CARLSBAD.
There are several springs at Carlsbad, of which “Sprudel” and
“Muhlbrünnen” are the chief. Sprudel has a temperature varying from 125° to
162.5° F., and contains in one thousand parts (Ragsby, 1862):Sodium sulphate, 2.3719
Sodium bicarbonate, 1.9272
Sodium chloride, 1.0307
Calcium carbonate, .4288
Magnesium carbonate, .1889
Strontium carbonate, .0010
Ferrum carbonate, .0038
Manganum carbonate, .0008
Potassium sulphate, .1636
Calcium phosphate, .0002
Calcium fluoride, .0036
Aluminium phosphate, .0004
Silicic oxide (acid), .0728
Carbonic dioxide (acid gas), free, .7600
Traces of iodide and bromide of sodium, of cræsium, rubidium, lithium,
and of boracic oxide (acid).
Authorities.
1 to 6, symptoms obtained from drinking (and bathing in) the waters
(chiefly from “Sprudel” and “Muhlbrünnen” springs), collected by Gross,
Archiv. f. Hom., 20, 3, 173; 1, “B.,” a strong
man, of 52 years, drank and bathed in both springs; 2,
“C.,” a man, 50 years old, suffered at first from “heart troubles,” but
afterwards died from a “nervo-gastric fever;” 3,
“G.,” a man, of 70, inclined to diarrhœa, had been operated on for stone, and
stiff suffered from his bladder; 4, “H.,” a
man of 40, formerly had liver troubles, jaundice, and pulmonary tuberculosis, but of late
had been in better health; 5, “M.,” a healthy
woman of 49; 6, “W.,” a man, of 48, suffering
from jaundice; 7, Dr. G. Porges, Specifische Wirkung. u.
phys. analyses der Carlsbader Heilguellen, 1853.
MIND.
► Emotional. ► Very excited and peevish, and often as if beside himself about
trifles, with flushes of heat all over, [7].
► Self-satisfied, very talkative, and uncommonly good-humored,
[7]. ► Weeping,
timorous, despairing mood, [2]. ►
His nerves are so much affected that the sorrows of others cause him to weep easily, [2]. ► Mood very much
depressed, like an excessive homesickness; at last violent weeping (second day), (after four
glasses), [6]. ►
Great dejection of spirits; without cause he is very unusually sulky, [7]. ► Painful dejection, with
foul stomach, [7]. ►
Gloomy and self-absorbed, [7]. ► Unpleasant mood in the afternoon, without cause for sadness, [7]. [10.] ► Discouraged and anxious in the discharge of his domestic duties,
[7]. ► Attacks of
anxiety, [7]. ►
Constrictive anxiety when in the room; somewhat better in the open air, [7]. ► Fainthearted, with frequent
yawning, at 9 A.M. (thirteenth day), [6]. ► Quiet ill-humor, and indisposed to speak, [7]. ► In the morning, on rising,
irritable and out of humor, and peevish the whole day, [7]. ► Very much disposed to take
everything in bad part and to be critical (especially after three weeks and later), [5]. ► Is easily vexed
about things which, when well, would have made him laugh, together with a dull pressure in
the right side of the lower abdomen, below the liver, where, when bathing, he frequently
noticed a loose swelling (in the cæcum), (after four weeks), [6].
► Variable mood, [7].
► Intellectual. ►
Difficult thinking, [7]. [20.]
► Unfitness to think, and for every, even the slightest
mental occupation; cannot find words to express himself correctly, [7]. ► Much effort in employing his
mind, [7]. ►
Indisposition to read, and to all exertion of mind; he took up now this book, now that, but
could read nothing, [7]. ► Foolish condition, as if stupid, with dull pressing pain
in forehead, at times also with buzzing and roaring in the ears, [7]. ► Uncommon absence of mind
and confusion of speech, [7]. ►
Uncommonly absent-minded; forgets names, [7].
► Heedlessness, so that at times he expresses
himself only with great exertion, and in writing, often omits letters, [7].
HEAD.
► Confusion and Vertigo.
