HALL.
The salt springs of Hall in Upper Austria; containing
iodides and bromides; specific gravity 1.0108; temperature 9° R.
Analysis of 10,000 grammes.
By Netwald.
By Kauer.
Sodium chloride,
Sodium iodide,
Potassium chloride,
Calcium chloride,
Calcium carbonate,
Calcium phosphate,
Magnesium chloride,
Magnesium iodide,
Magnesium bromide,
Magnesium carbonate,
Ferrum carbonate,
Aluminium silicate,
Alumina,
Silica,
Organic matter,14.890
0.079
0.065
3.819
0.626
0.034
3.414
0.371
0.674
0.315
0.114
0.038
0.000
0.095
0.026121.700
0.000
0.397
4.009
0.000
0.000
2.426
0.426
0.584
0.000
0.044
0.000
0.147
0.249
0.000Solid constituents,
Free carbonic acid,155.603
1.401130.715
4.366(One volume of water contains 0.22 volume of carbonic
acid in solution.)
Authorities.
1
to 3, provings by females suffering
from goitre, daily doses of 2 to 8 spoonfuls for several weeks, Dr.
Huber, Oest. Zeit. f. Hom., 2, 526; 4,
Dr. Haller, Oest. Med. Jahrb., xvi, 525, effects on patients (mostly
suffering from goitre), from Hygea, 11, 500.
MIND.
►
Confusion of the senses, [4].
HEAD.
►
Vertigo, as if intoxicated (twenty-fifth day), [2]. ► Pain in
the head, [4]. ► Headache, especially at first, sometimes
increasing in severity and accompanied by vertigo, roaring in the ears,
sparks before the eyes, etc., [4].
► Drawing tearing in the vertex
towards the right temporal region (after half an hour), [2]. ►
Transient, painful tearings in the occiput (sixteenth day), [2].
EYE.
►
Heat, burning, and violent watering of the eyes, with feeling of catarrh
in the nose, as though she had smelled Ammonium
causticum (after half an hour, fifth day), [1].
EAR.
►
Great difficulty of hearing (tenth day), [3].
NOSE.
►
Frequent sneezing and feeling of commencing coryza (second day), [1]. [10.]
► Frequent, violent sneezing (after
half an hour, eleventh day), [1].
FACE.
►
Painful swelling of the lymphatic gland, as large as a pigeon’s egg, on
the right side of the face, close to the ear (twenty-eighth day), [2].
MOUTH.
►
Accumulation of saliva, [4].
THROAT.
►
Hawking, with expectoration of mucus, [4].
► Frequent hawking (twenty-fifth
day), [2]. ►
Burning and tickling in the throat, [4].
► Rawness within the throat, obliging
frequent hawking, as if tough mucus collected there which was difficult
to loosen, with hoarseness (third day), [12].
► Scraping sensation within the
throat (pharynx and larynx), as from acrid, rancid fat (twenty-fifth
day), [2]. ►
Scraping sensation in the throat, like rawness, with hoarseness,
frequent hawking and spitting, the whole day (second day), [3]. ►
Swelling of one of the cervical glands (very remarkable, since, in her
whole life, she had never suffered from her glands); examination showed
on the anterior portion of the neck, between the hyoid bone and thyroid
cartilage, a swelling of the lymphatic gland as large as a walnut, which
was painless and easily movable (after sixteen days), [3]. [20.] ► (The goitre entirely disappeared), [1]. ►
(The goitre gradually disappeared after three weeks), [2]. ► Tensive
sensation in the goitre (fifteenth day), [2].
STOMACH.
►
Eructation. ►
Regurgitation of bitter, nauseous fluid from the stomach (eighth day), [2]. ►
Acidity in the stomach, like heartburn (after one hour), [3]. ► Nausea and
Vomiting. ► Qualmish
nausea in the evening (first day), [3].
► Qualmish nausea in the stomach on
going to bed (first day), [2]. ► Awoke from sleep with qualmish nausea in
the stomach (first day), [1]. ► Vomiting, [4].
► Stomach. ► Painful sensation in the stomach, as of
emptiness and hunger, although she had eaten much supper (one hour after
4 spoonfuls); the stomach felt painful and sick, as if it would fall out
(fifteenth day), [1]. [30.] ►
Violent gnawing pain in the stomach, extending downward into the
intestines, like a very acute sensation of hunger (eleventh day), [2].
ABDOMEN.
►
Cutting griping in the abdomen, commencing near the right side of the
navel, extending outward, then following the course of the colon to the
rectum, involving a large circle about the navel, followed by rumbling
in the abdomen, as if for stool, lasting a quarter of an hour, and
returning at short intervals (third day), [1].
► Transient painful sensation in the
right flank, [1].
STOOL.
