Wiesbaden
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General
Wiesbaden.
The Spring at Wiesbaden, in Prussia. (Contains in sixteen ounces Carbonic acid 6.416 cubic inches, Nitrogen 0.103 cubic inches; of the following solids, in grains, Nat. m. 52.49, K. mur. 1.119 Li. mur. 0.00138, Am. mur. 0.128, Calc. mur. 3.617, Mag. mur l.566, Mag. bro. 0.027, Calc. sul. 0.692, Calc. ph. 0.0029, Calc ars. 0.0015, Calc. c. 3.210, Mag. c. 0.079, Fer. c. 0.043, Mang. c. 0.004, Silicic acid 0.46, Alumina silicica 0.603; traces of Mag. iod., Stro. c., Cup. c.) Dilution.
Clinical
Amenorrhoea. Angina pectoris. Body, odour of, offensive. Constipation. Corns. Diarrhoea. Ear-wax, excessive. Epistaxis. Glaucoma. Gout. Haemorrhage. Haemorrhoids. Hair, rapid growth of; falling of; grows darker. Hernia, inguinal; femoral. Indigestion. Miscarriage, prevents. Rheumatism. Sterility. Vertigo; caduca. Whitlow.
Characteristics
The hot, chlorinated saline springs of Wiesbaden (Fontes Mattiaci of Pliny) contain 8.176 grammes of solids to each litre, and of these Nat. mur. makes up more than seven grammes. The baths, which constitute the chief part of the treatment, are extremely excitant. The baths, combined with drinking the water, generally determine at the commencement of the cure certain phenomena of saturation which disappear on temporary suspension of the treatment. The most common of these is a saburral state of the stomach, and a feeling of fulness and tension in the whole abdomen.
Gout and rheumatism are the chief affections for which Wiesbaden is sought. Passive or atonic gout is the only kind for which Wiesb. is suited, and these cases usually pass through a period of aggravation before improvement sets in. Torpid and nodous rheumatism are benefited, the douche being employed as well as the bath. Paralysis.; muscular and tendinous contractions; sprains; in complete anchyloses; stiffness from old fractures; gunshot wounds which are slow to heal, are also benefited by Wiesb.
"Abdominal plethora and portal obstruction are relieved." "By the artificial congestion which they set up in the venous plexus of the rectum they have for an almost constant effect the disengorgement of the viscera under the diaphragm, and the prevention of stasis in their parenchyma" (Constantin James—to whom I am indebted for the whole of the above facts). Apelt observed the effects of drinking the water and excessive bathing. Magdeburg observed the effects on eight healthy persons.
The excitant, congestive, and evacuant effects mentioned by James appear in the provings. Blood rushes to the face. There is vertigo when lying in bed; and vertigo which causes falling. Haemorrhages occur from anus and nose which relieve other symptoms.
Fermentation occurs in the abdomen, and there is great exhaustion after diarrhoea. Haemorrhoidal flow occurs with > of abdominal plethora. In one case nose-bleed occurred persistently for six weeks, at the end of which a weakness of vision bordering on blindness was cured. During the menses there is great weakness; also constipation.
A number of remarkable symptoms appeared in reference to the skin and nails. The hair grew rapidly and became darker. Nails also grew rapidly. Corns and callosities dropped off.
Berridge cured with Wiesb. 200 a Miss B., 21, of a soft corn between fourth and fifth toes of right foot. There was burning and shooting pain in the corn (H. P., vii. 477). With the sweat of Wiesb. there is itching.
The sweat on the diseased parts made a brown stain. The urine stiffened linen. The symptoms were: > By nose-bleed; by haemorrhoidal flux. < During menses.
< From coffee (frequent micturition). < Lying in bed (vertigo).
Relations
Compare: Nat. m. Corns, Fer. pic. Callosities, Ant. c. Hair turns darker, jabor., Pilo., Wild.
Mind
Becomes more cheerful (after 7th d.)
Impatient, depressed, hopeless
Anxiety and uneasiness prevent sleep
Apprehensive
Ill-humour
Peevish, talks to no one
Disinclined to think.
Head
Vertigo: falls while walking; whirling in head, kind of insensibility, trembling faintness, spasmodic hiccough, alternations of chills and heat, thirst, haemorrhage while riding in a carriage
Dizziness and heaviness of head while lying in bed, sensation as if she would fall
Reeling and tottering, objects move before the eyes
Head heavy, dull
Hair: grows much more rapidly than usual; falls out and grows again rapidly; new growth darker; formerly soft, becomes hard and brittle
On scalp: large boils; desquamation; itching, as from vermin; intolerable; incessant.
Eyes
Glistening of eyes without clearness; slimy moisture is wiped from them
Copious secretion: tenacious; slimy; purulent
Moisture in canthi
Eyes ache
Pressure deep in eyeballs
Eyeballs painful
Increased tension
Falling of eyebrows and lashes, with rapid secondary growth
Itching of lids and margins
All things seem to move before eyes when walking; reeling; staggers to and fro
Weakness of vision > by persistent nose-bleed.
Ears
Copious secretion of ear-wax; soft; slimy; pale brown; thin, almost fluent
Tickling sticking in meatus
Much itching of ear, > after copious flow of ear-wax
Pains in ears
Roaring in ears with diminished hearing.
Nose
Frequent sneezing, secretion of thick mucus
Secretion from nose: watery; tenacious, like isinglass; yellow mucus for four months
Nose-bleed for six weeks, with which weakness of vision, bordering on blindness, disappeared
Inclination to nose-bleed
Frequent itching of nostrils.
Face
Expression of suffering
Face: sunken; emaciated; red and hot, with itching; circumscribed redness
Blood rushes violently to face
Sensation of cobweb lying on skin of l. cheek (2nd d.)