► Confusion and gloominess
of the whole head; such a sensation as remains after intoxication, [7]. ► Confusion and heaviness of the
head, especially after eating; better on motion in the open air, [7]. ► Confusion, with difficulty
in thinking and indolence of mind, which becomes tired very soon and easily, [7]. [30.] ►
Dizzy confusion of the head during the night, changing
to a sensation of fulness in the forehead, in the morning, which disappears after rising, [7]. ► Dizzy confusion in the
head, now pressure in the forehead, now a drawing tension in the occiput, [7]. ► Excessive
stupefaction of the head, with gloominess, disappearing in the open air, and returning
frequently during the day, [7]. ►
Frequent attacks of vertigo (eighteenth day), [6]. ► Momentary attacks of vertigo, so that he had to hold himself
up, also turning as if in a circle; better in the open air,
[7]. ► Dizziness, [7]. ► Sensations.
► Remarkable rush of blood to the head, with heaviness,
benumbed confusion of the head, great melancholy, and weakness of mind, [7]. ► Cracking in the head, as if
something were breaking in it, especially perceptible in the evening, on lying down, [7]. ► Head very heavy, full,
and stupefied; worse on stooping, shaking round, and turning, with quivering in the lids,
[7]. ► Head of the
head, worse on entering a room, [7]. [40.] ► Drawing in streaks
over the surface of the brain, as if in the membranes and sinuses, [7]. ► Pressing headache, especially
in the forehead, with dull confusion, [7]. ► Dull pressing headache, in the morning, after waking, and
almost the whole forenoon (thirtieth day), [6]. ► Extremely annoying pressing headache, more on the vertex,
with from time to time single stitches and jerks in the centre, through the substance of the
brain, [7]. ►
Maddening, stupefying, pressing headache, especially in the forehead, [7]. ► Tearing headache, now on the
right side, now on the left, in the temples and the occiput, less on motion, [7]. ► Throbbing and beating
in the head synchronously with the pulse, on the vertex, frequently also in the occiput,
with bluish-red face; it is especially violent on stooping or ascending an eminence, [7]. ► Transient
drawing-creeping in the whole cranial periosteum, [7].
► Sensitiveness of the periosteum of the cranium, [7]. ► Forehead. ► Confusion, like intoxication, in the forehead, with sensation of
heaviness in the eyeballs, [7]. [50.] ► Slumbering by day
caused headache in the forehead and temples; a pressure (eleventh day), [6]. ► Headache in the forehead and
temples, with swollen temporal veins, [7]. ► Some headache in the left side of the forehead, [7]. ► Dull pressure in
the forehead, after a meal (fourteenth day), [6]. ► Burrowing pressure in the forehead (seventh day), [6]. ► Frequent beatings
in the forehead and temples (eighteenth day), [6]. ► Temples. ► Sensitive
stitches in the right temple, [2]. ► Sensitive beating in the right temple, in the forenoon
(twentieth day), [6]. ►
Vertex. ► Dull pressure in the upper part of
the head (after the first bath), [6]. ► Crawling and compression in the galea aponeurotica, now on
the vertex, now in the occiput, [7]. ► Parietals. [60.] ► Tensive compressing pain from the parietal bones to the
frontal eminences forward, at short intervals, [7]. ► Burrowing headache in the right side (fifth day), (two hours
after seven glasses), [6]. ►
Sore pressing pain above in the right side of the head, close under the bones, on a small
spot, in the evening, in bed, [7]. ► Occiput. ► Fulness and
heaviness in the occiput, slighter in the open air, but appearing with the former
violence on re-entering the room, [7]. ► Pressing and tension on the occiput, most violent on the
lower lateral eminences, [7]. ►
External Head. ► A times, excessive falling
out of the hair, [7]. ►
Smoothing down the hair is very painful, [7]. ► Sensation as if something cold ran over the whole head, and
the hair bristled up, [7].
EYE.
► Weakness of the
eyes, especially on writing and long-continued reading, [7].
