BONDONNEAU.

Bondonneau Mineral Water. (Saintes-fontaines).

Chemical Analysis.

In one litre, there was contained: Free Sulphuric Acid, a trace, but it is very perceptible at the spring.

Free Carbonic-acid, 2/3 the volume of water.

Bicarbonate of [Lime, Magnesia] 0.390 grammes.

Bicarbonate of Soda, 0.006 grammes.

Potash, salts, a trace.

Sulphates (probably anhydrous) of [Soda, Lime, Magnesia] 0.043 grammes.

Chloride of Sodium, 0.030.

Alkaline, Iodides and Bromides, 0.008.

Arseniates, a trace.

Sesquioxide of Iron with Manganese, 0.002.

Silica and Alumina, 0.128.

Earthy Phosphates, a trace.

Nitrogenized organic matters, an uncertain amount.

Authority.

Dr. Espanet, Journ. de la Soc. Gallicane, 2d Series, vol. 4, p. 65.

MIND

• Gloomy thoughts; painful anxiety.
• Irritability, bad humor (from the first).

HEAD

• Slight vertigo, sometimes followed by obnubilation (during the first days).
• Dulness, heaviness and uneasiness in the head, with bad humor.
• Compressive headache (continuing after leaving off the water).
• The head seems too full, with internal pulsation at the base of the brain, nearly all the time in the evening.
• Throbbing in the head, with pricking in the throat.
• On moving the head, bruised pain internally, with vertigo (at the beginning).
• Feeling of constriction at the forehead, with irascibility. [10.]
• Swelling of the temporal veins and of the hands, with throbbing, but without redness (after fifteen days).
• Slight lancinating pain, with heat, at the temples.
• Drawing and itching in the hairy scalp.

EYES

• Lancinations in the orbits and in the head, with evening chilliness.
• Red, painless swelling of the puncta lachrymalia (in an old man).
• A succession of sties for a month after leaving off the water.
• The lids feel swollen and tense, especially in the morning.
• Drawing in the eyelids from time to time; they are opened with difficulty during the first fortnight.
• Itching of the lids and sensitiveness of the eyes to light (after one month).
• Yellow tinge of the albuginea, with paleness of the conjunctiva and of the mucous membrane of the palate and lips (after five weeks). [20.]
• Redness of the conjunctiva, without pain (after three weeks).
• The eyeball feels as if compressed, during the first week.
• Sparks before the eyes (during the first fortnight, in a patient laboring under hepatic obstruction).

EARS

• Increased discharge of a clearer mucus (after three weeks).
• Dryness with heat in the ears (in the beginning).
• Heat and throbbing in the ears (at the beginning).
• Sensation of fulness in the ears, with deafness.

NOSE

• In the morning, several times, a slight discharge of black blood from the nose (after fifteen days).
• Chronic stoppage of the nose, in a gouty subject.
• Repeated, short-lasting stoppage of the nose. [30.]
• Dryness of the nose, with pricking.
• Throbbing at the root of the nose, with redness of the nose (after two weeks).

FACE

• Paleness and varying color of the face, towards evening.
• Chapping of the lips, as from winter weather (just before leaving off the water).

MOUTH

• Discolored and denuded teeth, with small ulcers on the gums.
• Grinding of the teeth at night (at the close of the season).
• Several molar teeth feel too long, and are painful every night.
• Tongue pointed, yellow, with bright-red tip.
• Tongue coated white, with red papillæ.
• Clammy mouth, with sour taste (at the last). [40.]
• Dry mouth without thirst (unusual).
• Sensation of heat and swelling in the mouth (after a repetition of the water).
• Abundant saliva (after one month).

THROAT

• The bottom of the throat is bright-red.
• Dryness of the throat.
• Heat with pricking and lancinations in the tonsils (the first days).
• Uneasy feeling, as if from congestion of the tonsils (after three weeks).

STOMACH

• Great and continual hunger (while taking the waters, and afterwards).
• Thirst during the first days; afterwards, entire absence of thirst.
• Insipid, mucous eructations, after taking the water. [50.]
• Epigastric swelling, with habitual heat.
• Liquid gurgling in the stomach when lying down in the evening (at the last).
• Burning heat, with uneasiness at the stomach after a meal (after two weeks).
• Painful heat at the epigastrium, as from flatulence. It shifts about, often becoming seated at the hypochondria, towards the last.
• Sensation of fulness, which takes away the appetite (at first).
• The epigastrium and hypochondria are sensitive to touch, after the first week.

ABDOMEN

• Inflation of the abdomen.
• Sensation of heaviness in the abdomen.
• Tension and heat of the abdomen (towards the last).
• Colic, followed by a diarrhœic stool, with tenesmus, after the first days. [60.]
• Lancinating pains here and there in the abdomen.

RECTUM AND ANUS

• Protrusion of the anus, after every stool, in a child troubled with worms. In a week, this symptom disappeared permanently.
• Heat and pricking at the anus (after one month).
• Itching at the anus (after fifteen days).
• Profuse sweat of the perineum (after the season).

