(Magnet)
(From vol. ii, 3rd edit., 1833.)
To the ordinary mechanical, materialistic, and atomisitic heads – and there is a vast number of such – it seemed not only paradoxical, but childish and incredible, that, according to the homoeopathic, medical doctrine, the administration of doses of only very minute fractions of a grain of the more powerful medicines could be of use.
I grant that it may certainly be more convenient to regard all diseases as accumulations of gross impurities, and active drugs as rough levers and brooms, or as chemical reagents, consequently as palpable alterations of the being of living creatures (diseases) as pure dynamical powers, as they are in reality, and to set about curing according to these views.
If we do not adopt these true views, but adhere to those ordinary material ones, the curative powers of medicines must be estimated according to their bulk and the weight of their dose; and hence the scales must determine the efficacy of the dose. But in that case we first ascertain the weight of the disease, in order to be able to reckon whether a disease weighing so many pounds (it has, indeed, been hitherto not unusual to employ the phrase “Grave illness”) could be prized out, as with a lever, by such and such a weight of medicine. (The theraputic aims, according to the ideas of REIL, ACKERMANN; REICH, and others (they call them systems), appear to be more refined but they are not less mechanical and atomistic. For how heavy must not these substances be, which, employed as medicines, have to put to rights the altered form of the simple parts in a diseased body weighing a hundred and fifty pounds? What quantity of oxygen, hydrogen, or nitrogen will be required in order to supply in mass and weight one of these substances presumably deficient in a collection of morbid humours weighing forty or fifty pounds? Or can medical chemistry at otherwise in the diseased body than with masses, by the addition or subtraction of material substances according to measurement and weight? )
I willingly abandon to those collegues of mine such atomistic views, by which the business of treatment can be carried on very comfortably, even when half asleep; for as we all know; to us poor mortals nothing is more easy of comprehension than the material, ponderable. Palpable, and sensible, because much thinking (and observing), as an Israelitish teacher says, is a weariness to the body. I cannot suppose them capable of regarding diseases as immaterial alterations of the vitality, as pure dynamic derangements of our state of health, and medicine powers as merely virtual, almost spiritual, forces. It is impossible to disabuse them of the idea that for such a weight is required, seeing that they could point to the traditional practice of thousands of years, when palpable quantities of medicine must always be poured into the patient from large bottles, pots, and boxes, in order that any effect should be produced in serious diseases , and yet even this did not usually succeed. I can readily believe this: the effect of the ordinary treatment of all times fully corroborates it! But how can they reconcile it with the atomistic, materialistic notions they entertain respecting the action of medicines and their curative powers, that a single imponderable spark from a Leyden jar gives a shock to the strongest man, and yet no ascertainable ponderable substance is communicated to his body? How can they reconcile with their atomistic, materialistic notions, the enormous power of mesmerism, when a powerful man with strong will to do good approaches the point of his thumb to the pit of the stomach of a nervous patient? How can they, finally, reconcile with their atomistic, materialistic notions respecting the actions of medicines the fact that a carefully-constructed magnetic steel rod effect such a powerful derangement of our health, even when it is not in actual contact with the body, but may even be covered with some thick material (such as cloth, bladder, glass. &c.), so that we suffer therefrom violent morbid affections; or, what is equally remarkable, that a magnetic rod can quickly and permanently cure the most severe disease for which it is the suitable medicine, when it is brought near the body, for but a short time, even though covered as above described? Atomist! You narrow-minded wiseacre! Tell me what ponderable quantity of the magnet entered the body in order to effect these often enormous changes in its state of health? Is not the centillionth of a grain (a fraction of a grain that has 600 ciphers for its denominator) still infinitely too heavy to represent this absolutely imponderable quantity, the kind of spirit that emanated from the magnetic rod into this living body? Will you now continue to express your amazement at the homoeopathic doses of powerful medicines of the sextillionth, the octillionth, the decillionth of a grain, which are gross weights compared with this invisible magnetic power?
The subjoined symptoms occurred from various powerful magnets brought in contact with various sensitive individuals, without distinction of the poles. They were observed in experiments conducted for half a year for the purpose of ascertaining the proper and most efficacious mode of stroking the steel with magnets, in which a horseshoe magnet capable of lifting twelve pounds was held in the hands, which were in contact with both poles for an hour at a time.
The additional symptoms from general contact, taken from the works of ANDRY and THOURET of UNZER, and of DE HARSU, also resulted from the application of the whole surface of various magnetic plates to the skin, consequently of both poles at once.
The symptoms observed from the two poles that follow occurred from the contact of powerful magnetic rod with healthy persons, for eight to twelve minutes at a time, seldom repeated several times.
Although each of the poles, as will be seen from the symptoms recorded, presents something peculiar in its power of altering the human health, yet each of them seems, when applied twice or oftener, to produce alternating actions which resemble those of the opposite pole.
In order to effect a cure the magnet must be applied in a much milder manner to enable it to act homoepathically, For this purpose a magnetic rod, eighteen inches long, which can lift a quarter of a pound at either pole, is more than sufficiently powerful, (Indeed, a rod eight inches long, weighing half an ounce, which (at the north pole) can lift four ounces of iron (which I magnetised to this extent, and surrounded with soft, thin, silk-covered wire, by which its magnetic power is retained undiminished for ever, in whatever direction it may lie), has latterly furnished me with all the curative power to be expected from the magnet, by its application for a minute or even only half a minute.) if the pole selected, according to similarity of the symptoms to the case of disease, be brought in contact, or almost in contact for one minute only, with the affected part or even with the tip of the finger. I have even met with cases for which the contact of such a magnetic staff for only half a minute was an empty sufficient dose.
