Narzan

A mineral spring at Kiszlawodsk in the Russian Caucasus.

Temperature 57° (F.), spec. gr. 1003.

Analysis by Herrman, in 16 ounces.

grains Calcium Carbonate, Sodium Sulphate, Magnesium Chloride, Magnesium Sulphate, Magnesium Carbonate, Potassium Sulphate, Silica, Aluminium Phosphate, Ferrum Carbonate, Manganum Carbonate, 8.41728 4.41446 1.98120 0.71268 0.31104 0.09216 0.11673 0.00161 0.02688 0.04915 16.12619

Cub. in.

Free Carbonic Acid, Nitrogen, Oxygen, 5.036 0.008 0.002

The most marked effects of the water are the greatly excited activity of the kidneys, and the penetrating ammoniacal odor of the urine.

Authorities.

1 , Dr. Peterson, A. H. Z., 61, effects of two glasses of the water first day, six glasses second day; 2 , effects of bathing in the water.

MIND

• Lively mood (third day), 1.
• Pleasant, lively mood, 2.
• A kind of intoxication (second day), 1.
• Complete apathy, 2.

HEAD

• Vertigo at 10 A.M., 2.
• Pain in the whole head (fourth day), 1.
• Unusual heat on the vertex for a short time in the afternoon (third day), 1.

NOSE

• Sneezing (second day), 1.

MOUTH

• Flow of saliva (fourth day), 1. [10.]
• Bad taste in the mouth, in the morning (fourth day), 1.

THROAT

• Constant sensation of dryness in the throat (second day); desire to drink water, but the dryness in the throat during sleep, that woke him and obliged him to rise, after eating (second day), 1.

STOMACH

• Increase of appetite, 2.
• Desire for salt food (fifth day), 1.
• Loss of appetite (fourth day), 1.
• Aversion to the usual food (third day), 1.
• Appetite for smoking disappears (second day), 1.
• Eructations (third day), 1.
• Heartburn, with A feeling of disordered stomach (fourth day), 1. [20.]
• Pain in the stomach during the night, associated in the morning with pain in the back, 2.
• Slight pressure in the stomach (second day), 1.

ABDOMEN

• Extraordinary flatulence after partaking of bread and acid drink (fifth day), 1.

STOOL

• Two normal evacuations during the day, 2.
• Urging to stool, with slight pain in the stomach, as in diarrhœa, with a normal evacuation preceded by some stitches in the abdomen (fourth day), 1.
• The fauces contain more bile than usual (after six days), 1.

URINARY ORGANS

• Urging to urinate (second day), 1.

SEXUAL ORGANS

• (Contraction of the penis, phimosis, in the water), 2.
• Pain in the spermatic cord, 2.

BACK

• Pain in the back on coughing, 2. [30.]
• Pain in the back on moving about, 2.
• Pain, as from a sprain, in the small of the back, 2.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Felling of weariness in the feet, as after a long walk, 2.
• Bruised pain in the feet, 2.
• Sensitiveness of the heels (second day)

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

• Weariness, 2.
• General sick feeling (second day), 1.

SKIN

• Biting and corroding sensation on the glans penis and on the scrotum, feeling almost intolerable, 2.

SLEEP

• Sleepiness (second day), 1.
• Restless sleep, caused by the trouble in the throat (third day), 1.

FEVER. [40.]

• Feeling of warmth over the body, especially on the parts that have been long in the water, 2.
• The feet, held for a long time in the water, seemed warmer than usual, in the afternoon, 2.
• Inclination to perspire (second day), 1.