The salt springs of Hall in Upper Austria, containing chlorides, iodides, bromides, and carbonates of the alkalies and alkaline earths and iron, but by far the largest ingredient is chloride of sodium. Dilutions.
Clinical
Breast, affection of. Exophthalmic goitre. Glands, enlarged. Goitre.
Characteristics
Provings have been made of this water, many of them on patients suffering from goitre. Great weakness and exhausting night-sweats were produced and all the symptoms of cold in the head and chest. Many marked symptoms appeared in the mammary gland. Three different provers experienced them. A number of symptoms occur after sleep and some of them wake the prover in the night. One prover had a sensation as if her stomach would fall out, and as if her breasts would fall off. In many cases the pains are transient and acute, and return after a short interval.
Relations.
*Compare: Natrum mur., silica marit., (stitches shooting out of nipple) Ol. an.
SYMPTOMS.
Mind
Confusion of the senses.
Head
Vertigo as if intoxicated. Headache, especially at first, sometimes increasing in severity and accompanied by vertigo, roaring in ears, sparks before eyes. Drawing tearing in vertex towards right temple. Transient, painful tearings in occiput.
Eyes
Heat, burning and violent watering of eyes, with feeling of catarrh in nose, as after smelling strong ammonia.
Ears
Great difficulty of hearing.
Nose
Frequent (violent) sneezing and feeling of commencing coryza.
Face
Painful swelling of the lymphatic gland, size of pigeon’s egg, right side of face close to ear.
Mouth
Accumulation of saliva.
Throat
Frequent hawking with expectoration of mucus. Burning and tickling, rawness as if tough mucus collected, difficult to loosen, with hoarseness, scraping. Swelling of one of cervical glands (in a prover who had never had a swollen gland in her life before), in anterior portion of neck between hyoid bone and thyroid cartilage, size of walnut, painless, easily movable, Goitre gradually disappeared.
Stomach
Regurgitation of bitter nauseous fluid from stomach. Acidity, like heartburn. Qualmish nausea: in evening, on going to bed, on awaking. Vomiting. Painful sensation of emptiness in stomach and hunger, although she had eaten much supper, the stomach felt painful and sick, as if it would fall out. Violent gnawing, like hunger, in stomach extending downward into intestines.
Abdomen
Cutting griping in abdomen, commencing near right side of navel, extending outward, then following course of colon to rectum, involving a large circle about navel, followed by rumbling as if for stool, lasting an hour and returning at short intervals. Transient painful sensation in right flank.
Stool and Anus
Thin, pasty evacuations, increasing to diarrhoea. Unusually hard, difficult stool.
Urinary Organs
Increased secretion of pale urine.
Female Sexual Organs
Menstruation unusually profuse at first, at the right time. Menstruation lasting only one day (usually there). Menstruation appeared without any pain (very remarkable, as she had always been subject to pain in abdomen therewith the cure was permanent).
Respiratory Organs
Hoarse, piping voice, scarcely audible. Cough in morning after rising. Dry cough in evening with catarrh, which became loose in morning. Cough hoarse, barking, very violent, dry, croupy or like the cough of laryngeal phthisis. Remarkable dyspnoea, with palpitation on ascending a slight elevation, followed by the appearance of menstruation.
Chest
Oppression of chest with difficult breathing. Frequent walking from sleep on account of sticking in right side of thorax. A transient stitch in sternum, above pit of stomach, wakes her from sleep at night. Two very violent stitches right side, just below right breast, during rest. Her breasts, which were usually firm and full, became small and flabby. Transient burning and sticking in left mamma. Itching-sticking and burning superficially in left nipple, temporarily better by rubbing, lasting 8 to 10 seconds, and returning after a short time. Frequent stitches beneath left breast. Frequent transient stitches (very violent at times) in both breasts, with extreme sensitiveness, pressure of linen or bedclothes unendurable, sensation as if an ulcer forming deep in the breast, worse by motion and touch, worse at night, often waking her from sleep (lasted three weeks, and disappeared with, the goitre). Violent stitches in substance of right breast, piercing the nipple from within outward, wakens her at night. Great painfulness and heaviness in both breasts, especially on touch and motion, both feeling as though they would fall off.
Heart
Palpitation. Pulse greatly accelerated.
Back
Pain like sprain, extending from right lumbar region, across right side of small of back into right ischium.
Limbs
Trembling of the limbs.
Upper Limbs
Unable to exert right arm without violent pain in axilla, where was found a gland, dark red, swollen, hot, very painful to touch, size of a walnut (it gathered and broke in five days). Drawing tearing pain in left humerus to elbow, lower end of left elbow as if in periosteum while sitting still, followed by some violent stitches just below left breast close to its margin.
Lower Limbs
Violent sticking as with needles in right heel (lasts a quarter of an hour, and return after short pause).
Skin
Boils: right eyebrow, right breast, left breast, back of right upper arm. Burning pains in skin of dorsal surface of left forearm on oblong spot with slight redness.
Sleep
Night restless, with many dreams, unpleasant.