But if the first application of the pole does not remove the whole disease, we must not allow the application of the same pole to be repeated, a second time, just as in other homoeopathic treatment it is not proper to give a second dose of the same medicine must be administered corresponding to the remaining morbid condition, or if the wrong pole have been first selected the opposite pole should be applied.
It is the same with magnets as with other medicinal agents; their enantiopathic or palliative employment must be avoided where there is a homoeopathic remedy that cures radically by similarity of symptoms. Therefore, where we find only under the general magnet symptoms a homoeopathic resemblance to the case of disease we wish to cure and where we do not know which of the two poles is more especially indicated, we apply that one which offers the greatest number of similar symptoms. But if after applying the pole we observe an almost instantandisappearance of the ailments we wish to cure (or even the occurrence of other symptoms not previously present) for half an hour, or only a quarter of an hour, then we may be sure that the pole we applied was not the curative (homoeopathic), but the palliative (enantiopathic) one. We shall soon be convinced of this by the speedy recurrence and increasing aggravation of the malady. But the practitioner who wishes to cure and not to be experiment, will not wait for this aggravation, but when the sudden palliative relief has lasted but a quarter of an hour (and especially if new symptoms have appeared) he will apply the opposite pole, but not for a longer time than he applied the palliative pole. This will first of all remove the new symptoms, then cause a slight homoeopathic aggravation of the original malady, and finally effect the complete permanent cure by homoeopathy, as occurs with all other medicines selected according to similarity of symptoms (homoeopathically).
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.
(Headache such as occurs from a chill.)
From a slight vexation a headache, as from a sharp impression on a small point of the brain. (Ignatia removed this immediately, comformably with its homoeopathic symptoms 35, 284. [These figures seen to be wrong, probably Ss. 59 and 297 are meant.])
In the region of the crown on a small spot of the brain pain as from the impress of a blunt nail; the spot is also painful externally to the touch (aft. ½ h.).
20. In the morning after rising from bed, headache, almost as if the brain were raised up from its base, which goes off after yawning.
Pimples on the hairy-scalp (with phthiriasis). [ANDRY et THROURHT, l. c., p. 219.]
Along with cold hands, heat of face, and smarting sensation in the skin of the face.
Intolerable burning pricks (Without any admixture of itching.) in the muscles of the face, in the evening.
In the eye burning, tearing, and sparkling. [UNZER, l. c., p. 20.]
25. Burning drawing and continual sparks in the affected eye. [UNZER, l. c., p. 18.]
Fiery sparks before the eyes, like falling stars. [J. DAN. REICHEL, Diss. de magnetismo in corpore humano, Lips., 1712.]
Painful stitches through the right eye, which lost themselves in the jaw, and then a tug through this eye down the neck, through the chest, abdomen, and hips, to the right leg. [UNZER, l. c., p. 101.]
Sensation in the eye as from the pendulum of a clock. [REICHEL, l. c.]
On moving the body, particularly the arms, profuse sweat on the head and face.
30. Sweat n the face without heat, in the morning.
Dilated pupils.
Along with activity of the mind and body, dilated pupils (aft. 24 h.).
During the unconscious convulsive attacks the pupils were not dilated. [UNZER, l. c., p. 140.]
Beyond the visual point and the line of sight, white light-spots quiver with great rapidity round about at the side as in reflexion, (Almost the affection called by MARCUS HERZ “false vertigo,” ) in the dusk of the evening.
35. In the evening after lying down, a smarting in the eyes, as from acrid tears.
Itching of the eyelids towards the outer towards the outer canthus.
Itching of the eyelids and eyeballs in the inner canthus.
Dryness of the eyelids and of the inside of the mouth, in the morning after waking.
Inflammation of the eyelids and of the inside of the mouth, in the morning after waking.
Inflammation of the eyelid. [UNZER, l. c., p. 70.]
40. Feeling of dryness of the eyelids (aft. 4 h.).
The lower eyelid quivers (aft. 1 h.).
A quantity of mucus escapes from the eyes, nose, and ears. [REICHEL, l. c.]
The external ear feels to him hot, and yet it is not so.
Itching in the auditory organ.
45. In the morning in bed, itching burning in the meatus auditorious.
A pimple on the antitragus of the ear, which itches; this itching does not go off by scratching, which causes pain in addition.
A fine whistling in the ear, but intermittent, like the beat of the pulse.
Loud, strong rushing noise in one ear, and at the same time some headache on the same side, as if a foreign body were in the brain there, at the same time the pupil on that side us much dilated (after touching the middle of the magnet).
Heat of the ear to which the magnet was applied. [ANDRY et THROURET, l. c., p. 234.]
50. Rushing noise before the ears. [UNZER, l. c., 6. 23.]
In the ear, noise like boiling water. [REICHEL, l. c.]
In the ear, electric shocks. [REICHEL, l. c.]
Deafness without noise in the ear.
Pain in the cheek and ear. [ANDRY et THROURET, l. c., p. 252.]
55. On a small spot under the ala nasi, burning pain (aft. 1 h.).
Illusion of smell: smell before the nose, like dung (aft. ½ h.)
Illusion of smell: from time to time he imagines he perceives a smell before the nose like what comes from a clothes chest that has long been shut up.
