Magnes Artificialis

To the ordinary, mechanical, material heads, believing in nothing but atoms — and they are innumerable — it not only seemed strange, but even childish and incredible that the small portions of a grain of which we avail ourselves in our practice for the cure of disease, should be sufficient to effect that cure.

I admit that it is more convenient to look upon disease generally as an accumulation of coarse impurities, and upon medicines as unpolished levers and sweeping machines, or at any rate as chemical re-agents, than to consider the disturbances which take place in the living organism as purely dynamic affections of the vital powers, and the action of medicines as a dynamic curative power, and to treat disease in accordance with those views.

The curative methods proposed by Reil, Ackermann, Reich, etc., and offered as so many systems, are no less mechanical and material. Must not the substances which are to be introduced into the sick body for the purpose of re-arranging the altered form of the atomic constituents of a body of one hundred and fifty pounds, have some weight ? What a quantity of oxygen, hydrogen, or azote, would be necessary to supply the want of any one of those agents in a mass of humor, weighing forty, fifty pounds !• Or is there another means to act chemically upon the diseased body except by introducing or abstracting a certain amount of material substance ?

The following symptoms have been obtained by persons of different susceptibilities touching magnets of different power.

Those symptoms which have no reference to either pole in particular have been obtained incidentally during the course of experiments of six months' duration, the object of which was to find out the best and most effective mode of magnetizing steel ; a magnetic horse-shoe, carrying twelve pounds, being handled for hours in succession, and both hands being thus in constant contact with either pole.

Those symptoms which have been recorded from Angry and Thought, from Unzer and de Harsh, originated in magnetic surfaces of various sizes being applied to the skin, hence they have likewise no reference to either pole in particular.

Those symptoms which have reference to one pole in particular, have been obtained by means of a powerful magnetic bar being touched by persons in good health for eight or twelve minutes, seldom more than once.

For purposes of curing, a magnet of the following description should be used. A bar of eighteen inches in length, carrying half a pound at either extremity, should be used, placing that of the two poles, the symptoms of which are homoeopathic to the disease, in direct contact, or very nearly so, with the affected part, or else the pole may be simply touched with the tip of the finger. I have had cases where a contact of half a minute's duration was sufficient.

Recently I have used a little bar of eight inches in length, and a quarter of an ounce in weight, carrying two ounces in weight at the north pole, the weight having been gradually increased to that extent by myself, and the bar having a soft and thin wire twisted all round, because by this means its magnetic power is preserved intact, no matter in what direction the magnet is placed ; I have found this bar sufficient in all cases.

What has been said of enantiopathic or palliative drugs. applies likewise to the magnet ; they ought in all cases to be avoided whenever a homoeopathic drug exists. If the symptoms of a case correspond to the general symptoms of the magnet, without having reference to any pole in particular, in this case that pole is to be chosen which seems to be more closely homoeopathic to the case. If the symptoms should then disappear suddenly, or if new symptoms should be elicited of half an hour, or even of a quarter of an hour's duration, this is a sure sign that the magnet has acted enantiopathically ; this would soon be discovered from the speedy recurrence of the symptoms in an aggravated form. This recurrence is not to be waited for, but the other homoeopathic pole is to be applied immediately, for as long a time as the palliative pole had been. This pole will in the first place remove the new symptoms, after which a slight aggravation will probably occur, which will be followed by the complete and permanent cure of the original affection.

A mild disposition and an inclination to chilliness indicate the north pole, if the symptoms to be cured are found among the general symptoms of the magnet.

The action of a moderate quantity of magnetic influence lasts about ten days.

The disagreeable effects of an anti-homoeopathic application of the magnet, which are sometimes very considerable, may be palliated by small electric sparks being from time to time communicated to the patient ; but they can be permanently and effectively cured by the flat hand being imposed upon a large tin surface for half an hour.

Patients residing at a distance from their physicians, may make the magnetic bar themselves, according to the following method, which I have found to be the most suitable after long trials.

To make such bars the following materials are required : Bars of good German or English spring-steel, eight inches in length, two, or two and a half lines in breadth, and one line in thickness, and a somewhat powerful magnetic horse-shoe of ten or twelve pounds power.

The usual method of magnetizing a bar by moving the horse-shoe over it and causing the shoe to suddenly glide off the extremity of the bar, is exceedingly inadequate to the purpose, inasmuch as this sudden gliding off neutralizes a considerable portion of the power which had been communicated to the bar by the motion of the horse-shoe over it, a loss which cannot be repaired by carrying the shoe ever so many times over the bar again.

