Wiesbaden Aqua

The hot, chlorinated saline springs of Wiesbaden (Fontes Mattiaci of Pliny)

• ▸contain 8.
• ▸176 grammes of solids to each litre, and of these Nat.
• ▸mur.
• ▸makes up more than seven

grammes. The baths, which constitute the chief part of the treatment, are extremely excitant. The

baths, combined with drinking the water, generally determine at the commencement of the cure

certain phenomena of saturation which disappear on temporary suspension of the treatment. The

most common of these is a saburral state of the stomach, and a feeling of fulness and tension in

the whole abdomen. Gout and rheumatism are the chief affections for which Wiesbaden is

sought. Passive or atonic gout is the only kind for which Wiesb. is suited, and these cases usually

pass through a period of aggravation before improvement sets in. Torpid and nodous rheumatism

are benefited, the douche being employed as well as the bath. Paralysis.; muscular and tendinous

contractions; sprains; in complete anchyloses; stiffness from old fractures; gunshot wounds

which are slow to heal, are also benefited by Wiesb. "Abdominal plethora and portal obstruction

are relieved." "By the artificial congestion which they set up in the venous plexus of the rectum

they have for an almost constant effect the disengorgement of the viscera under the diaphragm,

and the prevention of stasis in their parenchyma" (Constantin James—to whom I am indebted for

the whole of the above facts). Apelt observed the effects of drinking the water and excessive

bathing. Magdeburg observed the effects on eight healthy persons. The excitant, congestive, and

evacuant effects mentioned by James appear in the provings. Blood rushes to the face. There is

vertigo when lying in bed; and vertigo which causes falling. Heemorrhages occur from anus and

nose which relieve other symptoms. Fermentation occurs in the abdomen, and there is great

exhaustion after diarrhoea. Heemorrhoidal flow occurs with > of abdominal plethora. In one case

nose-bleed occurred persistently for six weeks, at the end of which a weakness of vision

bordering on blindness was cured. During the menses there is great weakness; also constipation.

A number of remarkable symptoms appeared in reference to the skin and nails. The hair grew

• ▸rapidly and became darker.
• ▸Nails also grew rapidly.
• ▸Corns and callosities dropped off.
• ▸Berridge

cured with Wiesb. 200 a Miss B., 21, of a soft corn between fourth and fifth toes of right foot.

• ▸There was burning and shooting pain in the corn (H.
• ▸P.
• ▸, vii.
• ▸477).
• ▸With the sweat of Wiesb.
• ▸there

• ▸is itching.
• ▸The sweat on the diseased parts made a brown stain.
• ▸The urine stiffened linen.
• ▸The

symptoms were: > By nose-bleed; by hemorrhoidal flux. < During menses. < From coffee

(frequent micturition). < Lying in bed (vertigo).

Becomes more cheerful (after 7th d.)—Impatient, depressed, hopeless —Anxiety and

• ▸uneasiness prevent sleep.
• ▸—Apprehensive.
• ▸—Ill-humour.
• ▸—Peevish, talks to no one.
• ▸—Disinclined to

think.

Vertigo: falls while walking; whirling in head, kind of insensibility, trembling

faintness, spasmodic hiccough, alternations of chills and heat, thirst, hemorrhage while riding in

a catriage.—Dizziness and heaviness of head while lying in bed, sensation as if she would

fall—Reeling and tottering, objects move before the eyes.—Head heavy, dull —Hair: grows much

more rapidly than usual; falls out and grows again rapidly; new growth darker; formerly soft,

becomes hard and brittle.—On scalp: large boils; desquamation; itching, as from vermin;

intolerable; incessant.

Glistening of eyes without clearness; slimy moisture is wiped from them.—Copious

secretion: tenacious; slimy; purulent.—Moisture in canthi—Eyes ache.—Pressure deep in

• ▸eyeballs.
• ▸—Eyeballs painful.
• ▸—Increased tension.
• ▸—Falling of eyebrows and lashes, with rapid

secondary growth.—Itching of lids and margins.—All things seem to move before eyes when

walking; reeling; staggers to and fro.—Weakness of vision > by persistent nose-bleed.