Near the red border of the upper lip, not far from the commissure, a white pimple, or a red inflamed lump, which pains as if sore per se, but most when moving and touching the part.
On the inside of the lower lip, a small ulcer, painful when touched.
60. Painful sensitiveness round about the border of the lips.
Metallic taste on one side of the tongue.
Burning of the tongue and pain of it when eating.[UNZER, l. c., p. 112.]
In the periosteum of the upper jaw, a jerking tearing pain, like jerks compounded of tearing, boring shooting and burning, extending to the orbit.
In the facial bones, especially the antrum of the upper jaw, a twitching tearing pain in the evening.
65. Blows on the jaws. [UNZER, l. c., p. 26.]
Trembling of the chin and neck. [UNZER, l. c., p. 25.]
Dislocation pain in the maxillary joint.
Pain of the front teeth on drinking some cold liquid; the cold penetrates into the teeth when drinking cold liquid.
The tooth is painful from air entering the mouth; the air penetrates painful into the tooth.
70. Drawing pain in the jaws to the temple, with a sensation as of cramp in the masseter muscles.
Looseness of the teeth.
A blow with burning in the teeth. [UNZER, l. c., p. 33.]
The tooth is painful when chewing.
Toothache excited by stooping (aft. 24 h.).
75. Toothache: a tapping or twitching aching only in single jerks.
A violent throbbing in the teeth, even without any exciting cause.
The gum of a hollow tooth is swollen and painful when touched.
Toothache only in the hollow carious teeth.
In the roots of the lower incisors a monotonous pain as if bruised, sore, or as if it were corroded by something.
80. Pain in the palate as after swallowing a large mouthful.
In the morning, in the open air, the submaxillary gland is painful as if it were swollen (aft. 12 h.).
Tensive pain in the anterior submaxillary gland.
In the submaxillary glands single obtuse stitches, in the evening.
A hard pressure in the lower part of the thyroid cartilage of the throat.
85. Pimples under the chin on the neck with itching per se, which is increased by touching, and with a simple sore pain.
Swelling of the neck, redness of the face and stronger palpitation of the heart. (In a person subject to palpitation of the heart, when the magnet is brought near him.) [ANDRY et THROURET, l. c., p. 235.]
Copious accumulation of saliva in tmouth, almost like ptyalism, with pains in the submaxillary glands.
Copious accumulation of saliva in the mouth,. [REICHEL, l. c.]
Every evening, flow of saliva, with swollen lips.
90. Along with clean tongue, especially in the morning, foetid smell from the mouth, which he did not himself perceive,
In the morning, foetid smell from the mouth with much mucus in the throat.
Persistent foeter of the mouth, which he does not himself perceive, as in active mercurial salivation.
Hunger (immediately).
Hunger, especially in the evening.
95. He has appetite but the food is without taste.
He has hunger and appetite, but no taste of the food; mucus in the mouth seems to deprive him of taste (immediately).
He has longing for tobacco, milk, beer, and they are relished; bur scarcely has he begun to partake of them when he is all at once satiated, and can only take very little of them (aft. 16 h.).
Disgust at tobacco smoking, as if he had become satiated with it, although it does not taste disagreeably.
He has no appetite, without, however, experimenting loathing or bad taste.
100. Want of hunger without repugnance satiety or bad taste (immediately).
When he smokes tobacco it has no taste and only stings his tongue (immediately).
Beer has not taste, it tastes like water merely.
Some things seem to him to taste mouldy, though they have really a good unspoiled taste (aft. 1 h.0.
Eructation of the smell and taste of filed or turned hornshavings.
105. The eructation has the taste of the food, but it is a spoilt taste.
Attacks of frequent eructation, which is in part incomplete and not perfectly performed.
Ineffectual efforts to eructate, incomplete eructation (aft. 1 h.).
When he stoops acid rises up from the stomach, felt in both sides. [UNZER, l. c., p. 111.]
110. A rushing mingled with stitches through the stomach and bowels.
Aching in the stomach, with spasms, which rise up to the upper parts; restlessness that does not permit him to remain in any one place; heaviness of the tongue, paleness of the face, and coldness of the body, with very small, tense, irregular pulse. (This array of symptoms recurred daily at the same hour, but always getting weaker, for ten days, in three women.) [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., p. 155.]
A crepitation and creaking in the scrobiculus cordis, as when a clock is wound up. [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., p. 174.]
In the region of the diaphragm, sensation of agreeable distension. [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., p. 232.]
Pressure as from a stone in the epigastric region, especially on making an effort to think (aft. 2 h.).
115. Tensive aching and anxious fulness in the epigastrium (immediately).
Movement of flatulence in the abdomen, with loud rumbling, without pain.
Great rumbling in the abdomen. [UNZER, l. c., p. 98.]
Burning and rooting in the abdomen, like a heaving. [UNZER, l. c., p. 23.]
The flatulence went hither and thither in the abdomen, with sharp, aching pain and audible rumbling in small spots here and there. (After touching the magnet in the middle.)
120. In the morning, after waking, in bed, the flatulence makes a commotion in the abdomen with rumbling an howling.
Loud, but painless, rumbling, especially in the small intestines, to close underneath the os pubis and in the iliac region, which can be felt by the hand laid on, as if a diarrhoeic stool would come away. Although nothing or only a small, short discharge of flatus ensues.
Short snaps of flatus are discharged with loud noise and pains in the anus, as if forced away. (After touching the middle of the magnet.)
