Kissingen

The mineral springs at Kissingen in Bavaria.

The "Rakoczy" and the "Pandur" are the two chief springs, the latter mostly used for bathing purposes.

ANALYSIS BY LIEBIG

In 1000 grammes.

Rakoczy.

Pandur.

Potassium chloride, Sodium chloride, Sodium bromide, Sodium nitrate, Lithium chloride, Magnesium chloride, Magnesium sulphate, Magnesium carbonate, Calcium carbonate, Calcium sulphate, Calcium phosphate, Ferrum carbonate, "Silicic acid,"

Ammonia, 0.28690 5.82205 0.00838 0.00931 0.02002 0.30379 0.58839 0.01704 1.06096 0.38937 0.00561 0.03158 0.01290 0.00091 0.24140 5.52071 0.00709 0.00353 0.01680 0.21163 0.59777 0.04479 1.01484 0.30014 0.00522 0.02771 0.00410 0.00384

Sum of solid constituents, 8.55721 7.99957 Carbonic acid, free and partly combined, Specific gravity at 15° C., Temperature, 1305.5 c.c.

1.00734 10.7° C.

1505.5 c.c.

1.00660 10.7° C.

Authorities.

1 , Dr. Carl Preu, Archiv. f. Hom. Heilk., 13, 3, p. 96, effects on healthy persons; 2 , v. Siebold, Diss. zu Kissingen, 1828, general effects; 3 , Maas Kissingen, etc., 1830, from Preu.

MIND

• Emotional.
• Yielding disposition, 1.
• Excessive joyfulness, 1.
• Weeping and complaining, tossing to and fro on account of the pain, 3.
• She is involuntarily obliged to weep, 1.
• If he only looks at any one he must weep, 1.
• She constantly seeks for unpleasant things to think about, and broods over them, 1.
• Want of self-reliance, 1.
• Anxiety and weakness, preceding menstruation, 1.
• Frightful anxiety, 2. [10.]
• Very easily frightened, 1.
• Frightful thoughts at night on waking, 1.
• Excessive irritability, 1.
• Ill-humored, fretful, exhausted, weary of life; suddenly; always an hour after drinking the water; very transient, 1.
• Intellectual.
• In all changes of occupation and surroundings he was unable to free himself from one absorbing thought, 1.
• Disinclined for any earnest work, 1.
• Inability for mental work, 1.
• Irresolute, 1.
• Distraction of mind, he never knows what he wishes to say, 1.
• He is unable to find the proper expression for what he wishes to say, 1. [20.]
• Speech is difficult because he constantly makes mistakes in speaking, 1.
• Loss of ideas, with sleepiness, 1.
• Weakness of memory, 1.

HEAD

• Confusion and Vertigo.
• Confusion of the head, 1.
• Vertigo while eating; suddenly after eating cooked cherries, 1.
• Feeling of intoxication, 1.
• General Head.
• Heaviness of the head and limbs, 1.
• Emptiness of the head with apprehension, 1.
• Fulness in the head, with pressure outward to the eyes, 1.
• Tensive headache aggravated by reading, 1. [30.]
• Rush of blood to the head and chest, with cold feet, 1.
• Rush of blood to the head, with perspiration on the forehead, 1.
• Constriction of the head, 1.
• Constrictive headache while reading, 1.
• Forehead.
• Pain in both frontal eminences, which extends down to the nasal bones, 1.
• Headache above the left eye with double vision, 1.
• Drawing in the head, extending from the root of the nose upward, 1.
• Parietals.
• Pain as from a nail in the middle of the right parietal bone, 1.
• Occiput.
• A feeling in the occipital bone as if something were folded upon itself, 1.
• Pain in the occipital bone, 1. [40.]
• Transient drawing in the left side of the occiput, 1.
• Pressive pain deep in the occiput, 1.
• External Head.
• Tension in the skin of the left side of the head, extending to the face, 1.
• Tensive pain in the whole of the scalp, 1.
• Feeling as though the skin about the head were constricted and loosened from the bone, 1.
• Itching on the occiput, 1.