When the horse-shoe has reached the extremity of the bar, it ought to be made to glide over tin covering the extremity of the bar, and carried under the bar to the opposite pole, which it ought to cover as the other pole ; in this case the shoe maybe lifted without any detriment to the bar, and the tin band keeps up a conjunction of the magnetic emanation between both poles.

The bar should be laid upon the tin band, both ends of the band outreaching the bar somewhat ; these ends are then paired off and turned over the bar, being pressed close upon it. The ends are designated N. (north) and S. (south), and the bar is left in the same horizontal position, the north end pointing to the north pole, until the process of magnetizing is accomplished. The little bar is marked with chalk, ink, etc., in the following manner : one mark to be in the centre of the bar ; each of the two halves to be divided into three thirds, and a mark to be made at the termination of the first third from each extremity of the bar, thus : s- , i i ! i KN-

The lower and coarser line represents the tin case.

The bar is turned towards the north pole. The process of magnetization is carried on in the following manner : The south pole of the horse-shoe is lowered perpendicularly upon the centre of the bar a, and is then moved over the bar towards N. over the termination of the tin covering. Then you carry the shoe back to the point b in the south half of the bar, describing a large arc through the air in carrying the shoe back, and lowering it upon that point b, perpendicularly ; the shoe being again moved toward N. and carried back in a similar manner to the point c, whence the shoe is moved again toward N. and then drawn off.

The bar is then taken out of the tin case, which is left unmoved, and that end of the bar which had been marked N. is now the north pole of the bar, and to be so marked. Then the bar is turned and replaced in the tin case in the opposite direction, the north pole of the bar being placed in contact with the S. end of the tin case.

The moving of the hose-shoe is now resumed in the same manner as before, starting from the same points and moving in the same direction. This having been accomplished the other pole of the bar is marked S. (south pole).

This bar, being laid in a closely fitting groove in a stick of wood, may be sent to any distance, the north pole being marked N. on the outside of the stick.

The bar may be touched by the patient for a minute or a minute and a half; it needs not to be taken out of the groove.

(General symptoms of the magnet produced by touching either pole indiscriminately while handling the magnet, or by laying the whole of the magnetic surface flat upon the body.)

Head p. 27

Vertigo in the evening after lying down, as if he would fall (passing off soon). Vertigo, in the evening after lying down, 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 ; hence it is that he staggers when treading or walking.

5. When endeavouring to think of something and fatiguing his memory, he is attacked with headache. Transitory headache, one single jerk, composed of darting and tearing sharp pain in the middle of one of the two hemispheres, like the pain which is felt at the moment when one receives a knock. Headache, in the morning, after opening the eyes, as if bruised ; going off after rising. In the morning when waking, he feels a horrid, digging-up, , stupefying headache, going off immediately after flatulence begins to move about in the abdomen.

10. Headache, such as is felt after catching a cold. Headache occasioned by the least chagrin, as if a sharp pressure were made upon a small spot in the brain. (This pain was immediately removed by Ignatia on account of its being homoeopathic to it, see symptoms, 21, 191.) Pain in the region of the vertex, at a small spot in the brain, as if a blunt nail were being pressed into the brain ; the spot feels sore to the touch, (a. £ h.) Headache, in the morning after rising, almost as if the brain were raised out of the base of the skull ; disappearing after yawning.

[Vertigo. Whizzing in the whole head, occasioned by magnetic surfaces lying flat on the thighs, legs and chest. The head feels dreary, as if one takes opium. The head feels dreary, and as if some one were trying to pull it off the trunk.

5. Sensation on the top of the head, as if the head and the whole body were being pressed down. One beat in the head and the right shoulder, with shuddering. Pimples on the hairy scalp (the person being affected with the lice-malady).]

Face and eyes p. 27

Cold hands, with heat in the face and smarting sensation in the skin of the face.

15. Intolerable burning, prickings (not itching) in the muscles of the face, ill the evening. Copious sweat about the head and face when moving ihe body, especially the arms. Sweat in the face without heat, early in the morning. Dilated pupils. Dilated pupils with cheerfulness of the mind and body. (a. 24 h.)

20. White, luminous, sudden vibrations, like reflections of light, at twilight, on one side of the visual ray, all around (resembling the symptom which Marcus Herz denominates false vertigo). Smarting in the eyes in the evening after lying down, as of acrid tears. Itching of the eyelids towards the outer canthus. Itching of the eyelids and eyeballs in the inner canthus. Dryness of the eyelids and the inner mouth, in the morning after waking.

25. Sensation as if the eyelids were dry. (a. 4 h.) Twitching of the lower eyelid, (a. 1 h.)

[A quantity of mucus is secreted from the eyes, nose and ears.