Very loud rattling and rumbling in the abdomen, in the morning in bed; followed by colic, as from displaced flatulence.
Flatulence immediately after eating.
125. Putrid fermentation in the bowels; the flatus discharged is very foetid and hot (aft. 12, 24 h.).
Straining and urging to stool in the bowels. [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., p. 130.]
A qualmish sensation and painfulness as from a resinous purgative or rhubarb in the bowels, with hot, foetid flatus, passed with pain.
He feels sick and sore in his bowels – pains in the bowels as if they were bruised, with nausea as if after taking purgatives, foetid flatus and diarrhoea (aft. 16 h.).
Before each discharge of flatus, pinching in the abdomen. 130. Soon after stool pain in one side of the abdomen.
Threatened protrusion of a hernia (aft. ½ h.).
A tensive and at the same time burning pain in the epigastrium and hypogastrium, and thereafter a drawing and tensive pain in the calves (aft. 20 h.).
Itching in the naval itself.
In the morning frequent, almost ineffectual irritation to diarrhoea, alternating with rumbling of the restless flatulence in the abdomen.
135. Diarrhoea without pain in the abdomen.
Painless faecal diarrhoea, mingled with flatus (aft. 12 h.).
Diarrhoea for several days. [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., p. 220.]
Constipation of the bowels for several days, with headache, as from an obstruction in the brain , which involves the head almost uniformly, with peevish impatient humour.
140. Constipation of the bowels for several days. [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., p. 143.]
Diarrhoea. [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., p. 220.]
Constipation of the bowels for several days, with headache, as from an obstruction in the brain, which involves the head almost uniformly, with peevish, inpatient humour.
140. Constipation as if the rectum were narrowed and contracted (aft. 36 h.).
After the stool violent haemorrhoidal pain in the anus, (sore) as from a wound, and a constrictive sensation more in the rectum than in the anus.
When sitting, a burning in the anus as in a kind of haemorrhoids.
Itching haemorrhoids.
After a soft stool blind haemorrhoids, as if the piles at the edges of the anus were sore, when sitting and walking.
145. Haemorrhoidal flux. [DE HARSU, recueil des effets de’ l’aimant, geneva, 1782, p. 26.]
Prolapsus of the rectum when at stool.
Pain compounded of itching and soreness, on both sides of the anus, when walking in the open air.
Frequent discharge of urine. [UNZER, l. c., p. 15.]
Some minutes after micturition a burning in the bladder, especially in the neck of the bladder.
150. In the urethra, near the caput gallinaginis, a burning during the ejaculation of the semen in the act of coitus.
In the morning on awaking a burning in the region of the seminal vesicle.
In the morning on awaking, a burning itching in the region of the seminal vesicle, or at the caput gallinaginis in the urethra, which excites to coitus; the burning is increased at that spot during micturition.
In the morning after sunrise profound sleep full of lascivious dreams, after waking.
Inclination of the genital organs to emission of semen, and an inguinal hernia tends to protude, with some pain.
155. Pain in the inguinal region, as in the protrusion of a hernia. (After touching the middle of the magnet.)
Nocturnal pollution (aft. some h.)
Sexual desire (aft. 12 h.).
When walking erection of the penis, without amorous thoughts.
In the morning, in bed, constant erection of the penis, without amorous thoughts.
160. Absence of sexual desire, disinclination for coitus.
The penis remains soft during all amorous excitement (immediately).
The prepuce is retracted behind the glans penis and does not cover it at all, or only to a very small extent.
Swelling of the epididymus and simple pain thereof, on moving or touching it.
Itching smarting on the inner surface of the prepuce (aft. 2 h.).
165. Burning smarting under the prepuce (immediately).
The metrorrhagia increased. (In an old women.) [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., p. 152.]
The menstrual discharge that had ceased for some days came back the next day after applying the magnet, and continued to flow for ten. [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., p. 155.]
The catamenia, which had ceased ten days previously returned after applying the magnet, but only lasted the usual time. [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., p. 73.]
Quickly occurring, and as quickly ceasing coryza.
(A kind of catarrh)(aft. 12 d.). [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., p. 155.]
Frequent fits of coughing, at night – which do not wake him up.
In the evening after lying d, a violent fit if dry cough, after which there comes a slight expectoration of ordinary tracheal mucus (aft. some h.).
Convulsive cough (immediately).
Sobbing breathing. [UNZER, l. c., p. 50.]
Mucus in the trachea, which is easily expelled by short cough (Voluntary tussiculation), in the evening and morning (aft. 24 h.).
After midnight when lying awake and thinking, tightness of the chest on account of mucus on the chest, which is diminished by coughing.
180 After midnight when lying awake and thinking, spasmodic cough.
Oppression on the chest, i.e. viscid mucus adherent to the anterior part of the windpipe, which, however, can be detached by voluntary short cough.
Fits of violent. Dry cough, by which smarting and burning tears are forced from the eyes.
Violent fit of coughing, with copious expectoration of blood (aft. 6 d.). [DEHARSU, l. c., p. 27.]
Spasmodic cough with blows and anxious respiration and visible oppression of the chest. [UNZER, l. c., p. 41.]
185. Intolerable burning stitches in the lateral muscles of the chest towards the back.
Pressure on the chest (aft. 4 d.). [DE HARSU, l. c., p. 27.]
Shooting in the chest and a cold shuddering burning through the whole body. [UNZER, l. c., p. 21.]
Blow on the upper part of the sternum, which excites cough and watering of the eyes. [UNZER, l. c., p. 41.]
