Ferrum Magneticum

FERRUM MAGNETICUM. Authority.

Jahr's Manual of Hom. Medicine, translated by C. Hering, M.D., Philad., 1836, p. 190.

MIND

• Walking along with a self-sufficient impression of importance.
• Hopeful with hilarity and confidence in the future.
• Fretful.
• Irresolute; he considers for a long time before commencing anything.
• Sluggish, not so speedy as commonly, more tranquil.

HEAD

• Headache when stooping, exerting the arms, and ascending steps.
• Headache on a small spot, particularly in the forenoon, and more on the right side.
• Headache suddenly moves to the eyes and nose, as if tears and sneezing would follow.
• Intermittent, throbbing headache. [10.]
• The hair falling off.
• Itching, small painful eruptions, small crusts on the head.

EYE

• The lower lid swollen, and the eye smaller from it.
• Soreness in the lachrymal caruncles, succeeded by water running from the eyes.
• Stinging itching in the canthus.
• Pain as from a pressure on the eyelid, which prevents seeing.
• Cloudiness before the right eye, which causes-twinkling.
• A small oval circle, with rainbow colors, around the candle.

EAR

• Throbbing in the earflap.
• Stinging in the external ear. [20.]
• Tingling in the ears.
• Drawing in the ear and larynx when swallowing.
• Pinching and shooting deep in the ears.
• Itching, cramping, and cool shooting in the auditory passage.

NOSE

• Sneezing, with obstruction of the right nostril, catarrh.
• After a trust in the nose with the finger, at once (about 12 drops) blood falls out.
• Sudden prickling in the right nostril, which produces shaking and sneezing.

FACE

• Sunken countenance , with general warmth, and succeeded by redness of the face.

MOUTH

• Tenderness of the teeth when masticating.
• The teeth easily set on edge. [30.]
• The gums bleed easily when pressed upon.
• An itching sensation behind on the palate.
• Collection of water and saliva in the mouth.

THROAT

• Stinging in the right side of the throat.
• Bitter rancid taste in the pharynx when hawking.
• A sensation as if phlegm adhered to the uvula.
• Pressure in the œsophagus, as if he had swallowed too much at once.

STOMACH

• Ineffectual eructation.
• Nausea.
• After meals taciturnity, self reflection, weariness, heat, discharge of wind, pain in the region of the stomach and anxiety, pains in the epigastrium, particularly when inspiring, urging to stool, and diarrhœa.

ABDOMEN. [40.]

• Rumbling, rolling, grumbling, croaking, and whistling in the abdomen, with escape of wind, and urging to evacuate and urinate; the rumbling in the abdomen connected with a drawing through the legs down to the toes.
• Much offensive wind (with the stench of rotten eggs) escaping soon after meals.
• The wind seemed to come all from one and the same spot, in the left side of the abdomen.
• During meals flatulency, movement, and croaking in the abdomen.
• Uneasiness in the abdomen.
• The pains extended from the abdomen to the breast, particularly in the left side.
• All disorders of the abdomen are felt particularly in the left side.

RECTUM AND ANUS

• Creeping and itching in the rectum.
• Stitches in the anus.
• Itching over and in the anus. [50.]
• Strong urging to stool, but voiding only wind.
• Immediately after dinner, urging to stool, with chilliness , preceded by discharge of wind, then stinging diarrhœic evacuation, weariness, and pale sunken countenance.
• Sudden or strong urging to evacuate, with contraction of the scrotum, and eructation.

STOOL

• Purging stools, accompanied with discharge of wind, and succeeded by rumbling and rolling in the abdomen, as when water is poured out from a bottle.
• The fæces discharged in short, abrupt, soft, and lubricated pieces of a round shape, afterwards diarrhœa.
• With a discharged wind some watery purging stool escapes.

URINARY ORGANS

• Much red urine, which becomes clay-colored, when remaining for awhile.

SEXUAL ORGANS

• Strong sexual passion, with and without erections.
• Defective irritation and inclination to cohabit, without, however, being impotent.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

• Dry cough from irritation in the trachea, as from dust in the larynx, after dinner, when washing himself. [60.]
• Easily hawking out phlegm from the choanæ and the trachea.

CHEST

• Free in the chest.
• Tearing stinging in the left side of the breast, from the foreside to the backside, and from the upper to the lower part, only when expiring.

HEART AND PULSE

• When strongly distending the thorax and retracting the right arm, the heart beats strongly and in short strokes.
• Pulse slow and soft.

