Gastein aqua

 The springs of Wildbad-Gastein, In Salzburg, Austria. Temperature of waters varies from 20 0 to 30 0 R. Analysis of 10, 000 parts by Redtenbacher shows: Sodium sulphate.2.085 Ferrum carbonate.0.005 сarbonic acid of the вi-Sodium chloride.0.428 Aluminium phosphate.0.007 carbonate 0.096 Silicic acid 0.496 сalcium fluoride, Free сarbonic acid, 0.309 Potassium sulphate.0.135 Strontium, Potassium carbonate, 0.195 Arsenicum, traces. Lithium chloride.0.027 Titanic acid, Magnesium carbonate, 0.017 Rubidium, сaesium, Loss 0.004 Total solid constituents, 3.399 The cure commences with a bath of a quarter of an hour, temperature 26 0 or 27 0 R., increasing the time by ten minutes daily up to one hour, and the temperature half a degree daily up to 29 0 or 30 0, then gradually returning to the first condition; while in the bath one usually drinks a glass or two of the waters.

 Lively play of fantasy. Vivid fantasies. Agreeable excitement during and after the first bath. Lively mood. сonversational.

 Eye.
 Bright look to the eyes. Sensation as though there were sand in the eye, followed by a burning soreness, redness of the conjunctiva of the lids, lachrymation, and agglutination in the morning. The lids suppurate and are agglutinated. Lachrymation in the open air.
 Ear.
 A small pustule forms in the left ear, with pressure and painfulness on touch (fourteenth day). Much heat in the ears, with roaring (fourteenth day). The ears feel stopped (seventeenth day). Pulsation in the ears on ascending steps (sixteenth day). Hearing. Re-echoing, on speaking loudly into the ear (seventeenth day). Rumbling and thundering in the ears. Singing and ringing in the ears increased (in the vapor). Sounds of bells and trumpets, so starting, that she thinks they are real, frequently recurring, even after twenty-one days.
 Nose.
 An indefinable, almost painful sensation high up in the nose, followed by a condition similar to vertigo. Sensation of constriction in the mucous membrane of the nose.
 Face.
 The expression becomes lively. The color of the face becomes fresh and clear. Feeling of swelling in the face, especially in the nose.

 Confusion and Vertigo. сonfusion of the head. сonfusion of heat, frequently dizzy (after some days). Vertigo, and rush of blood to the head. Vertigo, as if an attack of apoplexy would come on; great rush of blood to the head (feeling of general fullness), with suppressed pulse, a feeling of deafness, numbness, and paralyses of the left arm that had formerly been paralyzed by gouty and rheumatic pains in the shoulder and wrist. Slight vertigo. General Head. Heat in the head in the evening. Dizzy heaviness of the head, as after a night’s debauch, reeling forward; afterwards, pressure in the forehead, with nausea. Dull headache in the morning (eighteenth day). Rush of blood to the forehead. Pressure in the forehead, with nausea. Intolerable violent, pressive pains in the forehead. Drawing pains in the left temples (tenth day).

 Teeth. On biting the teeth together, they feel as if coated with mucus (after drinking the water). Slight drawing in the roots of some teeth (nineteenth day). The teeth, especially the carious ones, become sensitive and painful. Tongue. сoating of the tongue (secondary action). General Mouth. Dryness of the mouth and throat (eighth day). Sensation of dryness in the mouth in the afternoon (sixth day). Feeling of dryness, and slight contraction in the mouth. Saliva. Slimy saliva in the mouth (first day); better (fifth day); increased (tenth day). Great accumulation of water in the mouth after dinner (first and following day). Discharge of clear water from the mouth, more profuse than usual, and lasting a long time, mixed with some mucus (thirteenth day). ptysis of clear water, almost uninterruptedly, from morning till noon (sixth day). Much mucus in the mouth and fauces. Much spitting, and frequent eructations (seventh day). Taste. Somewhat bitter taste (thirteenth day). вitter taste, especially in the morning.
 Throat.
 Great dryness in the throat (thirteenth and twenty-third days).
 Voice. When reading the voice is very husky, with dryness of the throat (fifteenth day). Some hoarseness, in the evening (twenty-third day). Hoarseness, always after drinking the warm waters. Expectoration of thick grayish bronchial mucus. Expectoration again profuse, lasting nearly the whole day, constant, and in part frothy, mixed with mucus, with unpleasant dryness in the throat (twenty-first day).

 Abdomen.
 Objective. Movings and incarceration of flatulence. Flatulence (ninth day). Feeling of uncertainty in the abdomen (tenth day). Subjective. Heaviness in the abdomen, and dragging from above downward (ninth day). Most violent pain in the region of the cecum, almost causing faintness (in one case, from injection). Habitual colic and diarrhoea.
 Rectum and Anus.
 Bleeding hemorrhoids. Feeling of contraction in the rectum (local effect). Two violent stitches in the left side of the anus (ninth day).
 Stool.
 Diarrhoea, with sleeplessness and great weakness. Diarrhoea greenish and bloody (second and fourth days). Mucous, bilious stools. Stools like those of animals. Passage of gallstones. сonstipation. сonstipation (primary action). сonstipation (especially later). сonstipation, and moving of flatulence in the abdomen, with ineffectual desire in the rectum. Obstinate constipation. Stool harder (later). Very hard stool.

