Franzensbad

The alkaline-saline springs of Franzensbad, near Eger, in Bohemia. (Franzens-quelle, Salz-quelle, Wiesen-quelle.)

Analysis of sixteen onces.

F (Berzelius.)

S (Berzelius.)

W (Zembsch.).

Sodium sulphate, Sodium chloride, Sodium carbonate, Lithium carbonate, Magnesium carbonate, Calcium carbonate, Ferrum carbonate, Manganum carbonate, Ferrum, Calcium phosphate, Aluminium, Silicic acid, Grains 24.50 9.23 5.18 0.03 0.67 1.80 0.23 0.04 0.00 0.02 0.01 0.47

Grains 21.52 8.76 5.20 0.02 0.79 1.41 0.07 0.01 0.00 0.02 0.00 0.49

Grains 25.65 9.32 8.97 0.02 0.61 1.37 0.13 0.02 0.04 0.02 0.00 0.47

Total solid materials, 42.18 38.29 46.62 Carbonic acid, Sylphuretted hydrogen, Temperature, 40.85 0.00 10.5° C.

26.88 0.00 10.12° C.

30.69 0.16 10.94° C.

Authority.

Dr. Watzke, Oest. Zeit. f. Hom., 3, 597, provings of each spring with 1/2 to 1 pint doses, repeated, for the most part, daily, F. Franzens-quelle, S. Salz-quelle, W. Wiesen-quelle.

MIND

• Great ill-humor,

[F], [S]

• Disinclination to mental exertion in the evening,

[S]

HEAD

• Contractive pain in the whole of the forehead,

[F]

• Stitches at times in both temples,

[W]

• Pressure on one place on the vertex (immediately),

[F]

• The occiput near the vertex felt warm to the touch,

[W]

• Sensitiveness of the whole head and eyeball, aggravated neither by stooping nor shaking the head, walking nor riding, but by reflecting upon any subject for a long time,

[W]

EYE

• Sensation of great dryness and hardness of the lids,

[W]

NOSE

• Fluent coryza in the morning after rising, with constant tickling in the left nostril, lachrymation of the left eye, and frequent sneezing (third day),

[F]

MOUTH. [10.]

• Tongue coated white,

[F]

• Remarkable dryness of the palate and throat,

[F]

• An earthy or burnt taste in the mouth,

[F]

THROAT

• Sensation of constriction in the throat, which only disappeared after supper (first day),

[S]

• Constrictive sensation in the throat, with nausea,

[F]

• Scraping sensation in the throat,

[S]

STOMACH

• Appetite diminished,

[W]

• Constantly diminishing appetite (fourth day),

[F]

• Eructations of air,

[S]

• Repeated, empty, violent eructations (soon), (first day),

[S]. [20.]

• Pressure in the stomach, several times during the forenoon,

[F]

ABDOMEN

• Umbilical.
• Sensitive aching in the umbilical region, near the walls of the abdomen, for several minutes, at one time lasting nearly a quarter of an hour, frequently repeated, caused or aggravated by motion, relieved by sitting and bending together,

[S]

• General Abdomen.
• Distension of the abdomen (first day),

[S]

• Gurgling in the bowels,

[S]

• Painless rumbling and moving in the abdomen after a very moderate dinner (first day),

[S]

• Slight griping in the abdomen, followed, after half an hour, by diarrhœic, somewhat profuse stool,

[S]

• Griping frequently repeated, at times stitches in the region of the gall-bladder,

[F]

• A peculiar aching in the abdomen, especially in the region of the pit of the stomach,

[F]

• Colic, with here and there slight pains near the abdominal walls, with oppression of the chest and transient anxiety, in the afternoon,

[F]

• Jerking pain in the abdomen,

[S]. [30.]

• A sensitiveness and distension of the abdomen, only disappearing at night, after the emission of some flatulence,

[F]

• The sensitiveness of the abdomen was especially severe on descending a height, and was not relieved by micturition,

[F]

• The pain in the abdomen was only relieved on getting warm in bed, and rubbing the abdomen with the hand,

[F]

• Increased sensitiveness of the abdomen (at 3 P.M.), scarcely aggravated by touch, but increased by walking, without pains in the bowels, eructation, oppression of the stomach, or flatulence,

[F]

• Hypogastrium and Iliac Regions.
• Distension and sensitiveness of the lower abdomen the whole afternoon, feeling as if in the bladder,

[F]

• Almost constant sensation as though diarrhœa would occur, together with great exhaustion,

[F]

• Some stitches in the lower abdomen,

[S]

• Sensitiveness of the hypogastric region,

[S], [W]

• Sensitiveness of the lower abdomen (especially on motion), which afterwards extends over the whole abdomen and is aggravated by strong pressure, towards noon,

[F]

• Slight sensitiveness of the lower abdomen at times (second day),

[S]. [40.]

• Slight sensitiveness of the lower abdomen, especially near the parietes,

[W]

• Painful drawing in the groin on micturition, lasting some time afterwards,

[F]

RECTUM AND ANUS

• A contractive at times, jerking pain in the anus nearly the whole forenoon,

[S]

• Constant empty urging to stool,

[F]

• Violent urgent desire for stool, followed by liquid, rather copious evacuation after half an hour,

[F]

STOOL

• Diarrhœa.
• A scanty diarrhœic evacuation of the bowels, repeated after half an hour, in the morning (second day),

[S]

• Two evacuations of the bowels in quick succession in the morning, once a very small, brown, half liquid stool,

[F]

• Semifluid evacuation of the bowels following urgent desire, with much straining, and followed by aching sensation in the lower abdomen, with continued urging for a second stool, which also followed after half an hour, with the same result,

[S]

• Scanty semifluid evacuation of the bowels after eating, neither preceded nor followed by pain,

[W]

• A liquid stool follows a scarcely noticed pain in the abdomen, the evacuation always very scanty; the first two days slimy brown, on the last days of the proving it became watery, almost colorless and odorless, accompanied by twinging pain in the anus, which lasted several minutes after the stool,

[F]. [50.]