Great oppression on the chest, tearing in the stomach and bowels and throbbing in the shoulders. [UNZER, l. c., p. 85.]
190. Tearing intermingled with shooting in the right side. [UNZER, l. c., p. 12.]
Tearing from the right side into the internal pats of the body, mixed with shocks and shooting, just as if small pieces of flesh would be torn out, or sparks of fire were emitted. [UNZER, l. c., p. 12.]
From the middle of the chest four burning streams towards the back and sacrum, with anxiety and sensation as if the parts were cut to pieces, and divided. [UNZER, l. c., p. 65.]
Burning tug from the left shoulder through the chest on its right side, just as if parts were separated. [UNZER, l. c., p. 16.]
Burning tug from the stomach through the abdomen and back, whence the streams, divided in the sacrum, went towards the lower extremities. [UNZER, l. c., p. 20.]
195. Blow or jerk in the sacrum, which almost takes away the breath. [UNZER, l. c., p. 113.]
A burning in the spine. [DE HARSU, l. c., p. 25.]
In the morning a painful stiffness in the cervical vertebrae on moving (aft. 12 h.).
In the morning a cracking in the cervical vertebrae on moving.
Pain in the cervical muscles which goes from the shoulder to the lingual bone, as if cramp would occur there.
200. Backache when standing and sitting still.
Twitching of the dorsal muscles and sensation as if something alive were in them.
Pain in the sacral articulation in the morning in bed, when lying on the side, and by day during prolonged stooping forwards.
Spasmodic pressure betwixt the scapulae (aft. 5 d.). [DE HARSU, l. c., p. 27.]
Pain in the shoulder-joint (or the ligaments of the joint), as if it were dislocated and had fallen out (not merely as if sprained or twisted).
205. Throbbing on the shoulder with sensation as if it were lacerated. [UNZER, l. c., p. 37.]
Shocks on the shoulders whereby the arms were propelled forwards. [UNZER, l. c., p. 21.]
Shocks in the joints of the arm and in the head, as if they were beaten with a small, light hammer. [UNZER, l. c., p. 11.]
Drawing pain in both shoulders and down the nape with throbbing in both arms. [UNZER, l. c., p. 100.]
Tugging in the joints and muscles of the arm. [UNZER, l. c., p. 13.]
210. A tugging in the right arm, a kind of digging round about the wrist, elbow, and shoulder-joints. [UNZER, l. c., p. 12.]
Pain in the muscles of the arm, as if they were slightly separated from one another. [UNZER, l. c., p. 12.]
Burning and cutting in the arms and chest, with cold shiver. [UNZER, l. c., p. 98.]
Burning in the right arm, as from sparks of fire. [UNZER, l. c., p. 16.]
Here and there burning pain on the arm. [UNZER, l. c., p. 11.]
215. Needle-pricks in the arm. [UNZER, l. c., p. 11.]
Gentle raising and also superposition of the arms, caused by spasm. [UNZER, l. c., p. 50.]
Spasmodic throwing of one arm sometimes away from the body, sometimes upwards. [UNZER, l. c., p. 47.]
Beating and throbbing in all the joints of the arms and fingers. [UNZER, l. c., p. 74.]
A deeply-seated pain in the arm as far as the elbow, during which the arm goes to sleep, and trembles spasmodically. [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., p. 220.]
220. While remaining in a cold place there occurs a tearing twitching in the muscles of the arm.
Restlessness in the sound arm.
Blow in the elbow, without pain . [UNZER, l. c., p. 10.]
Burning in the elbow-joint as if it were torn by hot pincers, with violent burning and sparkling of the eyes. [UNZER, l. c., p. 102.]
(On removing the magnet from the arms during unconsciousness, immediately bending of the fingers, hands, arms, and complete contraction of them.) [UNZER, l. c., p. 51.]
225. Drawing pain in the upper part of the forearm.
In the evening (between 6 and 7 o’clock) a tearing pain as from a bruise in the joints of the arm, more when at rest than when flexing the arm – which recurs after twenty-four hours.
Cold feeling on the hands, the hands are icy cold all day, or an lecetric shock went through it (aft. 48 h.).
Drawing from the head to the tips of the fingers. [UNZER, l. c., p. 11.]
230. Gouty, digging, boring pain on a small spot on the distal thumb-joint, when at rest.
In the evening after lying down in bed, a tearing in the thumb-joints.
In the morning in bed in the distal thumb-joint when moving and bending it back, a pain as f dislocated and bruised (aft. 48 h.).
Continued pain in the distal thumb-joint, as if sprained or dislocated.
In the first and second joints of the thumb a bending and a kind of dislocated feeling (aft. 24 h.).
235. Creeping, digging pain in the top of the thumb, in the evening after lying down.
Quivering twitching in one part of the palmar muscle of the thumb and in the muscles of the chin.
A long continued burning stitch, combined with sore feeling in the thickest part of the muscles of the ball of the thumb and in the calf; afterwards in the lower part of the tibia (aft. 1 h.).
Shooting and burning in the tip of the middle finger. [UNZER, l. c., p. 13.]
Fingers disposed to knuckle over.
240. In the evening the thighs and legs go to sleep.
Pain from the hip down the lower extremity, as if the parts were slightly separated from one another. [UNZER, l. c., p. 24.]
A drawing through the hips to the feet, which left a burning everywhere. [UNZER, l. c., p. 104.]