► Heat streams from the eyes, with burning and pressing in
them, and an appearance of black spots swimming about, [7]. [70.] ► Burning and pressing,
especially around the eye, but also in the ball itself, as from sand, or as when one looks
into the sun, with increased secretion from the Meibomian glands, [7]. ► Pressing pain in the eyes, as
if the eyes were being pressed downward from above, and were too large, and did not have
sufficient room in their orbits, [7]. ► Pressure and pain in the eyes; they become cloudy, as if a veil were
before them, [7]. ►
Orbit. ► Violent pressing pain above the
orbits, spreading below or toward the temples, [7]. ► Slight ticking in the right supraorbital nerve and in the whole
right upper lid; at the same time twitching in the inner angle of the eye, [7]. ► Very sensitive,
dull stitches in the upper margin of the left orbit (nineteenth day), [6]. ► Lids. ► Lids at times somewhat œdematous, swollen, and in the morning
agglutinated with mucus, [7]. ► The inner surface of the lids is inflamed (tenth day), [6]. ► Twitching-quivering in
the upper lids, causing constant rubbing of the eye, as if some foreign body were there,
[7]. ► Lachrymal
Apparatus. ► Greatly increased lachrymal secretion, [7]. [80.] ► On sewing, her eyes water,
and on long looking at one object, the eye is covered as by a veil, [7]. ► Vision. ► A weakness of the eye (weakness of vision; can no more see
near objects; cannot do fine work) becomes aggravated; she is obliged to wipe her eyes and
wink constantly, which momentarily relieves the dimness and tension; it is better in the
open air (fourth day after six glasses), [5]. ► Objects swim before the sight, [7]. ► The long letters of a sign
cannot be recognized at the distance of fifty feet; they run together (fourteenth day), [6]. ► Quivering before the
eyes, [7]. ►
Flickering before the vision; he seems to see through a veil, [2].
► In the street, soon after writing, violent flickering and
fiery sparks before the eyes; everything about him trembles and wavers; he can scarcely
discern passing faces, [7]. ► Quivering, zigzag semicircle on the right side of the field
of vision, in the morning (seventh day after three glasses), [5].
► When working with the hands, bifurcated bodies and gray
spots appear in the axis of vision, [7]. ► Obliquely above the right eye, from the right angle to the
left, a dark stripe, which impairs the vision; it is momentary, especially after winking,
when walking in the open air, for several days (third week), [6].
[90.] ► A cloud which
had formerly existed before the vision, and which moved upward and downward with the vision,
became worse and thicker (first week), [5].
EAR.
► Increased warmth in the
ear, which itches, [7]. ► Pinching in the left inner ear, [7]. ► Fine twitching stitches from
the Eustachian tube to the tympanum; disappearing on boring with the finger, [7]. ► Hearing. ► Frequent murmuring in the ears, agreeing with the rate of the
pulse; at times a sensation of slight pressure and tension, as if the ears were stopped, [7]. ► Humming and
roaring, also ringing, in the ears, at times also fluttering before them, [7]. ► Momentary ringing in the
right ear, when writing in the afternoon (fifteenth day), [6].
► Very frequently violent ringing, at times changing into
a transient loss of hearing, at times into a dull roaring, [7].
NOSE.
► Objective. ► Bluish color of the nose, [7].
► Turgescence of the vena nasalis, [7]. [100.] ►
Frequent sneezing, [7]. ►
Copious mucous secretion from the nose, [7]. ► Frequent blowing out of thick mucus, [7]. ► Catarrh, rough throat, and
hoarseness disappeared soon from using the water, [3].
► Her former stopped catarrh disappeared in a few days, [5]. ► The habitual
stopped catarrh was worse during the first part of the proving, then it disappeared; after
fourteen days fluent catarrh appeared, which also afterwards disappeared; he drew the usual
amount of air through the nose, but constantly felt the necessity of snuffling (after the
proving the old catarrh returned worse than ever), [6].
► Chronic catarrh, with elongated uvula; dryness of the
throat disappeared, [3]. ►
Habitual bleeding of the nose, [7]. ► Subjective. ► Dryness
in the nose, with crawling sensation, [7]. ► Tension across the nasal bone, as if he had drunk wine (soon
after the first bath of a quarter of an hour at 28° R.), [6].
[110.] ► Some stitching
sensation in the right nostril, with sneezing several times, and blowing out blood; on
suppression of the menses, [7]. ► Sensitiveness of the nose, as in incipient catarrh, [7]. ► Smell. ► Loss of smell, after stoppage of the nose, [7].
FACE.
► Objective. ► Yellow color of the face, [7].
