Teplitz
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General
Teplitz.
The mineral water of Teplitz in Bohemia. [Contains in 16 oz. Nat. c. gr. 2.28, Nat. m. .43, Nat. fl. sil. .13, K. sul. .43, K. mur. .1, Calc. c. .32, Sil. .31, &c.] Dilution.
Clinical
Amenorrhoea. Bones, affections of. Breast, tumours in. Epistaxis. Eruptions. Erysipelas. Flatulence. Gout. Haemorrhoids. Leucorrhoea. Metrorrhagia. Paralysis. Rheumatism. Sciatica. Scurvy. Speech, difficult. Spine, pains in. Tongue, paralysis of. Toothache. Ulcers. Vertigo.
Characteristics
The waters of Teplitz are chiefly in repute for the treatment of gouty patients, especially those suffering from atonic gout. The springs are alkaline and hot, and the temperature forms a leading feature in their action. The symptoms of the Schemaare Perutz', who experimented on himself and several healthy individuals, together with symptoms by Hromada. Symptoms of Nat. c. and Nat. m. appear throughout.
Tearfulness, low spirits, and irritability were noted, and giddiness of much intensity. This symptom has been cured: "Giddiness, when she walks all the houses seem to move too." Some Peculiar Symptoms are: On moving head it seems as if something fell from one side to the other. Burning in stomach, > drinking cold water. > From haemorrhoidal bleeding.
Burning sensation in many parts. Haemorrhage; epistaxis; piles; with stool; metrorrhagia. Vesicles in mouth and on tongue. Vesicular erysipelas.
Paralysis of tongue; of limbs. Cold feelings: in upper arm; in foot. Increased sensitiveness to cold. The symptoms are < at night (bone pains).
< Motion. > By friction. > Drinking cold water.
Relations
Compare: Nat. c., Nat. m., K. sul., Mang., Lith., Sil., Alm.
Mind
Anxiety
Irritable, tearful
Loud speech and absence of thought
Indisposition to work
Weak memory.
Head
Confusion of head with aching over eyes
Vertigo: with feeling of paraplegia; with faintness; with noise in ears and dim vision; with feeling, when she walks, as if all the houses moved too
On moving head, sensation as if something fell from one side to the other, with weak memory
Tearing in head with pain in throat so that he could not breathe freely
Bursting headache
Frontal headache with inclination to vomit
Throbbing headache in r. temple with swollen red face
Aching in occiput
Hair falls out
Large movable lumps on head with erysipelas of face
Vesicles on scalp
Soreness of hairy scalp, every hair causing pain when touched.
Eyes
Both eyes closed in morning with white viscid mucus
Dryness in r. eye and dimness of vision
Aching and burning in eyes
Erysipelas of lids
On r. lid two styes, which disappear without suppuration
Cramp pain in upper lids, cannot be opened except with the hand
Lachrymation
Inflammation of conjunctiva of eyelid and eye ball.
Ears
Swelling of l. concha with erysipelatous inflammation
Purulent discharge from ear
Tearing pain in interior of r. ear as from a red-hot coal
Tearing, shooting pain first in one ear, then in the other
Dulness of hearing, with sensation as if sweat stopped ears
Tinnitus.
Nose
Aching over root of nose
Pricking and dryness in nose
Frequent and profuse epistaxis.
Face
Face: swollen, red; swollen, pale.—Drawing and tearing in face; in r. side from forehead to jaw, with drawing of the jaw awry and difficult speech.
Mouth
Raging toothache, r. cheek and lower jaw drawn to l. side, preventing proper speech
Violent toothache as if all teeth suddenly pierced with a hot iron
Boring in upper molars
All incisors feel too long
Frequent bleeding of gums with loosening of teeth
Spasmodic protrusion of tongue with difficult speech
Tongue: paralysed; swollen; moist; coated white or yellow
Vesicles on back of tongue with burning pain in throat
Inside r. cheek several small vesicles which burst and form ulcers
Dry mouth with burning on tip of tongue.
Throat
Pain in throat without redness
Aching on swallowing
Tearing-drawing in muscles of throat and stiffness of neck
Swelling of uvula and tonsils with difficulty of swallowing
Swelling of cervical glands.
Stomach
Canine hunger, soon satisfied, and followed by stomachache
Anorexia: with sour taste; with white, viscid coating on tongue; with feeling of fulness in pit of stomach
Heartburn with flow of much water on tongue
Nausea, and faint feeling, and vomiting
Aching in stomach extending through to back
Pain in stomach, with burning rising up into throat as if a red hot coal lay there;
> drinking cold water
Sensation as if stomach full of water; seems to splash about when walking
Full feeling in stomach with much wind and eructation.