NECK AND BACK

• In the morning pain in the neck, as from lying improperly.
• Rheumatic and minutely pricking pains in the shoulderblade, stinging when inspiring.

EXTREMITIES

• Tremors of the arms and legs.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Drawing-disabling pains in the right upper arm.
• Wrenching pain in the elbow. [70.]
• Spasmodic drawing and acute pressure in the forearm.
• Pressure between the hollow bones of the forearm.
• The wrist aches, as if wrenched, when bent.
• Dryness and tightness in the hands.
• Intermittent drawing, frequently as if in the bones, in the right hand, in the wrist, the thumb, through the metacarpus into the forefinger.
• Minute pricking, particularly in the joints and the points of the fingers.
• Intermittent spasmodic pain on the ulnar side, and in the ball of the thumb of the right hand.
• Throbbing in the point of the thumb.
• Pain in a panaritium on the little finger.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Straining pressure in the right hip-joint, when drawing up the thigh, at night, and in the morning; the pains disappear when lying on that side, but reappear when lying on the left. [80.]
• Minute, sharp, itching stinging in the left thigh.
• Painful stiffness on the inner side of the right knee, particularly when bending, after stretching out the leg, and only when walking on the street.
• After rising, weariness in the knees.
• Sharp stinging in the knee.
• In the morning, spasm and tightness in the calf of the leg.
• A drawing pinching from one ankle to the other.
• Wrenching pain in the foot-joint.
• Ganglion on the back of the foot.
• When stepping out in walking, a sensation in the back of the foot, as if the boot were too tight.
• In the evening, in bed, the foot on a small spot over an extensor very painful, when touched and bent upwards. [90.]
• Creeping and stinging in the heels, tickling in the sole.
• Stinging in the big toe, which produces twitching.
• The little toe aching, as if hard pressed.

GENERALITIES

• Infirmity, difficult movement, relaxed muscles.
• After perspiration, during a moderate walk in the P.M., weakness and lassitude, as if arising from the abdomen , tremor of the knees and hands, fatigue from walking up and down the room.
• Disabling heaviness.
• Disorders from travelling on foot , viz., thirst, perspiration, weariness, pale countenance.
• Some of the pains and the itching reappear after four weeks.

SKIN

• The skin of the hands on different places peeling off.
• Many small warts on the back of the left hand and the wrist. [100.]
• Bluish-red spots in the region of the metacarpal bone of the forefinger, not disappearing from pressure.
• Spots, resembling summer freckles, on the back of the hand and fingers.
• Red spots on the lower ribs, above and below the bend of the elbow, on the wrist, the ball of the thumb, of the size of a lentil, which momentarily disappear when pressed upon.
• Red burning spots on the inside of the thigh, where the scrotum lies.
• Efflorescence on the forehead, in the eyebrows, on the root of the nose, the cheeks, lips and chin.
• Stinging, shooting, pricking, and itching on different parts.
• When stretching the upper arm forwards, sudden heat flies over the hand.
• Burning near a golden ring on the forefinger. Itching and pricking on different places, also about the nipples, on the abdomen, etc., abated from scratching, but reappearing on other spots.
• Itching on different spots, every evening. [110.]
• Itching and pricking in the face, and on the lips.
• Itching and stinging on the mons veneris, scrotum, and the point of the glans.
• Fretting itching between the tendo Achillis and the external ankle, succeeded by a red painful streak.

SLEEP

• Gaping, with strong expiration, and collection of water in the mouth.
• Sleepiness, he falls asleep when lying and sitting.
• Inclination to stay in bed in the morning.
• Unrefreshed from sleep, pressure in the eyes, muddled head, flabby skin of the face, weary arms.
• On awaking, the right arm over the head.
• Dreaming immediately after going to bed, sudden awaking and chilly shivering, after which a very sound sleep.
• Absurd dreams at night, he awakes with perspiration and heat at 3 A.M.

CHILLINESS. [120.]

• Chilliness in damp weather.
• Chilly shivering along the left side, upon which he does not lie.
• Chilliness on the left side of the breast.
• Internal heat, with perspiration and slow pulse, after washing the body.
• Warmth, as if catarrh were developing itself, with weariness, sunken countenance.
• After walking, warmth, with weakness originating from the stomach; tremor, dizziness, pale countenance, inclination to lie down.
• Heat in the face.
• Perspiration with the least exercise.
• Morning perspiration, particularly on the body and occiput.
• Sourish-smelling perspiration, as in measles.