whilst the unmagnetized end of the rod lies under the N end of the clamp.
The stroking of the south pole of the rod is to be also made towards the north (though it is the south pole that is to be stroked) over the N end of the tin plate clamp; for this remains always with its N-end directed towards the north of the compass (it is only the rod that has been turned round).
We take the north pole of the horse-shoe magnet, set it in the middle of the rod (a) and again stroke towards the north upon the rod and over the N end of the clamp, we then set it on the south side of the rod (at b), stroke it over the N end of the clamp. In this way the south pole of the rod is made, and marked with S (south pole).
The rod is now removed from the tin plate clamp, and now it is as fully magnetized as it is possible to make it with the horse-shoe magnet, by means of these six strokes (three on each half of the rod).
We take a piece of fir wood of the length of the rod and cut a groove in it, in which the magnetised rod is accurately fitted and sent in this way to the patient, the north pole of the rod being indicated on the wooden receptacle by the letter N.
For medical purposes the patient touches the indicated pole of the magnetized rod (which is not removed from its wooden case) for half a minute, one minute, or a minute and a half, according as the nature of his disease or the strength of the patient requires.
[HAHNEMANN was assisted is his proving of the north pole of the magnet by FRANZ, GUNTHER, HARNISH, HARTMANN, HEMPEL, LANGHAMMER, MICHLER; in that of the south pole by FRANZ, HARNISCH, KUMMER, STAPF.
For symptoms of the magnet generally the following authorities are quoted:
ANDRY et THOURET, Beobacht, uber den Gebrauch des Magnets. Leipzing, 1785.
DE HARSU, Recueil des effets salutaire de l’animat. Geneva, 1782.
RECHEL, J. DAN., Diss de magnetismo in corpor humano, Leipzig, 1712.
UNZER, JOH, CHRISTOPH., Beschreibung eines mit Magneten gemachten medizinischen Versuchs. Hamburg, 1775.
For north and south pole symptoms the following:
DE HARSU (as above).
HEINICKE, Ideen und Beobachtungen uber den thierischen Magnetismus. BREMEN, 1800.
WEBER, CHTPH., Wirkungen des kunstlichen Magnets. Hannover, 1767.
None of these authorities are accessible.
Some of the complex symptoms under Magnet is p. arcticus, though said to be observed by different provers, are curiously alike, such as 384 and 392, 445 and 446, 447 and 448. The numbering of the symptoms has been very carelessly done, owing doubtless to the neglect of the transcriber.
In the 1st edit,. Magnes has 294 symptoms, M. p. arcticus 250, and M. p. australis 285. In the 2nd edit. Magnes has 393 symptoms of Magnes have only been iby five, to those of M. p. arcticus six have been added, and those of M. p. australis remain the same.]
MAGNES
(General effects of the magnet when to ched on all parts, the hands being brought in contract with both poles, or the magnet lying all its length on the skin.)
In the evening after lying down in bed a vertigo as if he would fall (soon passing off).
In the evening after lying down a kind of vertigo, like a sudden jerk passing through the head.
When walking he loses his equilibrium from time to time and staggers, without being aware of any vertigo.
The objects of vision seem to hover in an undecided place and to sway; hence he also sways when making a step and walking.
5. When he tries to remember anything, and exerts his memory, he gets headache.
Vertigo. [ANDRY et THOURET, Beobacht, uber den Gebrauch des Magnets, Leipzig. 1785, p. 232.]
Rushing noise in the whole head (from magnets lying flat on the thighs and legs, also on the chest). [JOH. CHRISTOPH. UNZER, Beshcreibnug eines mit kunstlichen Magneten gemachten medizinischen versuchs, Hamburg, 1775, p. 40.]
Dazed of the head, as from opium. [UNZER, l. c., p. 14.]
Head dazed, and sensation in it as if some one tired to draw it away from the body. [UNZER, l. c., p. 23.]
10. Sensation in the head, as if the head and the whole body would be pressed down. [UNZER, l. c., p. 64.]
Headache. [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., p. 232.]
Shock in the head and right shoulder with shivering. [UNZER, l. c., p. 12.]
Transient headache, a single jerk, compounded of twitching and tearing.
In the middle of one half of the brain a sharp pain, such as is felt in the first instant of a blow on it.
15. Headache in the morning, immediately after opening the eyes, as if bruised, which goes off after rising from bed.
In the morning, at the instant of waking, a furious, digging, stupefying headache, as in typhoid fever, which goes off immediately when flatulent movements take place in the abdomen.
Hahnemann's three major publications chart the development of homeopathy. In the Organon of Medicine, we see the fundamentals laid out. Materia Medica Pura records the exact symptoms of the remedy provings. In his book, The Chronic Diseases, Their Peculiar Nature and Their Homoeopathic Cure, he showed us how natural diseases become chronic in nature when suppressed by improper treatment.