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Credit: Materia medica pura (Volume 3). Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Phlegmatic, indolent disposition ; he is not disposed to do any- thing, he feels lazy and drowsy (a rare alternate effect). [Anxiousness. Nightly anxiety, with violent palpitation of the heart. He easily starts at a noise.] NORTH POLE OF THE MAGNET. Head : (Vertigo, sensation as if she would fall in every di- rection). Vertiginous motion in one side of the head. (a. 10 minutes.) After having gone np-stairs, she feels a motion from the centre of the brain towards either ear, like the pendulum of a clock. He is not clearly conscious of himself, is unable to think correctly ; sensation as if his understanding had become arrested, and as if something were pressing his brain down, and were pressing the eyes out; a sort of fainting turn.—5. When walking, he felt like one intoxicated. Sensation of in- toxication, like a humming in the head. (a. 15 min.) Obtusion of the head with desire for open air. Weak memory, but he feels cheerful, (a. 1 h.) Two days in secession he wakes from his siesta with a violent headache, as if the brain were bruised and obtuse ; the headache decreases after he is fully awake, and disappears gradually after rising, (a. 3 and 23 h.)— 10. Headache, consisting in a sore and bruised pain in the surface of the brain, in the sinciput and in one of the temples. The head feels bruised and dashed to pieces in one of the hemi- spheres, (a. half h.) A shock in one side of the head in the morning while in bed. Sensation as if the head were being pressed down by a load. Pressure as o/ something hard in several parts of the brain.—15. (A good deal of heat in the head.) Disagreeable, compressive sensation in the the head, and as if one part of the brain were pressed in. The head is concussed by the sound of a hammer. Headache when walking ; pressure over the orbits. Headache, especially when raising or moving the eyes.—20. Tensive sensation in the brain behind the forehead, extending down to the root of the nose. In the morning after rising, he has several stitches in the upper part of the forehead, until afternoon. Headache, as if the temples were being pressed asunder. Violent head- ache the whole afternoon, as if the brain were being pressed asunder, (a. 3 d.) Large tubercles on the hairy scalp, (painful only when touched).— 25. Smartingitching in the hairy scalp.(a. \ h.) [Vertigo, as if intoxicated, obliging him to change the po- sition of his feet for the purpose of supporting his body (a. 5 minutes.) Vertigo, when walking in the open air, he was obliged to stagger, (a. 26 h.) He staggers to and fro and when](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21125284_0055.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
