Materia medica pura (Volume 3).

  • Samuel Hahnemann
Date:
1846
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Credit: Materia medica pura (Volume 3). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and filled with water (the magnet being held in contact with the weak right eye for a quarter of an hour).—30. Coldness in the weak eye for three or four minutes (the magnet being held in contact with that eye for two minutes). Coldness of the weak eye, as if the eye were a piece of ice ; as the coldness passed off a long-continued pricking was felt in the eye. Cold- ness in the eye, followed by heat. Pricking in the left eye. Pricking sensation in the eye, resembling the tick of a watch (for 25 minutes).—35. Uneasy motion of the eye. Great mo- tion of the eyeball; a good deal of water accumulates in either eye. Sensation as of a cobweb in front of the eyes. Shine in the eye as of a shooting star. Formication between the two eyes.—40. Strong drawing over the eye, in the surface of the cheek, ear, extending into the upper maxillary bone (the mag- net being in contact with the eye.) Intensely painful tightness in the face, extending as far as the tonsils. Drawing in the left cheek. Innumerable prickings in the cheek, with feeling of heat, without any heat being perceptible to others, (a. 2\ h.)] Ears : Stitch darting from the Eustachian tube to the in- terior of the ear (when stooping). Fine ringing in the opposite ear (immediately). A few tearings in the interior of the right ear, resembling otalgia, (a. 18 h.) Whizzing and a drawing sen- sation in the ear.—45. Tightness of the tympanum. Tubercle in the face, near the nose, feeling sore when touched; when not touched, a few rare slow stitches are felt in it. [Crackling in the ear as when burning dry wood, when holding the magnet in the ear.—45. Warmth and roaring in the ear, as when water is boiling and bubbling (when holding the magnet in the ear). Ringing in the ear of the same side. Heat and pecking sensation in the ear, when holding the mag- net in the ear. A kind of deafness, as if a pellicle had been drawn over the right ear, after which heat is felt in the ear.] Nose : Illusion of smell: he imagined the room smelled of fresh white-wash and dust. Violent bleeding at the nose, for three afternoons in succession, increasing every afternoon, and preceded by an aching pain in the forehead (a. 4 d.) Sore pain in the nostrils, even without touching or moving them, (a. 26 h.)—50. Redness and heat of the tip of the nose, fol- lowed by hot, red, circumscribed spots upon the cheeks. [Bleeding from the left nostril, at two o'clock in the after- noon, (a. 46 h.)—50. Bleeding of the nose for three-quarters of an hour, in the afternoon when walking in the open air, after blowing the nose. (a. 23 h.) Pimples on the right wing of the nose, with a stinging-itching sensation. Illusion of smell: he imagines the room smells of rotten eggs, or of the contents of a privy, (a. 27 h.)]