Hall

The salt springs of Hall in Upper Austria; containing iodides and bromides; specific gravity 1.0108; temperature 9° R.

Analysis of 10,000 grammes.

By Netwald.

By Kauer.

Sodium chloride, Sodium iodide, Potassium chloride, Calcium chloride, Calcium carbonate, Calcium phosphate, Magnesium chloride, Magnesium iodide, Magnesium bromide, Magnesium carbonate, Ferrum carbonate, Aluminium silicate, Alumina, Silica, Organic matter, 14.890 0.079 0.065 3.819 0.626 0.034 3.414 0.371 0.674 0.315 0.114 0.038 0.000 0.095 0.026 121.700 0.000 0.397 4.009 0.000 0.000 2.426 0.426 0.584 0.000 0.044 0.000 0.147 0.249 0.000

Solid constituents, Free carbonic acid, 155.603 1.401 130.715 4.366 (One volume of water contains 0.22 volume of carbonic acid in solution.)

Authorities.

1 to 3 , provings by females suffering from goitre, daily doses of 2 to 8 spoonfuls for several weeks, Dr. Huber, Oest. Zeit. f. Hom., 2, 526; 4 , Dr. Haller, Oest. Med. Jahrb., xvi, 525, effects on patients (mostly suffering from goitre), from Hygea, 11, 500.

MIND

• Confusion of the senses, 4.

HEAD

• Vertigo, as if intoxicated (twenty-fifth day), 2.
• Pain in the head, 4.
• Headache, especially at first, sometimes increasing in severity and accompanied by vertigo, roaring in the ears, sparks before the eyes, etc., 4.
• Drawing tearing in the vertex towards the right temporal region (after half an hour), 2.
• Transient, painful tearings in the occiput (sixteenth day), 2.

EYE

• Heat, burning, and violent watering of the eyes, with feeling of catarrh in the nose, as though she had smelled

Ammonium causticum (after half an hour, fifth day), 1.

EAR

• Great difficulty of hearing (tenth day), 3.

NOSE

• Frequent sneezing and feeling of commencing coryza (second day), 1. [10.]
• Frequent, violent sneezing (after half an hour, eleventh day), 1.

FACE

• Painful swelling of the lymphatic gland, as large as a pigeon's egg, on the right side of the face, close to the ear (twenty-eighth day), 2.

MOUTH

• Accumulation of saliva, 4.

THROAT

• Hawking, with expectoration of mucus, 4.
• Frequent hawking (twenty-fifth day), 2.
• Burning and tickling in the throat, 4.
• Rawness within the throat, obliging frequent hawking, as if tough mucus collected there which was difficult to loosen, with hoarseness (third day), 12.
• Scraping sensation within the throat (pharynx and larynx), as from acrid, rancid fat (twenty-fifth day), 2.
• Scraping sensation in the throat, like rawness, with hoarseness, frequent hawking and spitting, the whole day (second day), 3.
• Swelling of one of the cervical glands (very remarkable, since, in her whole life, she had never suffered from her glands); examination showed on the anterior portion of the neck, between the hyoid bone and thyroid cartilage, a swelling of the lymphatic gland as large as a walnut, which was painless and easily movable (after sixteen days), 3. [20.]
• (The goitre entirely disappeared), 1.
• (The goitre gradually disappeared after three weeks), 2.
• Tensive sensation in the goitre (fifteenth day), 2.

STOMACH

• Eructation.
• Regurgitation of bitter, nauseous fluid from the stomach (eighth day), 2.
• Acidity in the stomach, like heartburn (after one hour), 3.
• Nausea and Vomiting.
• Qualmish nausea in the evening (first day), 3.
• Qualmish nausea in the stomach on going to bed (first day), 2.
• Awoke from sleep with qualmish nausea in the stomach (first day), 1.
• Vomiting, 4.
• Stomach.
• Painful sensation in the stomach, as of emptiness and hunger, although she had eaten much supper (one hour after 4 spoonfuls); the stomach felt painful and sick, as if it would fall out (fifteenth day), 1. [30.]
• Violent gnawing pain in the stomach, extending downward into the intestines, like a very acute sensation of hunger (eleventh day), 2.

ABDOMEN

• Cutting griping in the abdomen, commencing near the right side of the navel, extending outward, then following the course of the colon to the rectum, involving a large circle about the navel, followed by rumbling in the abdomen, as if for stool, lasting a quarter of an hour, and returning at short intervals (third day), 1.
• Transient painful sensation in the right flank, 1.

STOOL

• Thin, pasty evacuations, increasing to violent diarrhœa, 4.
• Unusually hard, difficult stool (sixth day), 1.