EYE

• Objective.
• The white of the eye seems yellow, 3.
• Staring eyes, 3.
• Subjective.
• Burning in the eyes in the evening, 1.
• Pressure in the eyes, 1. [50.]
• Itching in the eyes, 1.
• Brow and Orbit.
• Pressure above the right eye, 1.
• Pressure above the left eye, 1.
• Acute stitches beneath the right eye, extending outwardly, 1.
• Lids.
• Redness of the lower lid with agglutination of it, 1.
• Twitching of the right lower lid, 1.
• Tension of the lids, 1.
• Lachrymal Apparatus.
• Lachrymation of the left eye without pain, 1.
• Acrid lachrymation with pain in the canthi, 1.
• Vision.
• Dimness of the eyes, 1. [60.]
• Muscæ volitantes, 1.

EAR

• Hot ears, 1.
• Ringing in the ears, 1.
• Roaring in the ears, 1.

NOSE

• Objective.
• Stopped catarrh, 1.
• Fluent catarrh, 1.
• Stoppage of the nose, that hinders him from reading, 1.
• Subjective.
• Dryness of the nose, 1.
• Constant sensation as though the nose would begin to bleed, 1.
• Crawling in the right side of the nose, as though he would sneeze, 1.

FACE. [70.]

• Deathly paleness, 3.
• Swelling of the right side of the cheek suddenly over night, 1.
• Feeling of pressing asunder in both zygomata, 1.
• Painful pressure in the malar bones and in the ear, 1.
• The upper lip burns at night, and seems as if it would become swollen, 1.
• Dull pain in both jaws, 1.

MOUTH

• Teeth.
• Teeth on edge, as after acids, 1.
• Attack of toothache during menstruation, 1.
• Dull pain in some old roots, 1.
• The roots of all the teeth of the left lower jaw are painful, as if they ought to come out, 1. [80.]
• Throbbing and boring in the upper front teeth, 1.
• Gums.
• Sore gums, 1.
• Tongue.
• Tongue coated, 1.
• Coated, tongue with pasty taste in the mouth, 1.
• Dry tongue without thirst, 1.
• Prickling sticking on the margin of the tongue, as if an ulcer would form, 1.
• General Mouth.
• Pasty feeling in the mouth, 1.
• Saliva.
• Accumulation of water in the mouth, 1.
• Much accumulation in mouth of saliva, which has the appearance of soap and water, 1.
• Taste.
• Flat taste in the mouth; food however has a good taste, 1. [90.]
• Salty taste, like the taste of the spring water (after three days), and lasting several weeks after ceasing to drink the water, 1.

THROAT

• Mucus in the throat, 1.
• Contraction in the throat, 1.
• The glands of the neck become swollen, 1.

STOMACH

• Appetite.
• Appetite without hunger, 1.
• He is constantly hungry, so that he wishes to eat often, 1.
• Feeling of hunger painful, but satisfied immediately on eating, 1.
• Satiated in the afternoon, 1.
• Thirst.
• Constant thirst, even in the forenoon, 1.
• Eructations.
• Frequent eructations in the open air, 12. [100.]
• Frequent tasteless eructations, 1.
• Eructations tasting of the food, first after a few hours, 1.
• Nausea and Vomiting.
• Nausea, with accumulation of water in the mouth, half an hour after breakfast, 1.
• Easy qualmishness in the throat, 1.
• Inclination to vomit, 2.
• Violent, repeated inclination to vomit, 3.
• Vomiting of leathery yellowish-brown mucus, 3.
• Excessive vomiting and purging of black clotted blood, 3.
• Stomach.
• Anxiety about the pit of the stomach, aggravated by deep breathing, 1.
• Heaviness and distension beneath the pit of the stomach, 1. [110.]
• Fulness in the stomach, 1.
• Pressure in the stomach, also, early in the morning, 1.
• Stitches in the epigastric region, in the right side, 1.