Violent shocks of the right lower extremity, caused by a burning tug from the chin and neck down through the right side. [UNZER, l. c., p. 25.]
Burning and fiery heat in the arms and legs, so that when the right leg touched the left, it felt as if the latter were set fire to by the former. [UNZER, l. c., p. 38.]
245. When sitting a creeping painful going to sleep of the thighs and legs, which goes off when walking. [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., p. 149.]
Burning tearing in the left thigh, mingled with running. [UNZER, l. c., p. 31.]
Needle-pricks running down from the knees to the feet. [UNZER, l. c., p. 66.]
Stitches in the leg. [DE HARSU, l. c., p. 26.]
Shocks in the knee, which cause the limb to be spasmodically extended. [UNZER, l. c., p. 20.]
250. Blow on the left knee. [UNZER, l. c., p. 11.]
On rising up after sitting a feeling in the upper part of the calf as if it were too short.
After waking from sleep attacks of cramp in the calves and toes.
Cramp in the calf in the morning in bed on flexing the knee, and relaxation of the muscles. (In the midst of amorous torying and excitement.)
In the fleshy parts on the outer side of the leg near the tibia pain as if bruised, in the evening when walking.
255. In the morning after rising from bed when he seeks to make a step and to walk the foot is painful in the ankle-joint and above it, as if sprained.
Pain in the outer ankle as if sprained or as from gout, on rising up from a seat and commencingto walk, but which goes off on continuing to walk (aft. some h.).
Stitches in the ball of the heel.
In the heel a tearing pain in jerks, which goes off immediately, but recurs from time to time.
In the evening some stitches with a little burning in the soft part at the side of the heel (aft. 4 d.).
260. Painful sensitiveness and sore pain at the root of the nail of the big toe and of the skin covering the root, even when touched.
Under the nail of the big toe of both feet pain as if the shoe had pressed, as if sore and as if it would fester.
A corn, previously without pain, is the seat of burning sore pain in the shoe on commencing to walk.
Pain on the joints of the foot as if the shoe had pressed and there as a corn there (aft. ½ h.).
Pain in the joints of the foot as from corns.
265. Great chilliness; when he comes out of the warm air (in the room) into the cold, immediately stuffed coryza.
In the morning in bed, when lying on the side, in all the joints where the cartilages of the heads of the joints touch one another a continued intolerable simple or bruised pain, which, however, immediately ceases on lying on the back with head leaning backwards, and with flexed knees quite separated from one another.
Bruised pain in the joints of the side on which he is not lying, in the evening in bed. (After touching the middle of the magnet.)
Bruised pain of all the joints, or rheumatic pain in the ligaments of the joints of the arms and of all the joints of the thorax, back and nape, when moving and when breathing. (After touching the magnet.) (aft. 12 h.).
Pain as if bruised, or simple pain, and painful sensitiveness in the junction of the bones of all the joints, in the morning in bed.
270. Pain as if bruised, in all the joints where the heads of the articulations touch one another with their cartilages, when at rest and when lying, but most on movement and exertion.
In all the joints, especially of the sacrum, loins, and thorax, a paralytic pain, or as if the joints were broken on the wheel, smashed and bruised – worse when moving and standing – with a drawing and tearing sensation, especially in the ligaments of the joints and in the muscular fibres at their osseous insertions, - especially in the morning after rising and in the evening before lying down; - on grasping them externally the parts are not painful; the pains are grasping them externally the parts are not painful the pains are relieved by the discharge of flatus; when the pain increases the eyes must be shut.
Pain in all joints, in the morning after resting in bed, after rising and during movement.
On moving the limbs; the joints are painful as if they had been dislocated.
On moving a tingling sensation of the limbs, like the feeling caused by knocking the angle of the elbow.
275. The limbs go to sleep especially after rising from a seat and standing or walking.
In the morning, when lying in bed, on being excited to coitus (if he steadfastly resists it), he gets a kind of gouty pains, somewhat as from a bruise or fatigue in the sacrum, the knees, and all the joints.
A recent wound recommences to bleed.
A wound that was almost healed commences to be painful like a recent wound.
Small boils appear on various parts of the body, and soon go off.
280. Here and there, e.g. under the ankle, corroding gnawing pains.
Itching occurs on the affected parts, but after scratching the pain, increases very much, like burning on an excoriated spot.
A simple rather persistent itching in the soft parts, which is not altered by scratching.
After lying down (also during the siesta), here and there below the joints, a burning itching which is not allayed by scratching.
Here and there a sort of persistent itching prick, ending in a burning. (After touching the magnet.)
285. A burning pricking pain, which persists more or less in various soft parts of the body, not in the joints.
Here and there single stitches in soft parts, e.g. in the ball of the thumb.
When he has become warm in the evening after lying down, single burning stitches that end in smarting occur here and there.
On a small spot, e.g. in the soles of the feet, a prickling grumbling pain, such as usually precedes the going to sleep of a limb.
Before falling asleep single twitching in the body.
290. In an ulcer a sharp pain as from a fresh wound.
Burning tug from the head down the right side, followed immediately by sweat all over the body with moderated temperature. [UNZER, l. c., p. 11.]
Burning tugs through all parts in different directions. [UNZER, l. c., p. 31.]
Intolerable burning from the head to the feet with pain as if all the limbs were bruised and lacerated. [UNZER, l. c., p. 108.]
Burning and shooting pains. [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., p. 26.]
295. During all the burning pains in the parts there was observed neither external heat nor redness of the parts. [UNZER, l. c., p. 136.]
