The Magnet-The Energy
Mind and Disposition
While attending to his business in the daytime, he talks aloud to himself, without being aware of it.
Excessive exhaustion of the body, with feeling of heat and cool sweat in the face with unceasing and , as it were, hurried and overstrained activity.
Hurried heedlessness and forgetfulness, he says and does something different from what he intends, omitting letters, syllables, and words. He endeavors to do things, and actually does things contrary to his own intentions. Wavering irresoluteness, hurriedness.
He is unable to fix his attention on one object. The things around him strike him like one who is half dreaming.
He is inclines to be angry and vehement and after he has become angry, his head aches as if sore. He is disposed to feel vexed, this gives him pain especially a headache, as if a nail were forced into his head.
Sensorium
Vertigo in the evening after lying down, as if he would fall, or resembling a sudden jerk through the head.
When walking he staggers from time to time, without feeling giddy The objects of sight seem to be wavering, this makes him stagger when walking.
Head
Whizzing in the whole head, occasioned by the imposition of magnetic surface on the thighs, legs and chest. The head feels confused as when one takes opium.
When endeavoring to think of something and fatiguing his memory, he is attacked with headache. Headache, as is felt after catching cold. Headache occasioned by the least chagrin, as if a sharp pressure were made on a small, spot in the brain.
Pain in the region of the vertex at a small spot in the brain, as if a blunt nail were pressed into the brain; the spot feels sore to the touch. Sensation on top of the head, as if the head and the whole body were pressed down.
Face
Cold hands, with heat in the face and smarting sensation in the skin of the face. Intolerable burning prickling in the muscles of the face, in the evening. Sweats in the face without heat, early in the morning.
Eyes
Dilated pupils with cheerfulness of the mind and body. Fiery sparks before the eyes, like shooting stars. Sensation in the eye as if the pendulum of a clock were moving in it. White luminous, sudden vibrations like reflections of light, at twilight, on one side of the visual ray, all round.
Itching of the eyelids and eyeballs in the inner canthus. Sensation as if the eyelids were dry. Twitching of the lower eyelid.
Ears
FIne whistling in the ear, coming and going like the pulse. Whizzing before the ears. Electric shocks in the ear. Hard hearing without noise in the ear.
Nose
Illusion of smell; smell of manure before the nose, from time to time he imagines he has a smell before the nose such as usually comes out of a chest full of clothes which had been closed for a long while.
Teeth and Jaws
Metallic taste on one side of the tongue.
Tearing pain in the periosteum of the upper jaw, coming with a jerk and extending as far as the orbit the pain consists in a tearing, boring, pricking and burning.
Darting-tearing pain in the facial bones, especially the antrum Highmorianum in the evening.
When taking a cold drink, the coldness rushes into the teeth. Looseness of the teeth. Toothache, excited by stooping. The gums of a hollow tooth are swollen and painful to the touch. Aching pain of the hollow, carious teeth. Uniform pain in the roots of the lower incisors, as if the teeth were bruised, sore or corroded.
Mouth and Pharynx
Shocks in the jaws. Shock in the teeth with burning. Pain of the submaxillary gland as if swollen, early in the morning, in the open air.
Ptyalism every evening with swollen lips. Bad smell from the mouth which he does not perceive himself, also with much mucus in the throat. Continual fetid odour from the mouth, without himself perceiving it, as in incipient mercurial ptyalism
Burning of the tongue, and pain of the same when eating.
Taste and Appetite
Hunger, especially in the evening. He has an appetite, but the food has no taste.
He has a desire for tobacco milk, beer, and he relishes those things, but he feels satisfied immediately after commencing eating. Aversion to tobacco, although he relished it.
Want of appetite without any loathing, repletion or bad smell.
Stomach
Eructations, tasting and smelling like the dust of sawed or turned born. The eructations taste of the ingesta, but as if spoiled.
Crackling and cracking in the pit of the stomach, as when a clock is wound up. Sensation of an agreeable distension in the region of the diaphragm. Pressure in the epigastrium, as from a stone especially when reflecting much. Tensive aching and anxious repletion in the epigastrium.
Abdomen
The flatulence moves about in the abdomen, with loud rumbling, painless incarceration of flatulence in various small places of the abdomen, causing a sharp aching pain and an audible grunting.
Loud, although painless rumbling, especially in the lesser intestines, extending under the pubic bones and into the groin, as if diarrhoea would come on.