Abdomen
Shooting in r. hypochondrium, esp. on drawing a full breath
Tearing in umbilical region
Tense, swollen abdomen, with discharge of much flatus
Rumbling
Weight in abdomen and bearing down to genitals
Cramp of recti muscles
Swelling of inguinal glands.
Stool And Anus
Profuse bleeding of piles with > of symptoms
Passage of whitish, acrid mucus by anus
Painful piles and violent burning in anus
Burning in rectum with evacuation of viscid, blood-streaked secretion
Itching in perinaeum, with production of eruption
Frequent urging without stool
Discharge of bright red blood by stool, with colic
Stool: thin, frothy, with burning in anus; hard with bright red blood
Constipation: with nausea; with pain in back and heaviness of lower limbs.
Urinary Organs
In. urethra: flying shooting; burning in anterior part.—Urine: copious; scanty; retained; slimy; brick-dust sediment.
Male Sexual Organs
Vesicles on glans becoming speedily sore
Suppurating eruption on glans and scrotum leaving blue marks
Painful swelling of testes
Drawing in r. testis and cord
Increased desire and dreams.
Female Sexual Organs
Milk-white leucorrhoea like boiled starch
Violent tearing pain in abdomen
Menses a fortnight before time
Often pain in hypogastrium as if everything would be forced out below; menses, which had never appeared, occurred very copiously
Metrorrhagia with frightful pains in abdomen; blood black and coagulated.
Respiratory Organs
Aching in larynx > when swallowing
In larynx: dryness; roughness; tickling
In trachea: catarrh, with expectoration of viscid mucus; rawness
Hoarseness to aphonia
Cough: short, dry; suffocative; at night
Expectoration: viscid, yellow mucus; copious
Violent cough with enormous expectoration of grey colour, which only disappears when an eruption appears.
Chest
Oppression, as from great rush of blood to chest
Cramp-like contraction in chest
Shooting in intercostal muscles
Tearing in pectoralis major to shoulder
Burning under sternum
In r. breast two lumps as large as hazel-nuts with dull pain
Fine pricking as with needle in r. breast.
Heart
Violent shooting in heart; with palpitation
Action of heart: irregular, painful; intermitting
Pulse: quick, hard; fall.
Neck And Back
Bruised pain in nape and back
Tearing and drawing in nape with stiffness
Shooting pains along spinal column, from nape to lumbar vertebrae, preventing slightest motion
Tearing drawing: down back to sacrum; in scapulae
Shooting and gnawing between scapulae
Eruption of pimples on whole back
In small of back: pain < by every movement; drawing into pelvis, to calves
Aching and stitches in loins, extend to spine, with difficulty of breathing.
Limbs
Weariness and heaviness
Tearing, drawing, shooting in limbs, esp. joints
Tearing in hands and feet.
Upper Limbs
Paralysis: of r. arm; of both arms, with creeping in finger-tips
Violent pains in both arms with raised spots like syphilis
Tearing in whole arm with contraction of elbow-joint
Stiffness in l. shoulder-joint with difficulty in raising arm, esp. backwards
Violent, ever-increasing pain in r. shoulder-joint
Dislocation pain in shoulder
Paralysis of shoulders
Burning or shooting in axilla
In upper arm: shiny red swelling; cold feeling as if cold wind blew on it; sore, bruised feeling; boring, tearing; cramp
Elbow: swelling and tearing; cracking, and in wrist; shooting; burning; scab-like eruption round
Tearing down forearm to fingers
In wrist: redness, swelling; violent pains; stiffness; sprained feeling in r
Hands: tremble: swelling of; gouty nodes on fingers.
Lower Limbs
Hip-joints: stiff; tearing; shooting; bruised pains
Aching in femur with cold feeling
Numbness; jerking; crampy swelling in thighs and calves
Knee-joint: swollen, stiff; cracking in; aching in patella
Swelling and suppuration of bone in middle of l. leg
Sprained feeling in ankle
Tension in tendo Achillis, preventing putting heel to ground
Burning in heels
Shooting-jerking in great toe.
Generalities
Weariness and heaviness on waking with congestion of head.—Increased sensitiveness to draughts.
Skin
Redness of skin
Swelling and profuse perspiration
Rash like scarlatina; miliary; pustular; erysipelas, vesicular
Ulceration
Pricking as with needles.
Sleep
Sleepiness; by day
Frequent jerks on falling to sleep
Dreams: incompleted; lively with increased sexual desire.
Fever
Chilliness, shuddering
Cold feeling in shoulder; in thigh
Prickly heat, followed by moderate sweat
Copious sweat
Sour and mouldy-smelling sweat.