10. Inflammation of the eyelids. There was no dilatation of the pupils during the spasmodic attacks and the loss of consciousness. Burning, tearing and sparkling in the eye. Burning, drawing and constant sparks in the affected eye. Fiery sparks before the eyes, like shooting stars.

15. Intensely painful stitches through the right eye, disappearing in the jaw, followed by a drawing through the same eye, down the neck, through the chest, abdomen and hips toward the right lower limb. Sensation in the eye as if the pendulum of a clock were moving in it.]

Ears and nose p. 28

The external ear feels hot to him, but is not hot. Itching in the meatus auditorius. Itching burning in the meatus auditorius, early in the morning when in bed.

30. Itching pimple on the antehelix ; this itching does not pass off by scratching, but the scratching brings even on pain. Fine whistling in the ear, coming and going like the pulse. Loud, strong whizzing in one of the ears, accompanied with headache of the same side, as if a foreign body were lodged in the brain ; the pupil of this side is very much enlarged (after touching the centre of the magnet). Hard hearing without noise in the ear. Burning pain at a small spot under the wing of the nose. (a. 1 h.)

35. Illusion of smell ; smell of manure before the nose. (a. £ h.) Illusion of smell ; 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.

[Heat of the ear (to which the magnet had been applied.) Whizzing before the ears. Noise as of seething water in the ear.

20. Electrical shocks in the ear. Pain in the cheek and in the ear.]

Mouth and jaws p. 29

Near the vermilion border of the upper lip, not far from the corner, a white pimple, or a red inflamed little tubercle, painful like a sore in a state of rest, but most painful when moving or touching the parts. Little ulcer in the centre of the inner surface of the lower lip, painful to the touch. Painful sensitiveness around the margin of the lips.

40. 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. Pain of the foreteeth when drinking something cold ; when taking a cold drink, the coldness rushes into the teeth. The tooth is painful from the air which rushes into the mouth ; the air rushes into the tooth, causing an aching.

45. Drawing pain in the jaws extending as far as the temple, with a crampy sensation in the muscles of mastication. Vacillation of the teeth. The tooth is painful when masticating. Toothache is excited by stooping, (a. 24 h.) Toothache ; beating or jerking pressure only in single jerks.

50. Violent 'grumbling in the teeth, even without any apparent cause. 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 incisores, as if the teeth were bruised, sore or corroded. Pain in the velum pendulum palate, as when a large mouthful has been forced down the throat.

55. Pain of the submaxillary gland as if swollen, early in the morning in the open air. (a. 12 h.) Tensive pain in the submaxillary gland. Single dull prickings in the submaxillary glands, in the evening. Pimples under the chin, on the neck, itching especially when touched, and causing a simple sore pain. Frequent conflux of saliva in the mouth, almost like ptyalism, with pain of the submaxillary glands.

60. Ptyalism every evening with swollen lips. Bad smell from the mouth which he does not perceive himself; the tongue being clean, especially early in the morning. Bad smell from the mouth, early in the morning, with much mucus in the throat. Continual fetid odor from the mouth, without he himself perceiving it, as in incipient mercurial ptyalism.

[Shocks in the jaws. Tremor of the chin and throat. Shock in the teeth with burning.

25. Burning of the tongue, and pain of the same when eating. Swelling of the throat, redness of the face and increased palpitation of the heart. (In a person liable to palpitation of the heart, and approaching to the magnet.) ]

Taste and appetite p. 30

Hunger (immediately).

65. Hunger, especially in the evening. He has an appetite, but the food has no taste. He has hunger and appetite, but lie does not taste his food ; mucus in the mouth seemed to prevent the food having any taste (immediately). He has a desire for tobacco, milk, beer, and he relishes those things ; but he has scarcely commenced eating those things when he is immediately satiated, and he is only able to eat little, (a. 16 h.) Aversion to tobacco as if he had smoked enough of it, nevertheless he relishes his tobacco.

70. He has no appetite, without however experiencing loathing or bad taste. Want of hunger without any loathing, repletion or bad smell (immediately). Tobacco has no taste when smoking, and merely causes a smarting on the tongue (immediately.) Beer has no taste ; it tastes like mere water. Some things seem to him to have a musty taste, although they have their usual good, natural taste, (a. 1. h.)

[Frequent conflux of saliva in the mouth.]

Gastric symptoms, stomach and abdomen p. 30

Eructations, tasting and smelling like the dust of sawed or turned horn. The eructations taste of the ingesta, but the taste is a spoiled one. Frequent attacks of eructations, which are sometimes unsuccessful. Unsuccessful or imperfect turns of eructation. When stooping, an acid substance rises from the stomach into his mouth.

