GETTYSBURG.
Mineral Spring at Gettysburg, Pa., U.S.A.
Analysis.
Sodium carbonate: 0.027
Sodium chloride: 0.082
Sodium Sulphate: 0.308
Magnesium carbonate: 0.041
Magnesium sulphate: 0.847
Magnesium borate: 0.004
Calcium carbonate: 0.627
Calcium sulphate: 0.104
Calcium phosphate: 0.001
Calcium fluoride: 0.001
Manganesium carbonate: 0.001
Lithium chloride: trace.
Potassium sulphate: 0.026
Ferrum carbonate: 0.003
Silicic acid: 0.254
Organic matter, with trace of Nitric acid: 0.088
Impurities suspended in water, like clay, etc.: 0.138
Total: 2.552In addition,
Cuprum carbonate, Strontium sulphate, Alumina: in
minute quantities, Niccolum carbonate, Cobaltum carbonate, Barium
sulphate: traces.
Preparation
, Evaporate the water to
dryness and triturate the residuum.
Authority.
Dr. S. Swan, Hahn. Month., 6,
389, 1, took 5 grs. of 3d trit.,
when in perfect health, had never had rheumatism (on the twenty-first
day took Calc. c. 2c, twenty-second day, Mercur. 2c, thirtieth day,
Graph. 2c, thirty-ninth day, Carb. veg. 1m, forty-sixth day, Cham. 1m,
fifty-first day, Lyc. 1m, fifty-third day, Lyc. 10m, fifty-fifth day,
Nat. mur. 1m); 2, same, two months
after former symptoms disappeared, took one dose of the 40m (Fincke).
MIND.
►
Great repugnance to studying my case, with depression of spirits, and a
heaviness and disinclination to apply myself to study in the forenoon.
This disappeared in the afternoon, or while attending to patients. It
seemed to come on when thinking of myself (from forty-second to
fifty-fifth day), [1].
HEAD.
►
Pulsating pain in the vertex, lasting three or four hours (fifteenth
day), [1]. [This was the only
headache experienced during the proving.]
MOUTH.
►
Tongue coated white (nineteenth day), [1].
► Tongue coated white; no unpleasant
taste in the mouth (seventeenth day), [1].
► Tongue slightly coated white
(sixteenth day), [1]. ► Tongue thickly coated white, enlarged,
flabby, serrated by the teeth (twenty-first day), [1]. ► Tongue
coated yellowish-white (eighteenth day), [1].
[10.] ►
Tongue gummy (eighteenth day), [1].
► Pricking, tingling, and rigidity of
the root of the tongue (sixteenth day), [1].
► Increased flow of saliva (sixteenth
day), [1].
THROAT.
►
Accumulation of mucus in right posterior nares, which is detached with
difficulty (eleventh day), [1]. ► Great accumulation of slimy, frothy mucus
in posterior nares (seventeenth day), [1].
► Hawking from right posterior nares
a tough transparent mucus, that can be drawn out in strings, and gets
between the teeth like the fibre of tough meat (fifteenth day), [1]. ►
Every morning I hawked from right posterior nares the tough stringy
mucus, and on picking the nose a long string of the same was drawn out
slightly coated with blood (twenty-first day), [1]. ► Uvula,
Fauces, and Pharynx. ►
Elongation of uvula (twenty-first day), [1].
► Bright redness of fauces, with
elongation of uvula (eleventh day), [1].
► Raw inflamed sensation in right
upper part of pharynx; the air inspired through the nostrils impinging
coldly and unpleasantly on the parts (seventh day), [1]. [20.] ► *Rigidity of the muscles of the throat
and neck on the right side and under the jaw, making deglutition painful
and difficult, as if the throat was sore; there was no swelling, and but
slight redness of the parts internally. The neck externally was
sensitive to pressure (sixteenth day), [1].
STOMACH.
►
No appetite (nineteenth day), [1].
► No appetite, except for milk
(eighteenth day), [1]. ► Thirst; drinking freely of water, and
milk and water (nineteenth and twenty-first days), [1].
ABDOMEN.
►
Pass flatus freely (nineteenth and twenty-sixth days), [1]. ► Sharp
pain in the abdomen to the right and above the navel (fourth day), [1]. ►
Had a severe attack of incarcerated flatus, with great distension of the
stomach, so that long inspiration was painful; this continued the
greater part of the day and night (twenty-first day), [1].
STOOL.
