BARTFELDER (ACID SPRING).
Cold springs in Upper Hungary; temperature from 45° to 50° F.
Analysis
(Schultes), 16 ounces furnished 11.59 grains of
residue, containing sodium carbonate, 6.07 grains; sodium chloride, 3.03; potassium
carbonate, 0.75; potassium chloride, 0.62; ferrum carbonate, 0.40; silica, 0.35; extractive,
0.37.
Authority.
Dr. Schreter, Archiv. f. Hom. Heilk., 19, 1, 176;
provings by himself (1); his wife (2); and a child (3); from sitz-baths, and from drinking
the water.
MIND.
► During the whole
time there is a kind of slight intoxication, though no special exhilaration; nor is he less
active; especially he sees indistinctly, particularly when walking, [1]. ► Lively and contented, [1]. ► Disposition rather
earnest than lively, [2]. ►
More fretful and sensitive every trifle vexes him; he is morose, reflective; will not speak
nor answer, [1].
HEAD.
► Confusion of the
head after drinking, as after intoxication. ► With this
she is not lively, but rather indifferent and in an earnest mood, [2]. ► Confusion of the whole
head, burning and dry sensation of the eyes and qualmishness in the stomach, [1]. ► Headache as if stupefied
with pressive heaviness in the brain, [1]. ► Heaviness in the whole head, especially in the occiput; it
draws the head backwards, [1]. ►
Pressive heaviness of the head with drawing in the neck, [1].
► Heaviness in the head immediately on waking, [1]. [10.] ► Plethoric persons suffer on drinking the water with severe
congestion of the head, [1]. ►
Boring headache, which concentrates itself in the right eye, at evening in the open air, [1]. ► Constrictive
sensation in the forehead, extending down to the root of the nose, in the evening after
smoking, [1]. ►
Drawing tearing headache in the occiput, extending down to the neck, with a waving sensation
in the brain after one-half hour, [1]. ► Drawing tearing headache in the occiput, extending into the
neck, even while in the bath, [1]. ► After the bath, when he lies in bed to rest, the drawing in
the occiput and in the neck repeats itself, with throbbing and pulsation in the occipital
vessels, [1]. ►
Pulsating in the occiput and neck, with sticking pains therein, [1]. ► Throughout the whole time
scurf on the occiput; it itches and, after scratching, becomes covered with a yellowish
amber-like scurf, and at the same time exudes a moisture, [1].
EYES AND EARS.
► Burning
and dryness of the eyes, with confusion of the head, and qualmishness in the stomach, [1]. ► After coition,
pressive pain over the left eye and in the eyeball itself, [1].
[20.] ► In plethoric
persons the eye becomes agglutinated at night from using the water, [1]. ► In plethoric persons
agglutination of the eyes at night, and a violent congestion of the head is caused by the
use of the water, [1]. ►
Especially on walking he does not see distinctly, throughout the whole time as if he were
slightly intoxicated, [1]. ►
Sticking in the ears, [2].
NOSE AND MOUTH.
► The
corners of the nose become eroded, as in severe coryza. Constrictive sensation in the upper
incisors, as if they were firmly pressed together, and hence became asleep, a kind of numb
sensation, [1]. ► A
hollow tooth becomes ulcerated, with swelling of the cheek, [2].
► After becoming chilled in the night she is attacked
with a raging toothache, [2]. ►
Toothache in a hollow tooth, a kind of tearing-drawing, aggravated by cold water and by
touch of the finger, [1]. ►
Grumbling in a hollow tooth, [1]. ► Throbbing pain in a hollow tooth, [1]. [30.] ►
Inky taste on the tongue, at night on waking, [1]. ► He is obliged to expectorate much frothy saliva, [1].
THROAT.
► Much hawking and
raising of mucus, [1]. ►
Dryness in the throat, [1]. ►
Scratching in the throat, causing a dry cough, [1].
STOMACH.
► Appetite
increased, especially in the evening, [2]. ► Sensation of hunger soon after breakfast, which disappeared
after eructations, [1]. ►
Eructations after the acid water, [2]. ► Eructations soon after drinking the acid water in large
quantities, [1]. ►
Empty eructations in the evening, [1]. [40.] ► Eructations, as of bad
eggs, in the morning, [1]. ►
Eructations, with a crawling passage of air through the nose several times (after six
minutes), [1]. ►
Qualmishness in the stomach, with confusion of the head, and a sensation of dryness of the
eyes, [1]. ►
Nausea, [1]. ►
Vomiting at breakfast, [1].
ABDOMEN.
► Distension of
the abdomen, [1]. ►
Abdomen distended like a drum, [1]. ► Distension of the abdomen with passage of flatulence, [2]. ► Passage of
flatulence, [1]. ►
A kind of colic, pinching-drawing pain in the abdomen, in the morning on waking, immediately
after a glass of the water, [1].