80. Pressure in the epigastrium, as of a stone, especially when reflecting much. (a. 2h.) Tensive aching and anxious repletion in the epigastrium (immediately). 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 (from touching the magnetic bar in the middle). Early in the morning after waking, the flatulence is stirred up in the abdomen with rumbling and howling.

85. Loud, although painless rumbling, especially in the lesser intestines, extending as far as under the pubic bones and into the groin ; it may be felt with the hand when laying it upon the parts, as if diarrhoea would come off, although nothing is passed except a short, broken wind. Emission, as it were forcible, of short and broken flatulence, with loud noise and pains in the anus (from touching the centre of the bar). Loud rumbling in the abdomen, early in the morning when in bed ; afterwards colic as from incarceration of flatulence. Flatulence immediately after a meal. Putrid fermentation in the bowels ; the flatulence has a fetid smell and is very hot. (a. 12, 24 h.)

90. Qualmish sensation and painfulness in the intestines, as if one had taken a resinous cathartic or rhubarb, with painful emission of hot, putrid flatulence. He feels sick and qualmish in the region of the intestines, as if they were bruised, with inclination to vomit, as if he had taken a purgative, accompanied with emission of fetid flatulence and diarrhoea, (a. 16 h.) Every emission of flatulence is preceded by pinching in the abdomen. Pain in one side of the abdomen shortly after stool. Pressure of a protruding hernia, (a. £ h.)

95. Tensive and at the same time burning pain in the epigastrium and hypogastrium, followed by a drawing and tensive pain in the calves, (a. 20 h.) Itching of the umbilicus.

[Pain as if a band were pressing over the stomach, felt in both sides. A sort of rushing through the stomach and the intestines, mingled with stitches.

30. Pressure in the stomach with cramps in the direction of the upper parts ; restlessness which did not permit her to remain at any one place ; heaviness of the tongue, paleness of the face, and coldness of the body, the pulse being very small, tight, unequal. (This series of symptoms appeared every day at the same hour, for ten days in succession, in three females, decreasing more and more.) Crackling and cracking in the pit of the stomach, as when a clock is wound up. Sensation of an agreeable distention in the region of the diaphragm. Violent rumbling in the abdomen. Burning and digging-up in the abdomen like a heaving.]

Stool p. 31

Frequent but almost unsuccessful desire for diarrhoea in the morning, alternating with rumbling of the flatulence in the abdomen. Diarrhoea without colic. Painless diarrhoea mixed with flatulence, (a. 12 h.)

100. Constipation with headache for several days, as if there were something wrong in the brain ; the head is uniformly affected, the mind feeling vexed and impatient. Constipation as if the rectum were constricted and contracted, (a. 36 h.) Violent hemorrhoidal fain in the anus after stool (erosive), as if sore, and as if the rectum were constricted. Burning at the anus when sitting, as in a kind of haemorrhoids. Itching haemorrhoids.

105. Blind haemorrhoids after soft stools, as if the varices on the margin of the anus felt sore, both when sitting and walking. Prolapsus recti when going to stool. Pain on either side of the anus, consisting of itching and soreness when walking in the open air.

[35. Desire for stool in the intestines. Diarrhoea of several days standing. Haemorrhoids.]

Urinary and genital organs p. 31

Burning in the bladder, especially in the region of the neck of the bladder, a few minutes after urinating. Burning in the urethra, in the region of the caput gallinaginis, during an emission of semen.

110. Early in the morning when waking, he feels a burning in the region of the vesicular seminales. Early in the morning when waking, he feels a burning itching, in the region of the vesiculae seminales, or of the caput gallinaginis, inducing a desire for an embrace ; the burning in the latter place increases during an emission of urine. Early in the morning after sunrise, he falls into a deep sleep full of lascivious dreams ; after waking he feels a desire for an embrace in the genital organs, and inguinal hernia inclines to protrude with painful soreness. Pain in the inguinal region as when hernia protrudes (after touching the centre of the bar). Nightly emission of semen, (a. a few hours.)

115. Desire for an embrace, (a. 12 h.) Erection when walking without any amorous thoughts. 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 (immediately).

120. The prepuce retreats behind the glans, and does not cover the least part of it, or only a very small part. Swelling of the epididymis, where a simple pain is experienced when feeling it or during motion. Itching smarting of (he inner surface of the prepuce, (a. 2 h.) Burning smarting under the prepuce (immediately).

[Frequent emission of urine.

40. Increased metrorrhagia (in a female advanced in age.) The menses which had ceased a few days ago, returned next day after imposing the magnetic surface, and continued for ten days. The menses which had ceased ten days ago, returned the day after the imposition of the magnetic surface, but lasted only the usual length of time.]