Copious secretion of ear-wax; soft; slimy; pale brown; thin, almost fluent.—Tickling

sticking in meatus.—Much itching of ear, > after copious flow of ear-wax.—Pains in

ears.—Roaring in ears with diminished hearing.

Frequent sneezing, secretion of thick mucus.—Secretion from nose: watery; tenacious,

like isinglass; yellow mucus for four months.—Nose-bleed for six weeks, with which weakness

of vision, bordering on blindness, disappeared.—Inclination to nose-bleed.—Frequent itching of

nostrils.

Expression of suffering.—Face: sunken; emaciated; red and hot, with itching;

circumscribed redness.—Blood rushes violently to face.—Sensation of cobweb lying on skin of 1.

cheek (2nd d.).—Profuse sweat on face compels rubbing.

Teeth seem too long.—Drawing tearing in teeth, so he could scarcely eat—Gums:

became scorbutic after long bathing; blistered; loose and painful; sore while eating. —Tongue:

fuzzy with nauseous taste; white on edges; middle brown.—Injected veins under tongue.—Mouth

dry.—Skin forms folds on inner side of mouth, lips, and cheeks, after which it peels

off—Tickling in posterior part of palate-—Very bad taste in morning.

Appetite: great; at first increased, afterwards diminished.—Thirst: great, with

chilliness; for refreshing drinks.—Qualmish; inclination to vomit; vomiting.—Promotes.

digestion.—Pressure in stomach, feeling of fulness and visible swelling of epigastric region.

• ▸(Inflammation of the liver.
• ▸).
• ▸—Violent pain in region of spleen.
• ▸—Emission of

much flatus; preceded by much rumbling and fermentation in abdomen.—Fermentation < after

• ▸drinking the water.
• ▸—Heaviness.
• ▸—Colic.
• ▸—Dragging from abdomen, half-way down r.
• ▸thigh, at the

point where a femoral hernia had protruded, with a sensation as if the hernia would protrude

(lasting several days, very distressing).—Swelling of r. inguinal region, with a sensation of an

inguinal hernia.

Hemorrhage from rectum.—Hzemorrhoidal flow (curative of abdominal

plethora).—Burning in rectum and bowels.—While urinating very urgent desire for

stool.—Diarrheea: early in morning, after drinking the water; scanty; copious, slimy; then liquid,

mixed with lumps, great exhaustion; then pasty; involuntary; black; grey; slimy; smells like

rotten eggs.—Stools more seldom as activity of skin or kidneys

• ▸increases.
• ▸—Constipation.
• ▸—Retained stool.
• ▸—No stool during menses.
• ▸—Stool lustreless, like

hardened membranous bile.

(Inflammation of the kidneys.).—Pressure in region of

kidneys.—Urination frequent; during night; < after coffee; scanty with perspiration.—Urine:

copious, becoming dark, with a greenish-yellow sediment; clear, light yellow, fatty; sediment in

urine with "hemorrhoids of the bladder.".—Urine stiffens linen.

(A woman, married for several years, became pregnant for the first

• ▸time.
• ▸).
• ▸—Miscarriage, that had taken place several times, was avoided.
• ▸—Oozing of slimy moisture

from the vagina.—Menses profuse, like hemorrhage for several days, then scanty, but continued

• ▸fourteen days.
• ▸—Scanty menses increased.
• ▸—Menses return after climacteric.
• ▸—Menses, usually

late, became earlier and more profuse.—Menstrual flow, that had been long absent, returned on

sixteenth day after drinking the water, with whirling in head, trembling, faintness, colic,

alternations of chill, heat, and sweat, with thirst, cramp in thighs, calves, feet, with cramp-like

hiccough; menses very profuse ——Menstrual blood: seems like mucus; slimy dark-coloured, not

watery.—During menses, great weakness.