STOOL AND ANUS.
[50.] ► Crawling in the rectum, [1].
► The hæmorrhoids protrude very much, and pain when
walking, [1]. ►
(The hæmorrhoids protrude with the stool), [1]. ► Burning in the hæmorrhoids during the sitz-bath, [1]. ► Desire for stool
(after ten minutes), [1]. ►
Desire for stool, which is more firm, though normal in form, [1].
► At night desire for stool, but with much pressure; no
stool follows, [1]. ►
Hard stool in the morning, [1]. ►
Stool twice in the day, consisting of large cohesive masses, [2].
► Stool in the morning immediately on waking, and
followed by a second, and in two hours by a third; the last is pasty, dark greenish-brown,
with protrusion of the hæmorrhoids, [1]. [60.] ► Stool six times in the
day, the first normal, the others liquid with mucus and bright-red blood, with great
protrusion of the hæmorrhoids; also, at other times, frequent desire for stool when only
blood passes. On walking, the hæmorrhoids become strangulated and cause a constant desire,
tenesmus, and pressure in the rectum, [1]. ► Stool copious, soft, normal in form and color, [1]. ► One hard stool like nuts
and sheep dung, [1]. ►
No stool during the day, [1]. [Secondary action.]
URINARY ORGANS.
► Discharge
of a little mucus from the orifice of the urethra, which leaves a spot as of semen, [1]. ► Burning in the
orifice of the urethra during a cold bath, [1]. ► Burning, twinging sensation in the orifice of the urethra
during a bath, [1]. ►
Burning when urinating, with a gnawing sensation along the urethra, even when not urinating,
[1]. ► Urging to
urinate, with burning and cutting, which returns later, and even when walking, [1]. ► Frequent urinating
day and night, [2]. [70.]
► Frequent urinating of clear white urine, [2]. ► Frequent urinating, though
little at a time, [1]. ►
On urinating in the morning the stream is always interrupted; is obliged to stop eight times
and commence again before the bladder is emptied, [1].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
► Male.
► Throughout the whole proving, no erections and no
sexual desire, though to-day when caressing sudden desire for coition, which was reciprocal;
his wife had until this time complete want of sexual desire (seventh day), [1]. ► Strong erections toward
morning, and also in a warm bath; on coition, however, very little sensation, and none with
the ejaculation; the semen is watery (seventeenth day), [1].
► Burning in the genitals and hæmorrhoids during a
sitz-bath, [1]. ►
The testicles are heavy, larger, and seem swollen in the evening, [1]. ► Female. ► Biting and burning internally in the female genitals; feeling
well generally after a bath, [2]. ► Sticking in the female genitals, [2]. ► Usually after menstruation
there was desire for coition, but this time none, and on coition only transient enjoyment, [2]. [80.] ► Menstruation appeared on the thirty-second day (the previous
time on the fortieth day), the first day more profuse than usual, the blood passed in
clotted masses like liver, is very fetid; the second day no blood only at night; the third
day almost none; formerly she had pains, this time none, [2].
RESPIRATORY APPARATUS AND CHEST.
►
Hoarseness during the whole proving; most severe in the morning, [2]. ► Hoarseness, even in the
bath, and also in the morning on waking, [2]. ► Hoarseness and a scraping sensation in the throat, [1]. ► Difficult
breathing, [1]. ►
Sticking in the chest, with pressure of breathing, and dryness in the throat in the
afternoon, [1].
HEART AND PULSE.
► After
drinking coffee, palpitation of the heart, anxiety, heat, congestion of blood in the head,
with confusion, sleepiness, and restlessness in the whole body (after two hours), [1]. ► Cramp of the
heart; it seems as if it were constricted, though only for a moment with a stitch, [1].
NECK AND BACK.
► Oppressive
pain in the neck, extending into the occiput, [1]. ► He feels sore below the shoulder and in the lumbar region,
especially on elevating the arms, and on walking, [1].
[90.] ► He feels
bruised and lame in the small of the back in the evening, [1].
UPPER EXTREMITIES.
►
Trembling of the arms and hands, even when resting them upon anything; if he holds anything
in the hands the trembling is worse, [1]. ► The balls of the little finger of the left hand feel frozen,
are red, itch, and burn for several days, most severely in the morning, [1].
LOWER EXTREMITIES.
►
Bruised pain in the flesh of the nates and hip-joint, [2].
► While walking the knees knock together, and a sensation
of fatigue and weakness in the thick flesh of the thigh, [1].