Respiratory organs and chest p. 32

Frequent sneezing in the evening; afterwards coryza from one of the nostrils, the other nostril being free and open.

125. Coryza which comes and disappears again suddenly. Frequent fits of nightly cough which does not wake him. In the evening, after lying down, he has a violent fit of dry cough, sometimes while he sleeps (before midnight). Violent but short-lasting attack of dry cough in the night and at other periods, followed by slight discharge of ordinary mucus from the trachea, (a. a few h.) Convulsive cough (immediately).

130. Mucus in the trachea which it is easy to hawk up, evening and morning, (a. 24 h.) • Asthma, after midnight, when waking and reflecting, occasioned by mucus in the chest ; it is diminished by coughing. Spasmodic cough after midnight when waking and reflecting. Tenacious mucus in the anterior part of the trachea, which can only be thrown off after violent coughing. Fits of violent, dry cough, which causes the secretion of smarting, acrid tears.

135. Intolerable burning stitches in the muscles of the side of the chest, toward the back.

[Bleeding at the nose. A sort of catarrh, (a. 12 d.)

45. Violent fit of cough, with profuse expectoration of blood, (a. 6 d.) Spasmodic cough, with shocks in the chest and anxious breathing, and visible oppression of the chest ; sobbing breathing ; pressure in the chest, (a. 4 d.) Pricking in the chest, and a cold shuddering burning through the whole body.

50. A shock in the upper part of the sternum, causing cough and lachrymation. Violent oppression of the chest, tearing in the stomach and bowels, and beating in the shoulders. Tearing in the right side, mingled with pricking. Tearing extending from the right side into the inner parts of the abdomen, mingled with prickings and shocks, as if small pieces of flesh were being torn out, or as if fiery sparks were flying about. Four burning emanations from the middle of the chest toward either shoulder and side, back, and small of the back, with anxiety, and sensation as if the parts were being dissected.

55. Burning emanation from the left shoulder through the chest toward the right side, as if the parts were being severed.]

Extremities p. 33

Painful stiffness of the cervical vertebrae in the morning, during motion, (a. 12 h.) Cracking in the cervical vertebras in the morning, during motion. Pain in the homo-hyoid muscle, as if it were going to be attacked with cramp. Pain in the back when standing or sitting quiet.

140. Twitching of the muscles of the back, and sensation as if something were alive in them. Pain in the sacrolumbal' articulation, in the morning when in bed when lying upon the side, and in daytime when stooping a long time. Pain in the humeral articulation, (or in the ligaments,) as if the head of the bone were dislocated, (not only as if bruised, or sprained and twisted.) Tearing jerkings in the muscles of the arm when staying at a cold place. Uneasiness in the sound arm.

145. Drawing pain in the upper part of the lower arm. In the evening, between the sixth and seventh hour, he feels a tearing and bruised pain in the joints of the arm, more during rest than when bending the arm ; the pain returns in twenty-four hours. Feeling of coldness in the hands : 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 electrical shock passed through the parts, (a. 48 h.) Arthritic, digging up, and boring pain in a place of the lower joint of the thumb in rest.

150. Tearing in the joints of the thumb in the evening when in bed. Pain as if sprained and bruised, in the morning when in bed, in the lower joint of the thumb, when moving or bending it. Continuous pain, as if sprained. Sudden bending, and sensation as if dislocated in the first and second joint of the thumb, (a. 24 h.) Prickling and digging-up pain in the tip of the thumb, in the evening after lying down.

155. Twitching jerking in one part of the thenar muscle in the region of the thumb, and in the muscles of the chin. Continuous burning stitch, accompanied with sore feeling in the thickest part of the muscles of the vola manus and calf of the leg ; afterwards in the lower part of the tibia. (a. 1 h.) Easy bending and straining of the fingers. In the evening the legs and thighs go to sleep. Sensation in the upper part of the calf, when rising from a seat, as if it were too short.

160. Attacks of cramp in the calves and toes after waking. Cramp in the calf in the morning when in bed, when bending the knee, accompanied with relaxation of the muscles (while engaged in amorous caresses). Pain as if bruised in the fleshy part of the leg, on the outer side of the tibia, in the evening when walking. In the morning after rising from the bed, and when attempting to tread and walk, he feels a pain in the tarsal joint and beyond it, as if sprained. Pain in the outer ankle as if sprained, or an arthritic pain, when rising from a seat and commencing to walk ; the pain disappears when continuing the walking (in a few hours).

