South pole of the Magnet-The energy
Mind and Disposition
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.
Violent anger excited by a slight cause; he becomes trembling and hurried, and uses 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. 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.
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. Drawing-tearing pain in the left brain, resembling a slow, burning stitch.
Pressure in the occiput, in alternate places. Headache in the occiput, most violent in the room, but disappearing in the open air (in the first hours). Spasmodic contractive headache in the region between the eyebrows. 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.
Eyes
Watery eyes from time to time. Painful, smarting dryness of the eyelids, especially perceptible when moving them, mostly in the evening and morning. Deficient sight, things looked dim, also double, when touching the nape of the neck.
Ears
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.
Jaws and Teeth
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
Sensation of swelling in the tongue, and heat in the organs of speech.
Throat
Burning in the pharynx, a sort of strangulation from below upwards, with a feeling of heat.
Appetite and Taste
Indifference to milk bordering on aversion, early in the morning.
Nausea and Vomiting
Inclination to vomit, early in the morning after waking. Fits of nausea when stooping forward, apparently in the stomach.
Abdomen
Loud rumbling in the abdomen. Flatulent colic at night, portions of flatulence seem to spring from one place to another, which is painful and cause a disagreeable grumbling sensation, or a soft pinching pressure from within outward in many places depriving him of sleep, short flatus goes off now and then with but afford no relief.
Drawing pain in the right side of the abdomen scarcely permitting him to walk.
Tearing colic occasioned by (reading) and walking and appeared by sitting, especially in the epigastrium (early in the morning.) Distended abdomen in the evening immediately before going to bed with colicky pains. Emission of a quantity of flatulence.
Sensation as if the left abdominal ring were enlarged and as if hernia protruded, every turn of the cough causes a painful dilation of the ring.
Stool
Frequent desire for stool, causing nausea, but she is unable to accomplish anything. Continual contraction and constriction of the rectum and anus permitting scarcely the least flatulence to be emitted.
Urinary Organs
Relaxation of the sphincter vesicae (Immediately). Incontinence of urine. Smarting pain in the forepart of the urethra, during the emission of urine, as if the urine were acrid or sour.
Male Sexual Organs
Drawing in the spermatic cord early in the morning when the testicle is hanging down as if pulled or distended, the testicle is even painful to the touch. Jerking in the spermatic cord. Slow, fine, painful drawing in the spermatic cord. Tearing in the spermatic cord.
Spasmodic drawing up of the testicles, in the night.
Pain in the penis, as if several fleshy fibres were torn or pulled backwards. Red spot, like a pimple, on the corona glandis and on the internal surface of the prepuce, without sensation. The glans is red and inflamed, with itching and tension.
Nocturnal emission (in a person affected with hemiplegia), it had not taken place for years past. (Note by Hahnemann - After this emission the paralysis became worse; the sick limb seemed dead to him.) Impotence, embrace with the proper sensation and erection, but at the moment when the semen is about to be emitted the voluptuous sensation is suddenly arrested, the semen is not emitted, and the penis becomes relaxed.
Female Sexual Organs
The menses which had already lasted the usual time, continue to flow for six days longer, only during motion, not when at rest, every discharge of blood is accompanied with a cutting pain in the abdomen (Note by Hahnemann - This women held the south pole, touching at the same time the middle of the bar. The south pole appears to excite hemorrhages, and especially from the uterus, as its primary effect, the north seems to act in the contrary manner. The menses, which were to appear in a few days appeared four hours after the south pole had been touched, but the blood was light-colored and watery.
Respiratory Organs
Shortness of breath in the pit of the stomach.
Chest
Palpitation of the heart.
Back
Gnawing and smarting in the back.
Upper Extremities
Crawling in the left arm, from above downward, resembling small snakes.
Quick, painful jerking, in the arms, from above downward. Jerking in the fingers which are touched by the magnet. Sense of heat and jerking in the finger touching the magnet. Beating in the finger in contact with the magnet.
Lower Extremities
Drawing with pressure, in the muscles of the thighs, worse during motion. Sense of coldness in the right thigh.
Drawing pain in the outer side of the bend of the knee. Tearing with pressure in the patella (worse during motion) and aggravated by feeling the part. Cracking of the knee-joint during motion.
Itching burning slow stitch in the side of the calf. Soreness of the inner side of the nail of the big toe in the flesh, as if the nail had grown into the flesh on one side, very painful, even when slightly touched. Pinching occasioned by the shoes on top and on the side of the toes, and near the nail of the big toe when walking as from corns.
Sleep
Frequent yawning (with chilliness). Sleepless and wakeful before midnight and no disposition to go to sleep. Restless, frequent turns from side to side in the night when in bed.
Dreams about fires. He quarrels and fights in a dream.
Unusual beating in the region of the heart.
Fever
Chills in the room the whole day, especially after an evening nap. Chilliness of the legs upto the knee, with ascension of heat and blood to the head. Feeling of coldness all over in the evening (without shuddering) without thirst (except at the commencement of the chilliness), and without being actually cold, at the same time he feels out of humor, everything was disagreeable to him, even the meal, two hours after he was covered with heat and sweat, all over, without thirst.
During the chilliness or the feeling of coldness he was quite warm, but he was obliged to lie down, and to cover himself well, his mouth was very dry, afterwards he was covered with a profuse sweat all over, without feeling hot, on the contrary, he felt a constant shuddering over the perspiring parts as if they were covered with goose skin, accompanied with a sensation as of a breeze blowing into the ears.
Warmth all over, especially in the neck.
Skin
Corrosive itching in the evening, when in bed on the back and other parts of the body. Itching-stinging, tearing, here or there in the evening when in bed.
General Symptoms
Bruised pain in all the limbs, so that he imagined he was lying on stones, on whatsoever side of the body he lay. Stiffness of the joints.
Lightness of the whole body. Laziness and heaviness of the whole body, accompanied with a feeling of anxiety, as if he were threatened with paralysis, and as if he would fall, accompanied with a feeling of heat in the face and the whole body mingled with shuddering.