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Magnetis Polus Arcticus

Keynotes and Characteristics · H. C. Allen

Open remedy: M-arct.

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North Pole of the Magnet-The energy

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.

Indolent fancy, he sometimes felt as if he had no fancy at all. Indolent mind. While attending to his business, he talks aloud to himself.

He makes mistakes easily in writing.

Hasty, bold quick, firm. Calm, composed mood, devoid of care.

Sensorium

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

Headache , consisting in a sore and bruised pain in the surface of the brain, in the sinciput and in one of the temples. Sensation as if the head were pressed down by a load. Disagreeable, compressive sensation in the head, and as if one part of the brain were pressed in. 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. Aching pain over the left temporal region, externally. Pushing, tearing in the head behind the left ear when sitting.

Eyes

Cold movement as of a cold breath in the eyes. The eyes protrude. Staring look. 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. Lachrymation early in the morning. Excessive lachrymation, the light of the sun is intolerable.

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). 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. 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.)

Ear

Fine ringing in the opposite ear (immediately). Whizzing and a drawing sensation in the ear. Ringing in the ear of the same side. 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. Redness and heat of the tip of the nose, followed by hot, red, circumscribed spots on the cheeks.

Face

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

Jaws and Teeth

Drawing-aching pain coming from the temple, below the mastoid process, between the sterno-cleido-mastoideus muscle and the ramus of the 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 succession of peckings 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 heat 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.

Mouth

Sore pain in the left corner of the mouth, when moving it, as if an ulcer would form. Painful humming in the hollow teeth of the lower jaw, worse on the right side, the toothache ceases during eating.

Appetite and Taste

Sourish taste in the morning, as if one were fasting. Greedy appetite at supper.

Stomach

Frequent eructation of mere air. Drawing in the pit of the stomach, extending into the right chest.

Abdomen

Spasmodic contractive sensation in the hypogastrium, externally and internally, early in the morning.

Flatulent colic immediately after supper, sharp pressure in every part of the abdomen from within outward, as if the abdomen would burst, relieved when sitting perfectly still. Flatulent colic early in the morning, immediately after waking, the flatulence was pressed upward toward the hypochondriac region, with tensive pains in the whole abdomen, causing a hard pressure here and there, accompanied with a qualmishness and nausea which proceeded from the abdomen, and was felt both in motion and when at rest.

Gurgling in the abdomen as if a quantity of flatulence were incarcerated causing a writhing sensation, which rises up to the pit of the stomach, and causes eructations.

Relaxed condition of the abdominal ring, increasing from day to day, hernia threatens to protrude, especially, when coughing. Sore pain in the abdominal ring, when walking. Boring pain above the left abdominal ring, from within outward, as if hernia would protrude. Inguinal hernia.

Stool

Drawing, almost dysenteric pain in the hypogastrium, early in the morning, followed by difficult expulsion of the very thick faeces. Stinging-pinching in the rectum.

Genital Organs

Nightly involuntary emission.

Respiratory Organs

Dry cough causing a painful rawness in the chest, especially in the night after getting warm in bed, having been chilly first. Racking and spasmodic cough while falling asleep, hindering sleep. Suffocative, spasmodic cough about midnight.

Chest

Pressure in the region of the heart (immediately). When walking in the open air he imagines that heat is entering the chest, passing through the pharynx.

Back

Crackling or cracking in the cervical vertebrae especially in the atlas, during motion. Pain as if bruised in the middle of the spine, when bending the spine backward.

Gurgling and creeping sensation between the scapulae. Twitching in the posterior lumbar muscles. Pain as if bruised in the left shoulder-joint both during motion and rest, painless when touching it.

Upper Extremities

Cramp-like sensation in the arm and as if it had gone to sleep. Violent coldness in the arm over which the magnet had been moved (in a female in magnetic sleep, after being touched with the north pole magnet.) Prickling pain in the arm as far as the shoulder, especially in the long bones of the forearm. Sore pain in the right shoulder when walking in the open air.

Stiffness and rigidity in the right tarsal and carpal joints, at night when in bed.

Painful and almost burning, itching in the dorsum of the middle phalanx of the little finger, as if the part had been frozen, the place was painful to the touch.

Lower Extremities

Tearing with pressure in the outer side of the knees down to the outer ankle.

Excessive weakness of the lower limbs, when walking, as if they would break.

Rigid tension in the hamstrings, when rising from a seat as if too short.

Sore pressure in the corns, which had been painless heretofore, when pressing the feet ever so little. Sudden lancinations in the heels, big toe and calf when sitting. Painful crawling in the toes of the right foot.

Sleep

Constant drowsiness in the day-time. Lascivious dreams the whole night. She saw a person in a dream, and next day she saw that person in reality for the first time. Restless sleep, he tosses about and his bed feels too warm.

Fever

Sensation of coldness or coolness over the whole body, as if she were dressed too lightly, or as if she had taken cold, without shuddering, immediately after she had a small loose stool which was succeeded by pressing. Shuddering all over at the moment when the north pole was touched by the tip of the tongue.

Cool sweat all over. Heat in one of the cheeks, accompanied with a feeling of internal heat, irritable disposition and talkativeness.

Skin

Crawling over the skin.

General Symptoms

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

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

Tremulousness through the whole body, especially in the fact. 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.

Drawing in the periosteum of all the bones, as is felt at the commencement of an intermittent fever (but without chilliness or heat.) The faintness, the bruised and painful sensation in the limbs were worse in the open air.

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