• A scanty, almost watery stool, without relief, after dinner,

[F]

• A scanty, burning, slimy evacuation (one hour after a quart),

[F] ; (second day),

[S]

• Constipation.
• Constipation (from pint doses),

[F]

URINARY ORGANS

• Urethra.
• Distressing (slow) drawing through the whole urethra, lasting a quarter of an hour,

[S]

• Violent stitches in the orifice of the urethra,

[W]

• Violent stitches in the orifice of the urethra, followed by an unpleasant itching,

[F]

• Itching in the orifice of the urethra, continuing a long time,

[S]

• Micturition.
• Frequent micturition,

[F]

• Frequent micturition (the amount of urine seems to be increased),

[S]

SEXUAL ORGANS

• Erection, without sexual desire,

[W]. [60.]

• Sensitiveness, at times, painful drawing in the penis,

[S]

• The pain in the penis frequently returns; it is apparently seated in the mucous membrane of the urethra,

[S]

• Violent tickling in the prepuce and glans penis,

[S]

• Violent itching of the glans penis,

[W]

• Diminished inclination for coition,

[W]

• No sexual desire,

[F]

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

• Voice.
• Voice rough and deep,

[F]

• Hoarseness,

[F]

• Dry hacking cough,

[S]

• Dry tickling cough, frequently repeated, for several hours, caused by tickling in the soft palate,

[S]. [70.]

• (Cough, with some expectoration of mucus, several times in the night and in the morning),

[S]

• Loose cough in the morning, with expectoration of thick yellow mucus, repeated a few times,

[S]

CHEST

• Continued, rather painful sensation of constriction in the right chest, more externally, in the region of the nipple, towards evening,

[F]

• Sensitiveness, at times, increasing to a sore pain on the anterior portion of the external chest, worse in the middle of the sternum,

[S]

• External painfulness of the chest, as if in the muscles, extending to the left upper arm,

[F]

BACK

• Pains in the back and loins (a disagreeable sensation of heaviness and pressure), severe and lasting a long time, only relieved after rising; towards morning, while lying in bed (second day),

[S]

• Dorsal.
• Pinching pain in the back beneath the right scapula,

[F]

• Lumbar.
• An acute pressive-tensive pain in the left lumbar region, aggravated by motion, for a long time in the morning, in bed (second day),

[F]

• Dull tensive pain in the lumbar region, especially in the morning in bed, chiefly noticed on turning to one side, but scarcely aggravated by pressure,

[F]

• Feeling of heaviness in the small of the back, alike when sitting and when standing,

[F]

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES. [80.]

• (Stitches in the shoulder),

[S]

• (Drawing pains in the elbows),

[S]

• Violent stitches in the elbows,

[S]

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Drawing in the anterior portion of the right leg,

[S]

• Unusual weariness of the feet, especially on going upstairs,

[F]

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

• Physical inertia,

[S]

• Unusual weariness after a moderate walk,

[S], [W]

• Unusual sensation of weakness (first and fourth days),

[F]

• Increased sensitiveness to cold,

[F]

• Great exhaustion, with unusual mental and physical inertia (first day),

[S]

SKIN. [90.]

• (Itching here and there in the skin),

[S]

• Sticking-itching in various places on the body, especially on the inner side of the thigh and on the pubic region,

[S]

• Sensation of contraction of the skin of the forehead between the eyebrows,

[W]

• (Itching in one spot on the scrotum),

[S]

• Itching of the skin of the thigh and genitals,

[S]

• Itching on the forepart of the right thigh,

[W]

• Itching, very acute, on the back of the right hand, and on the anterior surface of the right thigh, in a spot as large as the hand,

[W]

SLEEP AND DREAMS

• Restless sleep at night; one night, being awakened after midnight, I could not fall asleep again for several hours,

[F]

• Sleep at night restless and full of dreams,

[W]

• Night very restless and full of dreams, which could not be easily remembered on waking (first night),

[S]. [100.]

• Frequent waking at night, with very vivid dreams,

[F]

• Unusually vivid and remembered dreams at night,

[F]

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Morning ), After rising, coryza, etc.; cough in bed, on turning to one side, pain in lumbar region.
• ( Afternoon ), Colic, etc.
• ( Evening ), Disinclination to mental exertion.
• ( Night ), Towards morning, while lying in bed, pains in back, etc.
• ( Ascending stairs ), Weariness of feet.
• ( Descending height ), Sensitiveness of abdomen.
• ( Motion ), Aching in umbilical region; pain in lumbar region.
• ( Strong pressure ), Sensitiveness of lower abdomen.
• ( Prolonged reflection ), Sensitiveness of head, etc.
• ( Walking ), Sensitiveness of abdomen.
• Amelioration.
• ( Sitting and bending together ), Aching in umbilical region.
• ( Warmth in bed and rubbing abdomen with hand ), Sensitiveness of abdomen.