► Weakness of the knees, especially on walking; they
knock together, [1]. ►
Throughout the whole proving, weakness of the knees and heaviness of the feet, [2]. ► Weak in the knees,
especially when walking, with yawning, [1]. ► Spasmodic contraction in the left calf, [1]. ► Throbbing and pulsating in
the tendo Achillis of the left foot, as if something were in it, and then it goes to sleep
as if it became numb; this disappears on walking, and returns on sitting still (noticed
during a walk in the morning), [1]. [100.] ► The right heel feels
frozen; this extends as far as the toes, [1]. ► At night, in bed, sticking in a corn, which wakes him, [1]. ► The nails of the
toes are colored bluish, as if from tan, especially in the corners where they are covered by
the neighboring toe, [1]. ►
The skin between the toes is inky black, [1].
GENERALITIES.
► So weak
that he can scarcely rise for sleepiness, in the forenoon, [1].
► General well feeling after a bath, [2]. ► Transient swarming
sensation in the face and on the body, [2].
SKIN.
► Nettlerash for
several days, especially in the morning and evening, with sticking pains, which compel him
to scratch, after which it burns, [1]. ► A tetter on the forehead and below the right eye, which
itches very much, and dries up after a few days, [1]. ► During the last days of the proving a pustular eruption
appeared on the abdomen as large as a half dollar, with itching in the evening; it then
became dry, and remained stationary for some time, [2].
[110.] ► On the right
nates a small furuncle, which dries up after awhile, [1].
► In a cold bath, a pricking sensation, as with needles;
the whole body becomes red, with elevated patches like nettlerash; especially are the hands
and feet swollen, so that he cannot extend the hands well for two hours; the legs become
red, [1].
SLEEP AND DREAMS.
►►
Yawning, [1]. ►
Much yawning in the forenoon. ► Sleepy and weak the whole
day, [1]. ► Very
sleepy in the morning; he has no will to rise, and feels chilly, [1]. ► In the forenoon and
afternoon so very sleepy that she is obliged to sleep several hours; at night many dreams
and restless sleep, [2]. ►
For three nights he wakes several times, but soon sleeps again, [1]. ► (Falls asleep late and
wakes early, with restless, indistinct dreams), [1]. ► Vivid dreams of funerals, [1].
► Dreams at night of journeyings, with restlessness and
anxiety, [1]. [120.]
► Anxious dreams of being pursued, [1].
FEVER.
► Dread of a cold
bath; he will not remain long in it, [1]. ► (In the night while asleep he took off his shirt, laid the
pillow at the foot of the bed, and finally awoke on account of chilliness. The child has two
attacks of fever like quartan fever; chilliness in the evening, alternating with heat
without thirst, with pain in the head and abdomen without sweat; it disappears after several
loose stools; this followed eating pears, [3].) ► After the bath internal shivering and chilliness in the
hands, with blue nails and burning heat over the whole skin, [1].
► Heat in the face, alternating with shivering in the
back (after one and a half hours), [1]. ► Heat and confusion of the head, [1]. ► Heat and sweat on the
forehead (after half an hour). ► Heat and sweat on the
forehead, with restlessness after coffee, [1].
CONDITIONS.
► Aggravation.
► (Morning),
Eructations; on waking, immediately after a glass of water, colic in abdomen; hoarseness; itching etc., in little finger; nettlerash. ► (Forenoon), Yawning. ► (Afternoon), Dryness of
throat. ► (Evening), In the open air, headache, etc.;
eructations; testicles seem swollen; bruised feeling, etc., in small of back; nettlerash;
itching on abdomen; chilliness. ► (Night), On waking, inky taste on tongue; agglutination of the
eye; in bed, sticking in corn. ► (During the sitz bath), Burning in the hæmorrhoids. ► (At breakfast), Vomiting.
► (After being chilled),
In the night, raging toothache. ► (After drinking coffee), Palpitation of the heart, etc.; heat,
etc., on forehead, etc. ► (After
coition), Pain over left eye, etc. ► (During a cold bath), Burning in orifice of urethra; prickling
sensation, etc. ► (Cold water),
Toothache. ► (After drinking),
Confusion of the head. ► (Holding
anything in hand), Trembling of the arms and hands. ►
(After scratching), Nettlerash burns. ► (On sitting still),
Throbbing, etc., in tendo Achillis returns. ► (Touch of the finger), Toothache. ►
(On waking), Immediately, heaviness in the head. ► (When walking), Sees indistinctly; hæmorrhoids protrude, etc.; hæmorrhoids
become strangulated, etc.; sore feeling below shoulders, etc.; knees knock together; weakness of the knees. ►
Amelioration. ► (Evening),
Appetite increased. ► (After a
bath), General well feeling. ► (After eructations), Sensation of hunger disappears. ► (On walking), Throbbing,
etc., in left tendo Achillis, etc., disappears.® 2000
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