165. Stitches in the ball of the heel. Tearing pain in the heel, setting in with a jerk, passing off immediately, but returning from time to time. In the evening, prickings with burning in the soft parts on the side of the heel. (a. 4 d.) Painful sensitiveness and soreness in the region of the root of the nail of the big toe, and in the skin over the root, even when merely touching it. Sore pain under the nail of the big toe of either foot, as if the shoe had pinched him, and as if the nail were to come off by suppuration.

170. Burning and sore pain of the corn, which is generally painless when commencing to walk. Pain in the upper part of the tarsal joints, as if the shoe had pinched him, and as if a corn were there, (a. \ h.) Pain as of corns in the upper part of the tarsal joints.

[Burning emanations from the stomach through the abdomen and back ; the emanations separate in the small of the back, and extend into the lower limbs. Shock or jerk in the small of the back, almost arresting the breathing. Burning in the dorsal spine ; spasmodic pressure between the shoulder-blades, (a. 5 d.)

60. Beating in the top of the shoulder, with sensation as if it were being torn. Shocks in the top of the shoulders, which caused the arms to be jerked off. Shocks in the arm-joints and head, as if those parts were beaten with a light and small hammer. Drawing pain in either shoulder, and down along the nape of the neck, with beating in either arm. Pulling in the joints and muscles of the arm.

65. Pulling in the right arm ; a kind of digging-up around the wrist, elbow, and shoulder-joints. Pain in the muscles of the arm, as if they were divided into fine parts. Burning and cutting in the arms and chest, with cold shuddering. Burning in the right arm, as of fiery sparks. Burning pain in the surface of the arm in various parts.

70. Prickings in the arm. The arms are softly elevated, or even crossed as if by spasm : one of the arms is spasmodically tossed off the body or into the air. 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.

75. Painless shocks in the elbow. Burning in the elbow-joint, as if torn by hot pincers, with violent burning and sparkling of the eyes. (While removing the magnets from the arms, the fingers, hands and arms become curbed and even entirely contracted, in a state of unconsciousness.) Drawing from the head down to the tip of the fingers. Pricking and burning in the tip of the middle finger.

80. Pain from the hip down the limb, as if the parts were being divided by a fine instrument. 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 fire by the former. Painful going to sleep of the thighs and legs when sitting, disappearing when walking.

85. Burning tearing in the left leg, mingled with creeping. Pricking from the knee to the feet. Stitches in the leg. Shocks in the knee, causing the leg to be stretched spasmodically. Throbbing in the left knee.]

General Symptoms — Fits : Early in the morning, when lying on the side, he feels a continuous, intolerable, simple or bruised pain in all the joints, where the cartilages of the two bones touch one another ; the pain abates as soon as one turns to the back ; the head bent backward, and the knees bent and at a distance from one another. Bruised pain in the joints of that side upon which one rests, in the evening when in bed, (from touching the centre of the bar.)

175. Bruised pain of all the joints, or rheumatic pain of the ligaments of the arms and of all the joints of the chest, back, and nape of the neck, during motion and during an expiration (a. 12 h.) (from

MAGNES ARTIFICIALIS. touching the centre of the bar). Pain as if bruised, or simple pain, and painful sensitiveness in the region where the bones of all the joints unite, early in the morning when in bed. Pain, as if bruised, in all the joints, where the cartilages of the head of the bones touch one another, during rest and when lying down, but most violent during motion and when making an effort. Paralytic pain in all the joints, especially those of the small of the back, loins and chest ; or pain as if the joints were crashed, broken and bruised ; worse during motion and when standing, accompanied with a drawing and tearing sensation, especially in the ligaments and tendons, where they are inserted in the "bones, especially early in the morning after rising, and in the evening before lying down ; the parts are painless when touched ; the pains are relieved by emission of flatulence ; an increase of pain obliges one to close the eyes. Pain in all the joints, early in the morning, after rising, and during motion.

180. The joints are painful when moving the limbs, as if they had been sprained. Sensation in the limbs during motion, as is felt in the arm when knocking the ulnar nerve in the region of the elbow against something hard. The limbs go to sleep, especially when standing or walking, after rising from a seat. In the morning, when lying in the bed, and resisting a desire for an embrace, he is attacked with a kind of arthritic pain in the small of the back, knees and all the joints ; the pains are partly bruised or weary pains. The recent wound commences to bleed again.

185. 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 pains in various parts, for example, below the ankle. Itching of the affected parts ; the pain is increased by the scratching ; it is like a sort of burning in a sore place. Simple, continuous itching of the soft parts, remaining unchanged after scratching.

190. Burning itching below the joints, after lying down, even for the mere purpose of taking a nap; it cannot be appeased by scratching. A continuous itching-pricking, here and there, terminating in a burning, (from touching the centre of the bar.) Burning stinging pain in various soft parts of the body, not in the joints ; it is more or less continuous. Single stitches in soft parts, here and there, for instance in the ball of the thumb. In the evening, after having got warm in the bed, he feels single burning stitches here and there, terminating in a smarting sensation.