Profuse sweat on face compels rubbing.
Mouth
Teeth seem too long
Drawing tearing in teeth, so he could scarcely eat
Gums: became scorbutic after long bathing; blistered; loose and painful; sore while eating
Tongue: fuzzy with nauseous taste; white on edges; middle brown
Injected veins under tongue
Mouth dry
Skin forms folds on inner side of mouth, lips, and cheeks, after which it peels off
Tickling in posterior part of palate
Very bad taste in morning.
Throat
Inclination to clear throat.—Swollen cervical and parotid glands.
Stomach
Appetite: great; at first increased, afterwards diminished
Thirst: great, with chilliness; for refreshing drinks
Qualmish; inclination to vomit; vomiting
Promotes. digestion
Pressure in stomach, feeling of fulness and visible swelling of epigastric region.
Abdomen
(Inflammation of the liver.)
Violent pain in region of spleen
Emission of much flatus; preceded by much rumbling and fermentation in abdomen
Fermentation < after drinking the water
Heaviness
Colic
Dragging from abdomen, half-way down r. thigh, at the point where a femoral hernia had protruded, with a sensation as if the hernia would protrude (lasting several days, very distressing)
Swelling of r. inguinal region, with a sensation of an inguinal hernia.
Stool And Anus
Haemorrhage from rectum
Haemorrhoidal flow (curative of abdominal plethora)
Burning in rectum and bowels
While urinating very urgent desire for stool
Diarrhoea: early in morning, after drinking the water; scanty; copious, slimy; then liquid, mixed with lumps, great exhaustion; then pasty; involuntary; black; grey; slimy; smells like rotten eggs
Stools more seldom as activity of skin or kidneys increases
Constipation
Retained stool
No stool during menses
Stool lustreless, like hardened membranous bile.
Urinary Organs
(Inflammation of the kidneys.)
Pressure in region of kidneys
Urination frequent; during night;
< after coffee; scanty with perspiration
Urine: copious, becoming dark, with a greenish-yellow sediment; clear, light yellow, fatty; sediment in urine with "haemorrhoids of the bladder."
Urine stiffens linen.
Male Sexual Organs
Genitals turgid, excited
Intolerable itching on genitals
Emissions.
Female Sexual Organs
(A woman, married for several years, became pregnant for the first time.)
Miscarriage, that had taken place several times, was avoided
Oozing of slimy moisture from the vagina
Menses profuse, like haemorrhage for several days, then scanty, but continued fourteen days
Scanty menses increased
Menses return after climacteric
Menses, usually late, became earlier and more profuse
Menstrual flow, that had been long absent, returned on sixteenth day after drinking the water, with whirling in head, trembling, faintness, colic, alternations of chill, heat, and sweat, with thirst, cramp in thighs, calves, feet, with cramp-like hiccough; menses very profuse
Menstrual blood: seems like mucus; slimy dark-coloured, not watery
During menses, great weakness.
Respiratory Organs
Loose cough in morning
Expectoration: lumps of mucus; firm, tenacious mucus; sweetish after drinking the water; salt
Respiration in the bath, at first accelerated, gradually becoming slow, after which gradually increases
Short breath on walking, on ascending.
Chest
Oppression of the breath, constriction of chest in region of diaphragm as soon as that region is bathed; obliged to raise chest out of water; returned whenever the water reached the region of diaphragm.—Chest seems constricted by clothes, which are not tight.
Heart
Slight angina pectoris
Becomes very weak about the heart
Beat of heart accelerated, violent
Palpitation
Pulse: slow; irregular; accelerated; intermittent.
Neck
Tension and stiffness in nape.—Drawing in nape.
Limbs
Trembling of limbs with weakness
Very rapid growth of nails
Limbs: feel light, with desire to move; heavy; indolent; weary; exhausted
Swelling of hands and feet disappeared after copious sweat
Sweat of hands and feet.
Upper Limbs
Trembling of hands.—Inclined to panaritia.
Lower Limbs
Great weariness of lower limbs, with pain in toes
Cramp in thighs
Rheumatic pain in r. thigh for several days, < walking
Pain in r. thigh-bone as if hernia would protrude
Feet: painful and sensitive; burning
Corns become raised, softened, and drop off
Strong odour of sweat on feet.
Generalities
Body smells like rotten eggs.—Great ease and vigour of motion.—Feeling of comfort with very profuse sweat.—(Less weakness).—Weariness; fatigue; exhaustion; uneasiness.—Faintness.—Dormant rheumatism reappears.—Aversion to the water, sometimes causing cramp-like sensations when coming near the bath.—Much inclined to take cold.—Whole body feels bruised.
Skin
In the bath the skin becomes thick, parchment-like, after a while rough like sand between the fingers, feeling wrinkled.—(Parchment-like skin becomes soft.)
Cracks
Desquamation
Callosities come off
Pimples, vesicles, boils; red, elevated points; moist tetter
Very painful abscesses develop towards surface from deep in flesh, with long-continued suppuration
Itching: biting, burning; intolerable.
Sleep
Sleepiness
No desire to rise; weary, with sleep in morning
Sleep sound but not refreshing
Sleep disturbed by dreams.
Fever
Chills: from slightest air on the clothes or under bedcovers; while dressing after bath
Alternations of chill and heat
Orgasm of blood disturbing sleep
General heat of body with a hard stool
Sensation of burning heat over whole body
Constant sensation of heat with qualmishness
Burning heat of hands
Sweat: profuse, and urine; copious on a long walk, with itching; clammy, itching; trickles from head; on neck, with disappearance of the yellow spots; profuse on face, compels rubbing
Sweat on palms and soles, wrinkling of skin of hands as washerwoman's
The sweat on diseased parts colours linen brown.