Loose cough in morning.—Expectoration: lumps of mucus; firm,

tenacious mucus; sweetish after drinking the water; salt—Respiration in the bath, at first

accelerated, gradually becoming slow, after which gradually increases.—Short breath on walking,

on ascending.

Oppression of the breath, constriction of chest in region of diaphragm as soon as that

region is bathed; obliged to raise chest out of water; returned whenever the water reached the

region of diaphragm.—Chest seems constricted by clothes, which are not tight.

Slight angina pectoris—Becomes very weak about the heart.—Beat of heart

accelerated, violent.—Palpitation.—Pulse: slow; irregular; accelerated; intermittent.

Great weariness of lower limbs, with pain in toes.—Cramp in

• ▸thighs —Rheumatic pain in r.
• ▸thigh for several days, < walking.
• ▸—Pain in r.
• ▸thigh-bone as if hernia

would protrude.—Feet: painful and sensitive; burning.—Corns become raised, softened, and drop

off.—Strong odour of sweat on feet.

24. Generalities—Body smells like rotten eggs —Great ease and vigour of motion.—Feeling of

comfort with very profuse sweat.—(Less weakness).—Weariness; fatigue; exhaustion;

uneasiness.—Faintness—Dormant rheumatism reappears.—Aversion to the water, sometimes

causing cramp-like sensations when coming near the bath.—Much inclined to take cold.—Whole

body feels bruised.

In the bath the skin becomes thick, parchment-like, after a while rough like sand

between the fingers, feeling wrinkled.—(Parchment-like skin becomes

• ▸soft.
• ▸).
• ▸—Cracks.
• ▸—Desquamation.
• ▸—Callosities come off.
• ▸—Pimples, vesicles, boils; red, elevated

points; moist tetter—Very painful abscesses develop towards surface from deep in flesh, with

long-continued suppuration.—Itching: biting, burning; intolerable.

Sleepiness.—No desire to rise; weary, with sleep in morning.—Sleep sound but not

refreshing.—Sleep disturbed by dreams.

Chills: from slightest air on the clothes or under bedcovers; while dressing after

• ▸bath.
• ▸—Alternations of chill and heat.
• ▸—Orgasm of blood disturbing sleep.
• ▸—General heat of body

with a hard stool.—Sensation of burning heat over whole body.—Constant sensation of heat with

qualmishness.—Burning heat of hands.—Sweat: profuse, and urine; copious on a long walk, with

itching; clammy, itching; trickles from head; on neck, with disappearance of the yellow spots;

profuse on face, compels rubbing.—Sweat on palms and soles, wrinkling of skin of hands as

washerwoman's.—The sweat on diseased parts colours linen brown.

• ▸Amenorrhoea.
• ▸Angina pectoris.
• ▸Body, odour of, offensive.
• ▸Constipation.
• ▸Corns.

• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸Ear-wax, excessive.
• ▸Epistaxis.
• ▸Glaucoma.
• ▸Gout.
• ▸Hemorrhage.
• ▸Hemorrhoids.
• ▸Hair,

• ▸rapid growth of; falling of; grows darker.
• ▸Hernia, inguinal; femoral.
• ▸Indigestion.
• ▸Miscarriage,

• ▸prevents.
• ▸Rheumatism.
• ▸Sterility.
• ▸Vertigo; caduca.
• ▸Whitlow.

• ▸Compare: Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸Corns, Fer.
• ▸pic.
• ▸Callosities, Ant.
• ▸c.
• ▸Hair turns darker, jabor.
• ▸, Pilo.
• ▸,

Wild.

Trembling of limbs with weakness.—Very rapid growth of nails——Limbs: feel light,

with desire to move; heavy; indolent; weary; exhausted.—Swelling of hands and feet disappeared

after copious sweat.—Sweat of hands and feet.