►
Bowels moved for the first time since the eighteenth day (twenty-sixth
day), [1].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Urine free, profuse, normal in color, and without sediment (thirteenth
day), [1]. [30.] ►
Urinate freely; urine darker color, somewhat turbid (nineteenth day), [1]. ►
Urine high-colored and turbid, very frequent and copious, depositing a
red sandy sediment (twenty-first day), [1].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
During the whole proving, there was complete suppression of all sexual
sensation, and while confined to the bed there was a singular detraction
or shrinkage of the penis, with great relaxation of the scrotum, [1].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
►
Breath fetid (eighteenth and twenty-first days), [1].
NECK AND BACK.
►
Rigidity at the insertion of the pectoralis major and trapezius, and in
the muscles of the neck (fifteenth day), [1].
► Was annoyed by a dull pain between
the joint of the left scapula and spine; eructation, or a swallow of
cold water, gave momentary relief; relieved by rubbing, from the
nineteenth to the twenty-second day), [1].
► On rising from bed, on stooping, or
coughing, a rigidity is felt in the lumbar region in the erector spinæ,
but not extending to the sacral region (seventy-seventh day), [1].
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.
► Rigidity in left hand and arm continue,
with slight tumefaction and heat in ball of thumb, and great sensibility
to touch and pressure. The principal rigidity to-day is in the left
adductor longus at its insertion; worse at its pubic end (seventeenth
day), [1]. ►
Morning, on rising, painful rigidity in the pubic insertion of left
adductor longus, soon followed by the same in the right, also in the
right shoulder and in the joints of the right hand, [2]. ► Extreme
soreness of the limbs to pressure, though the muscles themselves could
be taken hold of without pain (twentieth day), [1].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
[40.] ►
Arms sensitive to the cold; pain in the shoulders on sudden motion;
hands stiff and powerless, especially in the morning, better towards
evening; lifting a book or turning a door-knob is difficult and painful;
worse in grasping anything hard; difficult to squeeze a sponge dry
(thirty-eighth day), [1]. ► Shoulder. ►
Left shoulder is rigid (twenty-first day), [1]. ► Right
shoulder rigid and painful, the pain and rigidity extending down the
arm, still only in the insertions of the muscles (twenty-fifth day), [1]. ►
Arm. ► Left arm and hand
very stiff; hand much swollen and inflamed in spots (twenty-fourth day),
[1]. ►
The muscles of left arm, at insertions of biceps, and at the condyles of
the humerus, and the hands are rigid (fifteenth day), [1]. ► Arms
and hands helpless, and can be moved only with great difficulty and some
pain (twenty-sixth day), [1]. ► Left arm very bad, but no pain when
quiet, except in the inflamed joints of the fingers (twenty-fifth day), [1]. ►
In the act of lifting it is easy to designate the insertion of all the
muscles brought into action. There is no painful sensibility to pressure
on the muscles, but it is felt when bearing hard with the finger on the
ligaments (thirteenth day), [1]. ► Wrist. ►
The rigidity of the left hand was followed by a sensation of dislocation
in the joints of the wrist, hand, and fingers, causing pain and a
sensation of coming apart while lifting anything (sixteenth day), [1]. [Ruta relieved this symptom.] ► Hand. ►
*The back of the hand was much swollen, and a scarlet papulous eruption
without sensation appeared, covering the whole dorsum of the hand
(twenty-sixth day), [1]. [This
last was verified by a cure with the 1m potency, in which case the
eruption appeared also on the elbows, knees, and ankles.] [50.] ►
The day after the eruption appeared the swelling of the hand began to
decrease (thirtieth day), [1]. ► Puffiness between the knuckles of both
hands, the fingers of the right being slightly swollen (forty-first
day), [1]. ►
The right hand had the same swelling and eruption that appeared on the
left, with the same decrease of swelling; there was subsequent
desquamation of the skin of both hands; great heaviness of the arms, and
a weary feeling in the bones; both arms sensitive to cold and east winds
(thirty-second day), [1]. ► There is still some stiffness in the
joints of the hands and shoulders, on rising in the morning, and twice I
have been kept awake by the burning intermitting pain in the pisiform
bone, first in the right, and then in the left hand (seventy-seventh
day), [1]. ►
Stiffness noticed most in the morning; at night I have to try various
positions for the hands before I can find an easy one; they are still
weak, and grasping anything hard is painful (sixty-first day), [1]. ►
Hands stiff in the morning. Pain in all the joints of the hand when
exerting is forcibly, due to the pressure or strain on the ligaments;
puffiness between the two last fingers; slight cracking and desquamation
of the skin in the folds inside the hand (fifty-fifth day), [1]. ►
Weakness in hands, especially right, in grasping knob of door
(thirty-ninth day), [1]. ► Hands still weak, so that in attempting
to carve I find it impossible to overcome the least resistance
(seventy-seventh day), [1]. ► Fingers. ►
Fingers of both hands and right shoulder and wrist stiff (fifty-third
day), [1]. ►
The stiffness in the morning seems to be principally in the metacarpal
joints of the ring finger of each hand. [60.]