► White faces, after three or four glasses become sallow,
[3]. ► In the
fourth week, he became gradually yellow (had formerly been white); the urine, however,
retained its normal color, only it had a very strong and pungent odor; the stool remained
dark green, [6]. ►
Redness and heat in the face, especially in the evening and after eating, when the organism
is always stronger, [7]. ►
Face as if somewhat swollen, [7]. ► Red swelling and pain, especially when touched, on the right
side near the nose, from a prominent tooth, at intolerable (sixteenth day), [6]. ► Subjective. [120.] ► Sensation as if
cobwebs were drawn over the face, [7]. ► Sensation on spots here and there in the face, as from a hair
which can be wiped away, [7]. ►
Transient heat in the face, [7]. ►
Sensation as if one side of the face were swelling, [7].
► Cheeks. ►
Prickling formication on the cheeks, in the region of the pes
anserina, [7]. ►
On the right cheek, in the region of the pes anserina, quivering and prickling, without
increased redness or warmth, [7]. ► Tearing-drawing on the right cheek, [7]. ► Sensation as if the
zygomatic processes were distended, [7]. ► Cutting-drawing on the zygomatic process below the right eye,
[7]. ► On the
zygomatic processes, now dull pressing, now itching-tearing toward the head, [7]. [130.] ► On the right zygomatic process a sensation of cobwebs, as if he must
constantly rub something away, [7]. ► Lower Jaw. ►
Involuntary pressure of the lower jaw against the upper, during sleep; ever grinding of the
teeth, [7].
MOUTH.
► Teeth and Gums.
► Thick, pappy, mucous coating on the teeth, [7]. ► The teeth become
very had, loosen, and fall out, [6]. ► The teeth are painfully prominent, the gum is painfully
swollen (in several persons sooner or later), [3]. ► A painful tooth bleeds of itself very much, especially when
sucking it (seventeenth day), [6]. ► Dulness of the teeth, as from an acid, [7]. ► Burrowing in an upper
hollow tooth; can endure neither cold nor warmth (fifth day), [6].
► Pain in a sound incisor, tensive, and as if the teeth
were being driven apart, on each touch of the tooth, [7].
► Slight pain in a hollow molar, passing through almost
the whole side of the face, especially the zygomatic processes, [7]. [140.] ► Tearing pain in the roots of the upper molars, [7]. ► Toothache
increased after every meal, so much so that he avoids touching the elongated tooth; relieved
by olfaction of Chamomilla, [6]. ►
Gum at times swollen, painful to touch, at times bleeding on slight pressure, [7]. ► Tongue. ► Tongue coated white, with offensive smell from the mouth,
[7]. ► Thick
yellowish-white coating on back of tongue, at times more on one half of the tongue than on
the other, [7]. ►
General Mouth. ► Dryness in the mouth and
throat, now with thirst, now without it, [7]. ► Dryness of the whole mouth, with increased thirst, especially of the
whole roof of the mouth, as if dried up, [7].
► Warmth and sensation of dryness in the soft palate and
pharynx; sensation as of swelling of these parts, [7].
► Saliva. ► Flow of
saliva, and frequent spitting; at times sensation of soreness on the uvula and
larynx, and in the throat, [7]. ►
Frequently in the morning, an increase of mucus in the mouth, [7].
[150.] ► In the
morning after waking, the entire mouth is often lined with mucus, which frequently sticks
like paste to the teeth, and causes a furry sensation in the mouth, [7]. ► Taste. ► Insipid, mucous taste, [7].
► Clayey, pappy taste, with copious salivary secretion,
[7]. ► Metallic
taste in the mouth constantly during the first part of the proving; food tasted natural, [6]. ► Salty taste in the
mouth, causing the hawking up of tough mucus, [7]. ► Everything tastes as if salted, [7]. ► Nauseous, bitter taste,
with yellow tongue, [7]. ►
Taste at first mucous, afterwards salty, sometimes bitter, [7]. ► Frequent unpleasant taste
of blood in the mouth, especially on drinking the water, [6].
► Taste of pus in the mouth comes from an upper front
tooth that has been painful; sometimes when drinking the water, or when eating, also if he
presses externally downward from the right wing of the nose, which causes a dull pain in the
place (third and fourth weeks), [6].
THROAT.
[160.] ► Constantly much hawking up of mucus, [7]. ► Transient stitches in the
throat and along the Eustachian tube, [7]. ► Frequently a rough scraping, at times becoming a tickling
sensation, in the throat, [7]. ►
Pain in the throat on swallowing, after he had omitted his neckcloth for some time, [2].® 2000
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