Sensation of flying sparks of fire on the body. [UNZER, l. c., p. 116.]
Moaning about laceration of all the parts. [UNZER, l. c., p. 32.]
Heaviness in all the limbs and palpitation of the heart. (After leaving off the accustomed application of the magnet.) [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., p. 152.]
Dull, numb pain. [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., p. 100.]
300. (Nocturnal pains). [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., p. 130.]
Drawing and shooting pain mingled with itching. [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., p. 219.]
Drawing pain. [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., p. 220.]
Shuddering drawing through the whole body. [UNZER, l. c., p. 14.]
A tug through the whole body almost like a shudder. [UNZER, l. c., p. 12.]
305. Joints painful to the touch. [UNZER, l. c., p. 110.]
Pain of the part to which the magnet is applied, as from the near approach of red0hot colas. [UNZER, l. c., p. 10.]
Pain of the part to which the magnet is applied, as from the near approach of red-hot coals. [UNZER, l. c., p. 10.]
A formication as if all the humours accumulated at the part where the magnet lay. [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., p. 130.]
On the chest (at the part where the magnet was applied) small pimples. [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., p. 149.]
(At the place where the magnet was applied) a very itchy eruption. [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., p. 159.]
310. Under the applied magnet the skin is painful and excoriated, and round about are itch-like pimples filled with pus. [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., p. 176.]
Red eruption, red spots (at the part where the magnet was applied?). [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., p. 196.]
Red eruption, like vesicles, in the palms of the hands. [UNZER, l. c., p. 33.]
At the part where the magnet is applied a burning itching, which compels him to scratch till the blood comes; the skin is red, and round about there are small papules, which soon go off. [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., pp. 214, 215.]
Round about the part where the magnet is applied eruption of large pimples. [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., p. 220.]
315. At the part where the magnet is applied there occur deep little ulcers, the size of lentils. [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., p. 219.]
Widely extended eruption of pimples and even of pocks, with drawing and shooting pain, - also red spots round about. [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., pp. 241 – 243.]
Discharge of a reddish fluid from the wound. [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., p. 128.]
The spot where the magnet was applied goes to sleep, becomes numb and insensible. [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., p. 232.]
320. A shock, so that the upper part of the body as far as the hips is forcibly bent upwards and forwards, with a cry. [UNZER, l. c., p. 23.]
When lying, the upper part of the body is spasmodically raised up (with a cry) as from a shock, so that the body is thrown forwards with the nose on the bed, and just as forcibly thrown backwards. [UNZER, l. c., p. 29.]
The upper part of the body spasmodically raised up and driven forwards, and thrown back upon one side. [UNZER, l. c., p. 33.]
(Frequent starting and raising up as from shocks) violent shocks, which were followed by general trembling of the body, burning in the chest, through both arms, and sweat all over. [UNZER, l. c., p. 18.]
All the convulsions from the magnet did not alter the pulse. [UNZER, l. c., p. 1.]
325. Shock like a start through the body, followed by sweat on both hands. [UNZER, l. c., p. 18.]
On rising from the (midday) siesta stiffness of the body when moving.
In the morning after rising great exhaustion with anxiety (aft. 44 h.).
Frightened, starting up with a cry, followed by sweat all over the body. [UNZER, l. c., p. 17.]
Paralysis for ten days with loss of sensation, but with normal warmth and moisture of the limb. [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., pp. 214, 215.]
330. Shocks deprive him of consciousness. [UNZER, l. c., p. 25.]
The spasmodic raising up (and shocks) of the body forwards on to the bed are followed by long-continued unconsciousness, thereafter (p.39) a blowing with the mouth, as if he felt great heat, whereupon consciousness and liveliness return. [UNZER, l. c., p. 32.]
Unconsciousness with staring turned-up eyes, open mouth, almost imperceptible respiration, and with a movement in the chest resembling palpitation of the heart, with unaltered ordinary pulse. [UNZER, l. c., p. 101.]
During the unconsciousness moving of each finger in succession; after the recurrence of consciousness profuse sweat. [UNZER, l. c., p. 96.]
Exhaustion in all the limbs with a syncope of short duration recurring several times. [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., p. 155.]
335. (Attacks of syncope, during which she retained consciousness. [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., p. 160.]
Long continued syncopes, during which she retained consciousness. [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., p. 196.]
Syncope, wherein she feels the sufferings, but on account of inability to speak or move cannot complain. [UNZER, l. c., p. 48.]
Syncopes. [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., p. 232.]
He becomes exhausted immediately, without sleepiness, and wishes to partake of something of a cordial and strengthening character, but he knows not what (immediately).
340. In the very early hours a waking slumber if several hours duration, but after sunrise stupefied sopor ot profound sleep, full of tiresome passionate (e.g. vexations) dreams, which ends with a headache as if the whole brain were sore, this goes off after rising.
Sleep with dreams full of distress and anxiety, like night-mare (aft. 30 h.).
Very vivid, lively dreams, as if an adventure occurred to him when awake.
Dreams full of feasting, boasting and talking big.
Dreamful sleep with open mouth.
345. Waking up about 3 a.m. – after some hours’ of dreamful slumber, then, without thirst, sensation of heat in the limbs, which he first wishes to have uncovered, afterwards carefully covered up.
He snores during sleep in the morning. (After touching the middle of the magnet.)
He wakes up from 3 a.m., but in the morning at sunrise his eyelids close and he lies in a state of stupefied slumber, full of tiresome dreams.