STOOL

• Towards the last, the evacuations become easier and more regular.
• Watery and mucous stools (in the beginning).
• Stools yellow, afterwards green (in a patient who had had jaundice).
• Hard, curled, dark-green evacuations (after one month).
• In the beginning, difficult stools at long intervals (in a cachectic patient, previously dyspeptic).

URINARY ORGANS. [70.]

• A former discharge from the urethra reappears at the end of the season.
• Pricking in the urethra.
• Frequent and abundant discharge of urine, which becomes turbid after passing.
• The urine is very abundant and clear (in the beginning).
• In the beginning, reddish urine, having a strong odor.

SEXUAL ORGANS

• Mucous discharge from the prepuce, with itching.
• More frequent erections in the morning.
• Dry heat of the vagina (in the first fortnight).
• Mucous or serous discharge (after three weeks).
• The menses appear for the first time (after three weeks). [80.]
• Regular return of the menses after a five months' suppression.
• Menses too early (in a very lymphatic young woman).
• The menses, usually regular, are retarded for one week (after fifteen days).

RESPIRATORY APPARATUS

• Constant snorting, as if there was a foreign body in the larynx.
• In the beginning, irritation and dry cough, with headache.
• From time to time, short-lasting hoarseness (towards the end).
• Slight dry cough (in a patient with gastritis).
• Blood-streaked expectoration (in chronic bronchitis).

CHEST

• Paroxysm of spasmodic oppression, with hiccough.
• Habitual oppression, with sensation of heat under the sternum, after the first days. [90.]
• Sensation of heat, fulness and oppression of the chest (towards the last).
• Stitchlike pain in the right lower portion of the chest.

HEART

• Palpitation, the first days.
• Tumultuous action of the heart after a meal (after three weeks).
• Sense of tension and fulness at the region of the heart (after one month).

NECK AND BACK

• Drawing and stiffness in the cervical muscles.
• Slight pain in the back, shifting about rapidly.
• Pains in the kidneys, extending towards the bladder, after every meal.
• Slight lancinations, with heat, in the region of the kidneys (after one month).
• Compressive pain in the loins (at the last).

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL. [100.]

• The veins on the limbs are more prominent (after the season).
• Heaviness of the limbs, with difficulty in moving them (after the season).
• Nervous tension and greater agility in the limbs (after one week).

UPPER EXTREMITIES

• Extreme sensitiveness, with scarcely any swelling, of the axillary glands.
• A previous induration of a mammary gland continues.
• Constant heat in the palms of the hands.
• Stiffness and sensitiveness of the finger-joints.

LOWER EXTREMITIES

• Dull and deepseated pain in the inside of the thighs (at the last).
• Pains, when in bed, in the long bones of the lower extremities.

GENERALITIES

• Increased sensitiveness of the whole cutaneous surface (in the first fortnight).
• Cachexia, the results of antisyphilitic and febrifuge treatment. [110.]
• Convalescences which left the patients in a confirmed cachectic condition.
• Various symptoms of former syphilis.

SKIN

• Mottled skin, as in cold weather.
• Sensitive, colorless pimples, like tubercles, appear in succession, on the scalp, for several days (after six weeks).
• Eruption, here and there, of large, red and very sensitive pimples (after the first week).
• Small, red, acuminated pimples on the face (after six weeks).
• A very itching kind of eruption, like nettle-rash, appears, on the same patient, every time after leaving off the water.
• General eruption of furfuraceous blotches (after the fifth day and fifth bath, and lasting until a week after leaving off the water).
• A furfuraceous tetter on the nose extends to the external ear, and causes a discharge from the fold of the latter, which disappears with the eruption, in fifteen days, and after taking the water for six weeks.
• Eruption of very painful boils, which succeed each other for five weeks. [120.]
• Ulcers cease suppurating while taking the waters and for a long while after, with general improvement of the health.
• A profusely suppurating fistulous ulcer on the tibia leaves off suppurating.
• General itching, especially troublesome over the more muscular portions of the limbs.
• Itching of the wings of the nose and of the eyes followed by redness and very small pimples (after one month).

SLEEP AND DREAMS

• Frequent yawning with shivering (after fifteen days).
• Drowsiness in daytime (after four weeks).
• Light sleep, frequently interrupted (unusual).
• Habitual sleeplessness, with starting when on the point of falling asleep.
• Dreams which interrupt sleep (in the beginning).

FEVER

• Shivering all over the body (at the beginning). [130.]
• Internal heat, with flushes of heat in the chest (after the season).
• Sensation of external cold, with transient shivering followed by heat and by pricking on the skin.
• Easy sweat (from the beginning).
• The least exertion brings on a profuse sweat (at the last).

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Morning ), Eyelids feel swollen, etc.; bleeding at the nose; more frequent erections.
• ( Towards evening ), Paleness, etc.
• ( Evening ), Head feels too full; chilliness; when lying down, gurgling in stomach.
• ( Night ), Teeth feel too long, etc.
• ( After a meal ), Burning heat at stomach; tumultuous action of heart; pains in kidneys.