► Hot burning pain last night in
pisiform bone of right hand, kept me awake two hours (fifty-seventh
day), [1]. ►
Painful stiffness and want of flexibility of the finger-joints of right
hand (thirtieth day), [1]. ► I could feel the pain in the joints of
the fingers, when pressing them firmly together, or grasping anything
hard (after five months), [1].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Walking painful and difficult (eighteenth
day), [1]. ►
The muscles of the right leg began to be affected, principally at the
knee, while flexing the leg; the pressure on the patella feeling like a
narrow band of steel pressing upon a very sensitive spot of the size of
a quarter of a dollar, but all pain ceased when the leg had been flexed
by the aid of the hands (nineteenth day), [1].
► Could not move either leg at all
(twentieth day), [1]. ► Hip. ►
Unable to rise. The rigidity of the ligaments and insertions of the
muscles of hip, knee, and foot, rendered it impossible to move the left
leg without great pain; no pain while lying quiet (nineteenth day), [1]. ►
Thigh. ► This morning the
left vastus externus was affected at its insertions. The muscles of the
left thigh left sore on pressure, a symptom that has not before
appeared, but did not on lifting them up (eighteenth day), [1]. ►
Knee. ► Slight rigidity in
knees, hips, and insertions of muscles, that had been affected during
the proving (thirty-ninth day), [1].
► A painful spot appeared in the
afternoon on the top of the right knee, a little to the left of the
centre; perceived when pressing upon it, and when walking (eighteenth
day), [1]. ► Foot. [70.]
► The left foot is somewhat swollen
and hot, and the great to-joint is swollen, hot, and sensitive when
stepping on it (eighteenth day), [1].
► Sensation of dislocation in the
foot, as described in the hand (eighteenth day), [1].
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
►
General stiffness, on moving (second morning), [2]. ► Great
rigidity of the muscles, like rheumatism, but without inflammation or
pain. Nearly all of the muscles are involved, but it is more prominent
in the lumbar region, and in the joints of the hip, shoulders, elbows,
and wrists; when quiet it is not perceived; it is apparent during slow
movement, but does not interfere with rapid exercise like walking. The
location of the rigidity is at the insertion of the muscles and in the
ligaments, but not in the bellies of the muscles (thirteenth day), [1]. ►
The rigidity of the muscles is most apparent in the morning (fifteenth
day), [1]. ►
The rigidities are not noticeable when lying quiet, but on rising from a
seat or a recumbent position the various muscles affected can be easily
indicated (seventeenth day), [1]. ► Very weak (thirty-first day), [1]. ►
Still feel weak; it is most apparent in my voice (fifty-seventh day), [1]. ►
Faint feeling when attempting to walk (eighteenth day), [1]. ► Very
uneasy after 1 o’clock A.M.; the bed feels hard; lying in one position
causes a painful pressure on the part (sixteenth day), [1]. [80.] ► Could not remain long in one position,
not from pain nor restlessness, but from a sense of discomfort
(twenty-first day), [1].
SKIN.
►
Burning spot, size of a dollar, in palm of right hand toward the wrist,
slightly painful; relieved momentarily by heat. Cold water, or touching
anything cold, is painful; was kept awake by it (fifty-first day), [1]. ►
Inflamed spots appeared on the left tibia, knee, and great toe-joints
(twentieth day), [1].
SLEEP.
►
Rested quietly during the night, on my back (nineteenth night), [1]. [I had under me a heavy English
sheepskin rug, with very long thick wool, and to this I attribute my
comfortable rest, and freedom from heat under the back.] ► Was restless during the latter part of
the night; could find no easy position (seventeenth night), [1].
FEVER.
►
Transient chills during the day (seventeenth day), [1]. ► Fever,
followed by profuse perspiration on the upper part of the body
(twenty-first day), [1].
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (Coughing), Rigidity in lumbar region. ► (Moving),
Stiffness of muscle. ► (Moving head), The symptoms. ► (Rising from bed),
Rigidity in lumbar region. ► (Stooping), Rigidity in lumbar region. ► (Thinking of
self), Depression of spirits, etc. ►
Amelioration. ► (Rest), Pain in ligaments; stiffness of
muscles. ► (Rubbing),
Pain between scapula and spine.® 2000
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