ABDOMEN

• Hypochondria.
• Feeling as though everything were too tight about the hips, obliging her to loosen her dress, 1.
• Umbilical and Sides.
• Constriction about the umbilicus, 1.
• Tension in the right side of the abdomen, 1.
• General Abdomen.
• Distended abdomen, 2.
• Hard, painful, spasmodically retracted abdomen, 3.
• Incarceration of flatulence, 1.
• Rumbling and cutting in the abdomen, 1. [120.]
• Frequent griping in the abdomen, daily, 1.
• Pressure in the abdomen, in the morning, 1.
• Violent pressive pain in the hepatic region, 1.
• Colicky sensation in the abdomen, 2.
• Enormous colic with violent cramps, 3.

RECTUM AND ANUS

• Objective.
• Swelling of the hæmorrhoidal veins, 2.
• Excessive hæmorrhoidal flux, 3.
• Hæmorrhoidal flux more profuse than ever during three weeks, 3.
• Subjective.
• Feeling of dryness in the rectum, 1.
• Dragging in the rectum, 1. [130.]
• Frequent stitches in the rectum, 1.
• Itching in the anus, 2.
• Frequent ineffectual desire for stool, 1.

STOOL

• Diarrhœa.
• Stools leathery, yellowish-brown, diarrhœa-like, 3.
• Three pasty evacuations during the day; towards evening, one solid stool, 1.
• Evacuation of much tenacious yellow or whitish-green mucus, together with small fecal masses, during the second week, 3.
• Evacuation of a large quantity of slimy, bilious matter of an offensive, assafœtida-like odor (after fourth day); lasting two weeks (in one habitually constipated), 3.
• Blackish-green evacuations from the bowels, 1.
• Discharge of an incredible, amount of blackish-green, burnt, lumpy fæces, similar to large pieces of slate, preceded by blackish-green substances similar to gastric mucus, preceded by colicky pains, and rumbling in the abdomen (after twelve days); the former stool caused so much exertion in its passage, and was attended with so much pain, that faintness followed immediately on the stool and lasted a long time, 3 . [In a patient suffering from inactivity of the intestines.]
• Frequent bloody evacuations during the third week; afterwards a hæmorrhoidal flux, and no more vomiting of blood, 3 . [In a patient suffering from vomiting of blood following the disappearance of the hæmorrhoidal flux.] [140.]
• Passage of gallstones, 3.
• Copious discharge of old scybala, 3.
• Constipation.
• Constipation, lasting eight days, 3.
• Constipation; the usual morning stool was omitted (after third day), 1.
• Very difficult stool; it is only with difficulty pressed out of the rectum; he was therewith obliged to press the nates apart, 1.

URINARY ORGANS

• Feeling of moisture at the meatus urinarius, as if he would have gonorrhœa, 1.
• Itching and sticking in the urethra when not urinating, 1.
• Urine.
• Sand and gravel in the urine for several weeks, 3.
• Red sand in the urine, 1.

SEXUAL ORGANS

• Unusual seminal emission at night, 1. [150.]
• Profuse menstruation, with discharge of membranous concretions, 2.
• Profuse menstruation, 1.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

• More hoarseness than usual, 1.
• Frequent expectoration of mucus, 1.

CHEST

• Tightness of the chest, 1.
• Pressure on the chest, 1.
• Pressure on the left chest, 1.
• Stitches in the left mammary gland, 1.

HEART AND PULSE

• Fulness in the præcordium, 2.
• Palpitation with anxiety, 1. [160.]
• The beats of the heart intermit, 1.
• Pulse greatly accelerated and feverish, 3.
• Contracted pulse without beating of the heart, 3.

BACK

• A tensive sprained feeling in the left side of the back, 1.
• An acute stitch in the left side close to the spine, beneath the last rib; pain between the scapulæ as if beaten, while sitting and lying, 1.
• Lameness in the small of the back, 1.
• Pain in the small of the back, 1.
• Stitches in the small of the back, 1.
• Crawling in the small of the back, as if menstruation would come on, 1.
• Crawling in both kidney regions, 1.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL. [170.]