 Appetite. Appetite increased. Good appetite (later). Diminished hunger and thirst; even with great thirst one is unable to drink much. Appetite diminished (secondary). Little appetite, though previously hungry (first day). Loss of appetite, though he was able to eat. Thirst. Increased thirst. Much drinking, especially on the first day. Eructation. Frequent eructations (sixth day). сonstant eructations (ninth day). Many unpleasant eructations (twenty-fourth day). Rising from the stomach in the morning; was obliged to keep it down by swallowing; with loss of appetite, though usually he was obliged to eat very early. Nausea. Nausea and vomiting after a hearty supper (second day). Frequent nausea (twenty-second day). Inclination to vomit, but without result (sixth day). Stomach. Great distension of the stomach, with stupefying rush of blood to the forehead, as if too full, relieved by passing flatulence. Sensation of heaviness and pressure in the stomach. Gastralgia and water brash continuing two months. A feeling of contraction in the stomach. сramp in the stomach. Very slight, scarcely perceptible pressure in the stomach, at times eructations (first day). Increased pressure in the stomach, with constipation, succeeding rush of blood to the head. Slight oppression in the stomach (ninth day).

 Bladder. Evacuation of stones from the kidneys and bladder. Sensation of loss of power in the bladder (after six days). Urethra. Desire to urinate in the bath. Micturition. Increased secretion of urine. Frequent micturition. Much micturition (later days). Passage of much urine the whole day (sixth day). Excessive amount of watery, cloudy, odorless urine. Little urine with copious drinking (first day). Urine. Light, watery, odorless urine during the first day. Urine dark and depositing a sediment (thirty-fourth day). Urine turbid, thick, ammoniacal (later days). Urine frequently turbid, with purulent sediment. Urine depositing a mealy, white, sand like sediment. Red brick dust sediment to the urine. Slimy, purulent sediment in the urine.
 Sexual Organs.
 Male. The scrotum becomes drawn up. Increased sexual desire. Sexual desire at first increased disappears, and coition is not followed by a n emission. Emission (twenty-first day); on waking (tenth day). Female. Passage of fibrous membranous formations from the uterus. Menstruation which had been suppressed reappears. Menstruation two days shorter, and not half so copious as usual. Suppression of menstruation.

 Chest.
 Pressive pain in the region of the heart, in the evening (eleventh day). Oppression of the chest. Oppression of the chest (secondary). Pressive pains on the sternum, painful even to touch. The pectoral muscles are painful to the weight of the jacket.

 Pressive pain in the region of the heart, in the evening (eleventh day). Palpitation. Pulse becomes rapid but not full nor hard. Pulse more rapid, full, stronger (after a few hours). Pulse 125 after a bath, half an hour later it was 90. Pulse accelerated, during the first twenty minutes 15 beats; falling 5 beats after the bath, as for example, previous to the bath 95; in the bath 110 to 112; twenty minutes after the bath 106, to 104, at noon 100; at 1.30, 106; at 6 , 95; at midnight, 90. After a meal or on ascending a slight height the pulse is accelerated to 100, towards evening was 80 (third day). Pulse rises in the bath to 80; after the bath falls to 64 (second day). Pulse rises in the bath scarcely 4 beats (fifteenth day). Pulse 80, towards evening; 68 and intermittent (after vapor, eighth day). Pulse retarded from 80 to 66, weak and intermittent (third day after vapor). Pulse was slower after the bath, four beats below the normal (seventeenth day). Pulse becomes stronger. Febrile, full and hard pulse. Pulse weak (from the vapor, fifth day). Intermitting pulse (on inhalation of the vapor).