195. Pricking, moaning, fluttering sort of a pain at a small place, for instance, in the bottom of the feet, such as is felt previous to a limb going to sleep. Single jerks in the body previous to going to sleep. Sharp pain in the ulcer, as of a recent wound. Stiffness of the body during motion, after rising from the siesta. Early in the morning, after rising, he feels a great faintness, with anxiety, (a. 44 h.)

200. He becomes faint immediately, without feeling drowsy, and wishes to take something strong, but knows not what (immediately).

[Burning emanation from the head, down along the right side ; immediately after the whole body is covered with sweat, the temperature being moderate. Burning emanations through all the parts of the body in every direction. Intolerable burning from the head to the feet, with pain as if the limbs were being torn and divided. Burning and pricking pains. During the burning pains there was neither external heat, nor redness of the parts.

95. Sensation as of flying sparks over the body. He moans on account of a sensation in all the parts as if they were being cut up. Heaviness in all the limbs, and palpitation of the heart from omitting the usual imposition of the magnets. Dull, numb pain. (Nightly pains.)

100. Drawing and pricking pain, mingled with itching. Drawing pain. Shuddering movement through the whole body. A movement through the whole body, which is almost like a shuddering. The joints are painful when touched.

105. The places upon which the magnets lie, burn as if hot coals were lying near them. Creeping, and sensation as if all the humors were accumulating in the region where the magnet was. Small pimples on the chest, (where the magnet lay.) Extremely itching eruption where the magnet lay. The skin under the magnet is painful and corroded, and is surrounded by itch-like pustules.

110. Red eruption, red spots, (where the magnet lay?) Red eruption in the palms of the hands resembling watery vesicles. Burning itching where the magnet lay, obliging one to scratch until blood came out ; the skin is red, and round about small pimples are visible, passing off soon. Large pimples around the place where the magnet lay. Deep, lentilsized ulcers at the place where the magnet lay.

115. Widespread eruption of pimples and blisters, with drawing and pricking pain ; also, red spots here and there. Secretion of a reddish humor from the wound. The place where the magnet had been imposed goes to sleep, becomes numb and insensible. Jerking shock, causing the trunk to bend violently upward and forward as low down as the hips, with cries.

120. The trunk, while in a recumbent position, is jerked up spasmodically as it were, (with a cry,) the head being jerked forward upon the bed, and then again backward upon the cushion. The upper part of the body is spasmodically lifted and jerked forward, and then again jerked back on one side. (Violent starting and jerking upward) ; violent shocks, causing a general tremor of the body, burning in the chest and through either arm, and sweat all over. None of the convulsions excited by the magnet alter the pulse. A sort of starting through the body; afterward sweat on either hand.

125. Starting with a cry ; afterward sweat over the whole body. Paralysis for ten days, with loss of sensation, the limb having its natural temperature and being moist. Shocks deprive him of consciousness. The spasmodic risings and jerkings of the body forward, are followed by a long-lasting loss of consciousness, followed (see 39) by blowing with the mouth as when one experiences a great heat ; after which consciousness and cheerfulness return. Loss of consciousness, with staring eyes, open mouth, almost imperceptible inspirations, and a movement in the chest which is almost like palpitation of the heart, the pulse remaining unchanged and having its ordinary quality.

130. During the loss of consciousness the fingers are moved one after the other ; after the return of consciousness a profuse sweat broke out. Faintness in all the limbs, accompanied with a swoon, which lasts but a short while and returns several times. (These symptoms appeared in three females every day, at the same hour, for ten days in succession, but they appeared weaker and weaker.) Fits of fainting, palpitation of the heart, and suffocation. (From omitting the usual imposition of magnet.) Long-lasting swoons, in which she retained her consciousness. Swoon, during which she feels her pain, but is unable to complain on account of a want of speech and mobility.

135. Fainting fits. Insensibility and deadly sopor.]

Sleep p. 38

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 Aith a headache as if the brain were sore all over, disappearing after rising. Sleep disturbed by dreams full of oppression and anxiety, resembling night-mare. (a. 30 h.) Vivid dreams, as if he saw the thing taking place in his waking state. Dreams full of feasting, boasting, and bragging.

