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Credit: Materia medica pura (Volume 3). Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![(a. 38 h.) Coryza and sneezing.—75. Violent coryza in that side of the nose which is nearest the eye where the magnet had been applied. Discharge of an acrid fluid from the nose. Acrid discharge from the nose, causing a burning pain in the nostril. Discharge of water from either nostril. Violent dry coryza; both of his nostrils being obstructed, and breathing being very difficult, (a. 20 h.)—80. Complete obstruction of the left nostril at night, the right nostril being open, but entire- ly dry, as in dry coryza. After rising, the nose, which had been obstructed over night, opened, but the dryness remained. Shortness of breath, when going up stairs. Clawing-contract- ive pain transversely through the chest, causing a tremulous anxious breathing, especially the inspirations, when leaning over or upon the arms and looking out at the window, (a 3^ h.) Anxiousness and qualmishness about the chest, (a. 6 m.) —85. Oppression of the chest. When walking in the open air he imagines that heat is entering the chest, passing through the pharynx. When walking in the open air, he feels a prick- ing in the left side of the chest, (a. 10 m.) Continuous stitch in the left side of the chest in the evening. Intermittent stitches in the right side of the back. (a. 26| h.)] Back and Upper Extremities: Crackling or cracking in the cervical vertebra), especially in the atlas, during motion, (a. 3 h.) Pain as if bruised in the middle of the spine, when bending the spine backward, (a. 36 h.) Gurgling and creeping sensation between the scapulae.—165. Twitching in the pos- terior lumbales muscles. Pain as if bruised in the left shoul- der-joint both during motion and in rest, painless when touch- ing it, from noon till four o'clock in the morning, (a. 3 h.) Trembling of the arm, the hand whereof is touched by the magnet. Cramp-like sensation in the arm, and as if it had gone to sleep. The left arm is much heavier than the other.— 170. That upper arm which is not touched by the magnet, is very heavy. Itching above the elbow, consisting in fine sting- ing and smarting, not diminished by scratching, as if a mos- quito had bit him there; the scratching causes a burning. Weight in the upper arm (immediately). Several times he perceives a jerking in the affected upper arm; (the arm and loot seemed to him dead.) Sensation of stiffness in the elbow- joint.—175. Audible cracking in the elbow-joint during motion (immediately). Pleasant feeling in the arm-joint, as if it en- joyed rest after great weariness. Stiffness and rigidity in the right tarsal and carpal joints, at night when in bed. Trem- bling of the hand which touches the magnet, and of the foot of the opposite side. Painful and almost burning itching in VOL. III. 5](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21125284_0063.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