►
Thin, pasty evacuations, increasing to violent diarrhœa, [4]. ►
Unusually hard, difficult stool (sixth day), [1].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Increased secretion of pale urine (sometimes showing a trace of Iodine),
[4].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Menstruation unusually profuse at first, at the right time, [1]. ►
Menstruation lasting only one day (usually lasting three days), [2]. ►
Menstruation appeared without any pain (this was very remarkable, since
she had always been subject to pains in the abdomen therewith; this
curative action was permanent), [3].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
► Voice. ►
Hoarseness (third day), [2]. [40.] ►
Hoarse, piping voice, scarcely audible (twenty-fifth day), [2]. ►
Cough. ► Cough, [4]. ► Cough
in the morning after rising (second day), [2].
► Dry cough in the evening, with
catarrh, which became loose in the morning (after a few days), [3]. ►
Cough, hoarse barking, very violent, dry (the tone of the voice and the
hoarseness associated with it remind one of a croupy cough and the cough
of consumption, where there are tuberculous ulcers or erosion of the
larynx), (twenty-fifth day), [2]. ► Respiration. ►
Remarkable dyspnœa, with palpitation on ascending a slight elevation,
followed by the appearance of menstruation (twelfth day), [2].
CHEST.
►
Oppression of the chest, with difficult breathing (after a few days), [3]. ►
Frequent waking from sleep on account of sticking in the right side of
the thorax (third night), [1]. ► A transient stitch in the sternum, above
the pit of the stomach, wakes her from sleep at night (sixteenth night),
[1]. ►
Two very violent stitches in the right side, just below the right
breast, during rest (eighteenth day), [2].
► Mammæ. [50.] ►
Her breasts, which were usually firm and full, became small and flabby
(tenth day), [3]. ► Transient burning and sticking in the
left mamma (third day), [1]. ► Itching-sticking burning superficially in
the left nipple, temporarily relieved by rubbing, lasting eight or ten
seconds, and returning after a short time (after half an hour), [1]. ►
Some stitches in the cartilaginous portion of the left nipple (twelfth
day), [1]. ►
Frequent stitches beneath the left breast (fifteenth day), [1]. ►
Frequent transient stitches, at times excessively violent, in both
breasts, with such painful sensitiveness that she could scarcely endure
the pressure of her linen or of the bed covering; it seemed as though an
angry ulcer was forming deep in the substance of the breast; motion and
touch aggravated it; this trouble lasted three weeks, was most violent
at night, frequently waking her from sleep; it gradually disappeared
with the goitre (thirty-fifth day), [2].
► Violent stitches in the substance
of the right breast, piercing the nipple from within outward, waking
from sleep at night (eleventh night), [1].
► Great painfulness and heaviness in
both breasts, especially on touch and motion, with feeling as though
they would fall off (sixteenth day), [1].
HEART AND PULSE.
►
Palpitation, [4]. ► Pulse greatly accelerated, [4].
BACK.
[60.]
► Pain like a sprain, extending from
the right lumbar region across the right side of the small of the back
down into the right ischium (seventeenth day), [2].
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.
► Trembling of the limbs, [4].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► She was unable to exert the right arm
without violent pain in the axilla; on examination, there was found a
dark-red, swollen, hot, lymphatic gland, extremely painful to touch, as
large as a walnut; after five days of pain it gathered and broke (after
thirty days), [3]. ► Drawing-tearing pain in the left humerus,
extending into the elbow, recurring several times (eighteenth day), [2]. ►
Drawing pain in the lower end of the left elbow, as if in the bone or
periosteum, while sitting still, followed by some violent stitches just
below the left breast, close to its margin (thirteenth day), [1].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Violent sticking, as with needles, in the
right heel, lasting a quarter of an hour, and returning after a short
pause (fifth day), [1].
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
►
Great weakness, [4].
SKIN.
►
Objective. ► A furuncle as
large as a hazel-nut in the right eyebrow near the inner canthus, with
burning pain when touched, without much redness; this maturated the next
day and disappeared after four days (twenty-seventh day), [2]. ► Very
small furuncles on the right breast, soon healing (first few days), [3]. ►
A bluish-red furuncular pimple on the left breast, just below the
nipple, as large as a hazel-nut, with a black point at the tip (tenth
day), [3]. [70.] ► A
small painful furuncle on the posterior surface of the right upper arm,
showing some matter at the tip, and afterwards drying up to a black
point, disappearing after some days (twenty-sixth day), [2]. ► Burning
pain in the skin on the dorsal surface of the left forearm, affecting an
oblong spot, with slight redness, lasting several minutes (fifth day), [1].
SLEEP AND DREAMS.
►
Many dreams at night (fourth night), [1].
► Night restless, with many dreams
(seventeenth night), [1]. ► Numerous unpleasant dreams (second day), [2].
FEVER.
►
Exhausting night-sweats, [4].® 2000
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