205. Sleep full of dreams, with the mouth open. He wakes at three oclock in the night ; in a few hours he falls into a sopor full of dreams ; afterwards, feeling of heat in the limbs without thirst, the limbs requiring- to be uncovered at first, but afterwards covered carefully. He moves early in the morning while asleep, (from touching the centre of the bar.) He wakes from three oclock in the morning ; but at sunrise his eyelids close, and he lies in a sort of stupor full of heavy dreams. Early in the morning he sleeps on his back, one of his hands lying under the occiput, the other over the region of the stomach, the knees being apart from one another, with moaning inspirations, half-opened mouth, and low muttering dreaming of amorous things and emissions, although no emission takes place ; headache in the occiput after waking, as after an involuntary emission of semen, with asthma, and bruised pain in all the joints, going off after rising and during motion, with copious expulsion of catarrhal mucus.

210. Lascivious dreams, even during the siesta, with discharge of the prostatic juice ; after waking, the genital organs are very much disposed to an emission of semen, (a. 2 h.) Wakeful drowsiness in the night toward morning (he hears every noise and has some power of thinking) ; after sunrise the drowsiness increases to a stupor, during which he hears or feels nothing, except violent pain as after a long journey on foot, and a bruised feeling in all the joints, obliging him to change the position of the limbs all the time, accompanied with loud grunting in the abdomen, which is interrupted from time to time by emission of flatulence, and a disagreeable feeling of warmth in the body ; during which time he generally lies on the back with an open mouth. The pains in the limbs soon decrease after waking ; but in exchange for those pains he is attacked with a just as painful headache, increasing after rising to a headache such as is felt when a dry coryza is setting in, but disappearing again by sudden sneezing and discharge of mucus from one nostril. He wakes at one oclock in the night. Sweat without heat, early in the morning while asleep, or mild, copious exhalation of the whole body, which is not exhausting, and disappears after waking. He talks when asleep.

215. When asleep he snores during inspiration, and wheezes through the nose during an expiration. Tossing about in the bed during sleep. He tosses about in the bed at night, imagining that he feels uncomfortable in any position of the body. In the morning, after waking, the flatulence increases in the abdomen, with loud grunting ; there is emission of flatulence, violent sneezing, copious discharge of mucus from the nose, and yawning ; all this soon goes off again. Early in the morning when waking, the mouth is covered with thick, almost dry mucus, and the eyelids are dry ; both these symptoms disappear after sneezing and after a discharge of mucus from the nose.

220. In the evening, before lying down, he is attacked with symptoms of a catarrhal fever ; the long bones are painful as if bruised in the middle ; accompanied withdullheadachecausingacloudiness; he is hoarse, and the chest (trachea) is lined with tenacious mucus, (a. 4 h.)

[Moaning while asleep, as if he had an anxious dream. Sleep interrupted by groaning.]

Fever p. 40

Shuddering over the whole body, partly cold, partly burning, and causing an intense pain. Hot and creeping sensation in the affected part. Profuse sweat with shuddering. Slight sweat in the night, especially where the magnet lay. Sweat in the region of the stomach. Profuse sweat. Fever after midnight : no shuddering ; disagreeable sensation of heat in the whole body, especially in the palms of the hands and bottom of the feet, with dryness in the throat and sweat in the face, nape of the neck or over the whole body. Dry heat, early in the morning when in bed. Heat without thirst in the night, requiring one to lie uncovered. Disagreeable, troublesome warmth in the whole body, with sweat in the face, without thirst (immediately).

225. Imperceptible exhalation of the whole body, having a strong, pungent, though not disagreeable smell, resembling the exhalation which is perceived coming from a healthy man while sweating. General sweat after midnight. Sweat over the whole body, especially in the back, early in the morning while asleep (from touching the centre of the magnetic bar).

Moral symptoms p. 40

While doing his business in the daytime, he talks aloud to himself, without being- aware of it (immediately) (like one whose mind is affected). He is faint, but excessively solicitous to do his business properly.

230. 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 zeal ; afterwards a gnawing pain in the arm and in the head of the humerus (in the first hours) 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 (immediately).

235. He is unable to fix his attention to one object (immediately). The things around him strike him like one who is half dreaming. He is unable to control his attention, howsoever much he would like to do so. Print seems to him very bright, but he has difficulty to comprehend what he reads. He inclines to be angry and vehement ; and after he has become angry, his head aches as if it were sore (immediately).

240. He is disposed to feel vexed ; this gives him pain, especially a headache, as if a nail were forced into his head Inclines to be vehement. Resoluteness, deliberateness, strength of mind and body (with easy digestion), (seems to be a curative effect). Cheerful, calm, and serious mood in the morning (seems to be a curative effect Phlegmatic, indolent disposition ; he is not disposed to do anything, he feels lazy and drowsy (a rare alternate effect).

[Anxiousness. Nightly anxiety, with violent palpitation of the heart. He easily starts at a noise.]

Notes p. 33

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