URINARY ORGANS

• Increased secretion of pale urine (sometimes showing a trace of Iodine), 4.

SEXUAL ORGANS

• Menstruation unusually profuse at first, at the right time, 1.
• Menstruation lasting only one day (usually lasting three days), 2.
• Menstruation appeared without any pain (this was very remarkable, since she had always been subject to pains in the abdomen therewith; this curative action was permanent), 3.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

• Voice.
• Hoarseness (third day), 2. [40.]
• Hoarse, piping voice, scarcely audible (twenty-fifth day), 2.
• Cough.
• Cough, 4.
• Cough in the morning after rising (second day), 2.
• Dry cough in the evening, with catarrh, which became loose in the morning (after a few days), 3.
• Cough, hoarse barking, very violent, dry (the tone of the voice and the hoarseness associated with it remind one of a croupy cough and the cough of consumption, where there are tuberculous ulcers or erosion of the larynx), (twenty-fifth day), 2.
• Respiration.
• Remarkable dyspnœa, with palpitation on ascending a slight elevation, followed by the appearance of menstruation (twelfth day), 2.

CHEST

• Oppression of the chest, with difficult breathing (after a few days), 3.
• Frequent waking from sleep on account of sticking in the right side of the thorax (third night), 1.
• A transient stitch in the sternum, above the pit of the stomach, wakes her from sleep at night (sixteenth night), 1.
• Two very violent stitches in the right side, just below the right breast, during rest (eighteenth day), 2.
• Mammæ. [50.]
• Her breasts, which were usually firm and full, became small and flabby (tenth day), 3.
• Transient burning and sticking in the left mamma (third day), 1.
• Itching-sticking burning superficially in the left nipple, temporarily relieved by rubbing, lasting eight or ten seconds, and returning after a short time (after half an hour), 1.
• Some stitches in the cartilaginous portion of the left nipple (twelfth day), 1.
• Frequent stitches beneath the left breast (fifteenth day), 1.
• Frequent transient stitches, at times excessively violent, in both breasts, with such painful sensitiveness that she could scarcely endure the pressure of her linen or of the bed covering; it seemed as though an angry ulcer was forming deep in the substance of the breast; motion and touch aggravated it; this trouble lasted three weeks, was most violent at night, frequently waking her from sleep; it gradually disappeared with the goitre (thirty-fifth day), 2.
• Violent stitches in the substance of the right breast, piercing the nipple from within outward, waking from sleep at night (eleventh night), 1.
• Great painfulness and heaviness in both breasts, especially on touch and motion, with feeling as though they would fall off (sixteenth day), 1.

HEART AND PULSE

• Palpitation, 4.
• Pulse greatly accelerated, 4.

BACK. [60.]

• Pain like a sprain, extending from the right lumbar region across the right side of the small of the back down into the right ischium (seventeenth day), 2.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL

• Trembling of the limbs, 4.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

• She was unable to exert the right arm without violent pain in the axilla; on examination, there was found a dark-red, swollen, hot, lymphatic gland, extremely painful to touch, as large as a walnut; after five days of pain it gathered and broke (after thirty days), 3.
• Drawing-tearing pain in the left humerus, extending into the elbow, recurring several times (eighteenth day), 2.
• Drawing pain in the lower end of the left elbow, as if in the bone or periosteum, while sitting still, followed by some violent stitches just below the left breast, close to its margin (thirteenth day), 1.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Violent sticking, as with needles, in the right heel, lasting a quarter of an hour, and returning after a short pause (fifth day), 1.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

• Great weakness, 4.

SKIN

• Objective.
• A furuncle as large as a hazel-nut in the right eyebrow near the inner canthus, with burning pain when touched, without much redness; this maturated the next day and disappeared after four days (twenty-seventh day), 2.
• Very small furuncles on the right breast, soon healing (first few days), 3.
• A bluish-red furuncular pimple on the left breast, just below the nipple, as large as a hazel-nut, with a black point at the tip (tenth day), 3. [70.]
• A small painful furuncle on the posterior surface of the right upper arm, showing some matter at the tip, and afterwards drying up to a black point, disappearing after some days (twenty-sixth day), 2.
• Burning pain in the skin on the dorsal surface of the left forearm, affecting an oblong spot, with slight redness, lasting several minutes (fifth day), 1.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

• Many dreams at night (fourth night), 1.
• Night restless, with many dreams (seventeenth night), 1.
• Numerous unpleasant dreams (second day), 2.

FEVER

• Exhausting night-sweats, 4.