In the morning he lies asleep on his back, one open hand lies under his occiput, the other over his stomach, with the knees spread out, with snoring during inspiration, with half open mouth and low talking in sleep; he dreams of amorous subjects and seminal emission (though none occurs); after waking, headache in the occiput, as after occiput, as after a pollution, tightness of the chest and bruised pain of all the joints, which goes off after rising and moving the body, whilst a large quantity of catarrhal mucus is thrown up.
Lascivious dream, even during the midday sleep, with discharge of prostatic fluid; after waking the genitals are very much inclined to emit semen (aft. 2 h.).
350. At night, towards morning, waking sopor (during which he hears every noise and has some power of thinking), which after sunrise changes into a stupefied supor, in which he neither hears nor feels anything, except violent pains, as from a long journey, and as if bruised in all the joints, which compel him always to change the place of his limbs, with loud rumbling in the abdomen, occasionally interrupted by discharge of flatus, and a disagreeable feeling of bodily heat; during which he generally lies on his back, with open mouth. After waking and opening the eyes the pains in the limbs soon diminish; but instead thereof, there occurs a headache of a similar character, which after rising changes into a headache such as occurs at the commencement of a stuffed coryza, but which soon goes off after sneezing and flow of mucus from one nostril.
He wakes up about 1 a.m.
In the morning, in sleep, sweat without heat, or bland copious exhalation of the whole body which does not weaken him (and goes off after waking.)
He talks in his sleep.
Insensibility and (fatal) sopor. [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., p. 115.]
355. Moaning in sleep as from an anxious dream. [UNZER, l. c., p. 25.]
In his sleep he snores during inspiration but during expiration he breathes through his nose.
Tossing about in bed during sleep.
He throws himself about in bed at night and thinks he is uncomfortable in every place.
360. In the morning, after waking up completely, flatulence accumulates in the hypogastrium with loud rumbling; flatus is discharged, there occurs great sneezing, copious flow of mucus from the nose, and yawning, all which, however, soon go off.
In the morning, on awaking from sleep, the mouth is covered with thick, almost dry mucus, and the eyelids are dry; both go off after sneezing and discharge of nasal mucus.
A mixture of cold and burning shivering all over the body, which was extremely sensitive. [NUZER, l. c., p. 28.]
In the evening, before lying down, an attack of the symptoms of a catarrhal fever; the shafts of the bones of the limbs are painful as if bruised in their middle, at the same time obtuse, obnubilating headache; he is hoarse, and viscid mucus lies on his chest (in the trachea) (aft. 4 h.).
After midnight fever; without shivering, disagreeable feeling of heat in the whole body, especially in the palms and soles, with dryness in the throat and sweat on the face, the nape, and, indeed, all over the body.
365. Fever for more than three days. [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., p. 186.]
Fever for fourteen days. [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., p. 176.]
On the affected part sensation of heat and formication. [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., pp. 214, 215.]
Dry heat in the morning in bed.
At night heat, without thirst which desires and bears uncovering.
370. Disagreeable, unpleasant warmth in the whole body, with sweat on the face, without thirst (immediately).
Insensible perspiration over the whole body of a strong, not disagreeable empyreumatic odour, such as a healthy man exhales when perspiring freely.
General sweat after midnight.
Profuse sweat with frequent shivering. [UNZER, l. c., p. 108.]
At night, gentle perspiration, particularly about the place the magnet is applied. [DE HARSU, l. c., p. 27.]
375. Sweat (on the place where the magnet lies.) [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., pp. 129, 130.]
Profuse perspirations. [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., pp. 214, 215.]
Sweat all over the body especially on the back, in the morning during sleep. (After touching the middle of the magnet.)
While at his work during the day he talks aloud to himself (Like an insane person.) without knowing it (immediately).
He is exhausted and yet extremely careful and eager to complete his work thoroughly.
380. The greatest exhaustion of the body, with sensation of heat and cool sweat on the face, with restless and, as it were, strained, over hurried activity.
A zealous over-hurry, followed by pain in the arm and head if the shoulder (in the first hours).
Over-hurried thoughtlessness and forgetfulness; he says and does something different from what he meant to say and do, and leaves out letters, syllables and words.
He exerts himself to do things, and does quite the opposite of what he intended, against his own wish.
Hesitating resolve, irresolution, over-haste (immediately).
385. He is distraught and cannot fix his attention on a single subject (immediately).
All around him seems as if in a kind of half-dream.
Involuntary inattention: he cannot direct his attention, much as he wishes to do so, on a certain subject.
When he reads everything seems quite clear on the paper, but he can with difficulty comprehend the sense of what he reads.
Anxiety. [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., p. 155.]
390. At night very great anxiety with very strong palpitation of the heart. . [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., p. 146.]
He is easily startled by a noise. . [ANDRY et THOURET, l. c., p. 199.]
Very much disposed to get angry and indignant, and when he does get angry he has headache of a sore description (immediately).
He is easily vexed and gets sufferings therefrom, especially headache, as from a nail pressed in .
Irascibility.
395. Resolution, consideration, strength of mind and body (with good easy digestion). (Seems to be only curative action after a previous opposite disposition.) (aft. 5 h.).
In the morning tranquil disposition, calm, serious. (Seems to be only curative action after a previous opposite disposition.)
Phlegmatic, lazy disposition; not inclined for any work, lassitude, and drowsiness. (A rare alternating action.)
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