• Pain and tearing in the limbs, 3.
• Cramplike feeling in the limbs, especially in the hands, as if the arms had fallen asleep; violent inflammation of the extensor digitorum communis of both hands, in one hitherto paralyzed, 1.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Weakness in the arms, they feel very heavy, 1.
• She cannot raise the arms from the bed-covers on account of a feeling of heaviness, 1.
• The right arm has fallen asleep and feels paralyzed, 1.
• Crawling in the left arm; loss of sensibility, 1.
• Pain in the right shoulder, as after taking cold, 1.
• Burning pain on the left shoulder, 1.
• The shoulders are painful, as if some one had poured hot water over them, 1.
• Transient pain above the left elbow, 1. [180.]
• Fuzzy feeling in the tips of the fingers, 1.
• Pain as from dislocation in the first joints of the right fourth finger, which loses itself in a stitch extending along the tendon above the metacarpus, 1.
• Stitches in the right little finger, 1.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• He frequently stumbles when walking, on account of stiffness of the joints, 1.
• Feels a jerking in the limbs while writing, 1.
• Tension in the calves, 1.
• Cramp in the right calf and left toe, at night, 1.
• Heaviness of the feet, 1.
• A corn begins to be painful, 1.
• Boring pains in a corn, 1. [190.]
• Sticking pains in a corn, 1.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

• Objective.
• Trembling of the whole body, 1, 3.
• Weary and sleepy during the day, 1.
• Unusually weary after taking a walk, 1.
• Weak and weary, 1.
• Uneasiness, so that he is unable to lie still in any place, 2.
• Subjective.
• Stitches, here and here, 1.
• Pulsation of the body, even when he remains perfectly quiet, 1.

SKIN

• Objective.
• Yellowness of the skin, 3.
• A three-months old wart on the finger disappears, 1. [200.]
• Itching eruption on the abdomen and feet, 1.
• Subjective.
• Burning sticking in the skin of the right calf, 1.
• Itching on the limbs, 1.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

• Sleepiness.
• Yawning, 1.
• Frequent yawning, 1.
• Sleepiness during the day, 1.
• Is not inclined to do anything but sleep, 12.
• Very quiet sleep all night long, 1.
• Sleeplessness.
• Restless sleep with frequent waking, 1.
• He wakes several times at night with great uneasiness, 1. [210.]
• Sleep not refreshing, 1.
• Jerking during sleep, 1.
• Starts up twice while falling asleep as from an electric shock through the whole body, 1.
• Dreams.
• One dream follows another the whole night, though he frequently wakes between them, 1.
• Dreamy sleep with confused dreams, 1.
• Confused dreams after a hearty supper, 1.
• Vexatious dreams, 1.
• Frightful dreams, 1.
• Frightful dreams of murder and fire, 1.

FEVER

• Chilliness.
• Chilliness after breakfast so that he is obliged to lie down in bed, 1. [220.]
• Chilliness while walking, immediately followed by easy perspiration, 1.
• Constant creeping of chilliness over the whole body, 1.
• Cold creeping over forehead, with heat of the head and face, soon followed by the daily febrile chill, 1.
• Febrile chill recurring daily at a definite hour (10 A.M.), but gradually occurring later, 1.
• Shivering together with gooseflesh, 1.
• Cold hands and feet, 3.
• Heat.
• Great heat after a little wine, in one accustomed to it, 1.
• Febrile heat, 2.
• Flushes of heat and easy perspiration, 1.
• Orgasm of blood, 1. [230.]
• Heat of the head, 3.
• Head constantly hot during the febrile chill, 1.
• Great heat of the head and face, in the afternoon, 1.
• Sweat.
• Much perspiration during the day, 1.
• Profuse perspiration, 3.
• Whole body reeking with perspiration (with trembling), 3.
• Anxious perspiration, 2.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Morning ), Pressure in abdomen; after breakfast, chilliness.
• ( Forenoon ), At 10 o'clock, febrile chill.
• ( Evening ), Burning in eyes.
• ( Night ), On waking, frightful thoughts; burning of upper lip; cramp in calf, etc.
• ( Deep breathing ), Anxiety about pit of stomach.
• ( After eating cooked cherries ), Vertigo.
• ( While eating ), Vertigo.
• ( During menstruation ), Toothache.
• ( Reading ), Tensive headache; constrictive headache.
• ( While writing ), Jerking feeling in limbs.