 Back.
 Some pain in the back (ninth day). Severe pain in the back, extending around the waist, so that he was unable to sit erect (twenty-seventh day). Dragging pain in the sacrum in all positions.
 Extremities in General.
 General weakness and heaviness of the limbs, with a sensation in the arms as if they were compressed by an iron hoop, or as if they were forcibly stretched. Lightness in all the limbs (second day). Heaviness in the limbs, with pain in p73 the back (twelfth day). Tightness in the limbs (fourth day). Drawing pain here and there in the limbs (fourth and sixth days).
 Superior Extremities.
 Paralyzed feeling, as if going to sleep, in the arms and hands, in the morning, in bed (eighth, ninth, tenth days). Feeling as though the arms were compressed with an iron band, or forcibly drawn out. Shoulder. Deep piercing stitches in the region of the shoulder and other joints. Sore pain in the shoulder-joints, especially the left, becoming a hard pressure on raising the arm. Forearm. Severe cramp like pain in the extensor muscles of the left forearm and hand (tenth day). Fingers. Feeling as of a splinter in the first phalanx of the ring finger (seventh day).
 Inferior Extremities.
 Rheumatic pains in the right limb (thirty-seventh day). Hip. Pains in the left hip, extending to the knee, most violent when rising, and making her scarcely able to walk without support (never had a trace of rheumatism), (twenty-ninth day); next day the pains became pains became again violent and chiefly seated in the hip and thigh; on the next day the pains were less and were confined to the left side, with a general sick feeling and some stiffness. Rheumatic pains in the hips, afterwards in the soles of the feet, with feeling of tension, even during rest, increased by walking. Leg. Very sensitive sticking and drawing in the right leg, for several minutes (seventh day). Foot. The soles of the feet becomes painful when stepping on them. A callous spot on the soles of the foot becomes painful (fourteenth day). Jerking sticking pain in the great toe (fourth day). A crumpled toe-nail becomes sensitive, but afterwards assumes its normal condition.

 Objective. Diminished secretions. Activity in all the veins, excitement of the circulation. No elasticity in the body (thirtieth day). General lassitude. Great weariness. Weakness (third and fourth days). Great weakness and weariness, with dragging sensation in the abdomen, as if it were too heavy. General exhaustion; inclination to sleep (after half an hour). Subjective. Takes cold very easily (caused and then cured). Very well feeling (first and fifth days). Sensation of mental and physical comfort; no exhaustion while bathing. An indescribable feeling of comfort ran through all the fibres during the bath. Pulsation in the body, especially in the arms, with jumping in them (fourth day). Aggravation before a storm or on the occurrence of the sirocco. Aggravation during the sirocco. Gradual cessation of all the pains in the bath).

 Skin.
 Objective. Skin becomes dry and red. Skin becomes soft and velvety. Old scars break out anew and foreign bodies are thrown out. Eruptions, Dry. Erythema, erysipelatous in inflammation of the skin. Purpura. Urticaria. Eruptions, Moist. Small, red or whitish-yellow pimples under the skin, without itching, rather painful. Furuncles. Violent itching of the skin, large furunculus, pustules leaving pock, especially on the legs, in the hollows of the knees; they ruptured and discharged a liquid partly yellowish, partly bloody. Pustules rapidly healing on the scalp, painful to touch. Some acne on the face, disappearing after some days. A persistent eruption similar to the itch on the exposed parts of those working in the hot baths. Subjective. The eruption burns and itches, especially after scratching. A contractive pain begins in the night in the scar of a scrofulous ulcer which healed several years ago. Pinching and griping in the skin, as if pinched with fine pincers (caused and cured). Old scars become sensitive. Sensation as if a blister were on the outer side of the right leg, which is painful, especially when touched, in the evening; on the next day pain as from a blow (twelfth day). Itching over the left eyebrow, which becomes a violent pain on slight rubbing or stroking.

 Sleepiness. Much yawning (eighth and tenth day). Frequent inclination to sleep. Inclination to sleep (half an hour after a bath). Heavy, unrefreshing sleep (fourth day). Sleeplessness. Sleep disturbed by uneasiness and vivid dreams. Sleep after midnight is uneasy; awoke early (first day). Excessively uneasy sleep, so that he falls out of bed (twenty-first day). Early waking. Dreams. Sleep towards morning full of dreams (fourth day). сonfused dreams towards morning (fourth day). Dreams of sexual excitement.

 Chilliness. Slight shivering followed by flushes of heat. Slight creeping chills over the back (after half an hour). Heat. Warmth and turgescence are increased. A pleasant pricking sensation of warmth (after the bath). Heat in the bed instead of the usual coldness, fever usually lasted one or two days, seldom during the whole course. The fever is usually repeated in two or three periods, even after the cessation of the baths. Feverish sensations (third and fourth days). More or less febrile excitement. Febrile excitement during the sirocco. Three periods of excitement of the vascular system were noticed; the first, in the first twenty minutes of the bath, lasting two or three hours; the second at the commencement of digestion, lasting two or three hours; the second at the commencement of digestion, lasting three or four hours after eating; and the third, only sometimes from 2 to 3 p.m Increased, anxious orgasm of blood. Sweat. сopious perspiration. Perspiration of a pungent odor, clammy, acid, staining the linen red (staining it yellow in patients). Perspiration is seldom general.

 (Morning), Headache; bitter taste; rising from stomach; in bed, feeling in arms, etc. Forenoon), ptysis of water. Afternoon), Dryness in mouth. Evening), Heat in head; hoarseness. On ascending steps), Pulsation in ears. After dinner), Accumulation of water in mouth. Stormy weather), The symptoms. Walking), Pains in hips.

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