Emission of short and broken flatulence, with loud noise and pains in the anus. Loud rumbling in the abdomen, early in the morning when in bed, afterwards colic as if from incarceration of flatulence. Putrid fermentation in the bowels, the flatulence has a fetid smell and is very hot.
Qualmish sensation and painfulness in the intestines, as if one had taken a resinous cathartic or rhubarb, with painful emission of hot, putrid flatulence. Every emission of flatulence is preceded by pinching in the abdomen.
Tensive and burning pain in the epigastrium and hypogastrium, followed by a drawing and tensive pain in the calves. Itching of the umbilicus
Stool
Diarrhoea without colic Constipation as if the rectum were constricted and contracted.
Violent haemorrhoidal pain in the anus after stool, erosive as if sore, and as if the rectum were constricted. Burning at the anus when sitting, as in hemorrhoids. Itching hemorrhoids. Blind hemorrhoids after soft stool, as if the varices on the margin of the anus felt sore, both when sitting and walking.
Prolapsus recti when going to stool.
Urinary Organs
Burning in the bladder, especially in the region of the neck of the bladder, a few minutes after urinating.
Male Genital Organs
Burning in the urethra, in the region of the caput gallinaginis, during an emission of semen. Early in the morning he feels a burning in the region of the vesiculae seminales.
Nightly emissions of semen. Violent continuous erections, early in the morning when in bed, without any sexual desire. Want of sexual desire, aversion to an embrace.
The penis remains in a relaxed condition in spite of all sexual excitement. The prepuce retreats entirely behind the glans. Swelling of the epididymis, with simple pain when feeling it or during motion. Itching smarting of the inner surface of the prepuce.
Female Genital Organs
Menses had ceased a few days before returned next day after imposing the magnetic surface and continued ten days.
Larynx
Frequent fits of nightly cough which does not wake him. Convulsive cough. Mucus in the trachea which easily hawked up, evening and morning. Violent fit of cough, with profuse expectoration of blood.
Chest and Lungs
Asthma after midnight when waking and reflecting, occasioned by mucus in the chest, diminished by coughing. Spasmodic cough, with shocks in the chest and anxious breathing, and visible oppression of the chest. Violent oppression of the chest, tearing in the stomach and bowels, and beating in the shoulders.
Back
Painful stiffness of the cervical vertebra in the morning during motion. Crackling in the cervical vertebra in the morning during motion.
Pain in the omo-hyoid muscles, as if it would be attached with cramp.
Pain in the back when standing or sitting quiet. Burning in the dorsal spine. Twitching of the muscles of the back, and sensation as if something were alive in them. Pain in sacro-lumbar articulation in the morning when in bed lying on the side, and in daytime when stooping a long time. Shock or jerk in the small of the back, almost arresting the breathing.
Upper Limbs
Tearing, jerking in the muscles of the arm when staying in a cold place.
Shocks in the top of the shoulder which caused the arms to recede from the body with a jerk. Shocks in the arm-joints and head, as if those parts were beaten with a light and small hammer.
Pricking in the arm. Beating and throbbing in all the joints of the arms and fingers. Deep seated pain in the arm, extending as far as the elbow, the arm going to sleep and trembling spasmodically.
Drawing from the head down to the tip of the fingers. The hands are icy cold the whole day, for several days, from touching the centre of the bar. Pain in the wrist-joint as if a tendon had become strained, or as if an electric shock were passing through the parts.
Lower Limbs
Attacks of cramp in the calves and toes after waking. Drawing from the hips to the feet, leaving a burning along that tract. Violent shocks of the right lower limb, occasioned by a burning emanation from the chin and neck through the right side.
Fiery burning in the upper and lower limbs, when the right limb touched the left one, it seemed as if the latter were set on the fire by the former. Pain in the upper part of the tarsal joints, as if the shoe had pinched him, and as if a corn were there.
Sleep
Coma vigil early in the morning for several hours, after sunrise, sopor or deep sleep set in, full of heavy, passionate dreams, for instance, vexing dreams the sopor terminates in a headache as if the brain were sore all over, disappearing after rising.
Lascivious dreams, even during the siesta, with discharge of the prostatic fluid.
Skin
The recent wound commences to bleed again. The wound, which is almost healed, commences to pain again like a recent wound.
Boils break out on various parts of the body, passing off soon.
Corrosive pain in various parts, for example, below the ankle.
General Symptoms
Dull, numb pain. Jerking shock, causing the trunk to bend violently upward and forward as low down as the hips, with cries.
Fits of fainting, palpitation of the heart, and suffocation.
Long-lasting swoons, in which she retained her consciousness.