Teplitz.
The mineral water of Teplitz in Bohemia. [Contains in 16 oz. Nat. c. gr.
2.28, Nat. m. .43, Nat. fl. sil. .13, K. sul. .43, K. mur. .1, Calc. c. .32, Sil. .31,
&c.] Dilution.Clinical.─
Amenorrhśa. Bones, affections of.
Breast, tumours in. Epistaxis. Eruptions. Erysipelas. Flatulence. Gout. Hćmorrhoids.
Leucorrhśa. Metrorrhagia. Paralysis. Rheumatism. Sciatica. Scurvy. Speech, difficult.
Spine, pains in. Tongue, paralysis of. Toothache. Ulcers. Vertigo.
Characteristics.─
The waters of Teplitz are chiefly in repute for the treatment of gouty
patients, especially those suffering from atonic gout. The springs are alkaline and hot, and
the temperature forms a leading feature in their action. The symptoms of the Schemaare
Perutz’, who experimented on himself and several healthy individuals, together with symptoms
by Hromada. Symptoms of Nat. c. and Nat. m. appear throughout. Tearfulness, low spirits, and
irritability were noted, and giddiness of much intensity. This symptom has been cured:
“Giddiness, when she walks all the houses seem to move too.” Some Peculiar Symptoms are: On moving head it seems as if something
fell from one side to the other. Burning in stomach, >
drinking cold water. > From hćmorrhoidal bleeding.
Burning sensation in many parts. Hćmorrhage; epistaxis; piles; with stool; metrorrhagia.
Vesicles in mouth and on tongue. Vesicular erysipelas. Paralysis of tongue; of limbs. Cold
feelings: in upper arm; in foot. Increased sensitiveness to cold. The symptoms are < at night (bone pains). <
Motion. > By friction. >
Drinking cold water.
Relations.─
Compare:
Nat. c., Nat. m., K. sul., Mang., Lith., Sil., Alm.
SYMPTOMS.
1. Mind.─
Anxiety.─Irritable,
tearful.─Loud speech and absence of thought.─Indisposition
to work.─Weak memory.
2. Head.─
Confusion of head with aching over eyes.─Vertigo:
with feeling of paraplegia; with faintness; with noise in ears and dim vision; with feeling,
when she walks, as if all the houses moved too.─On moving head,
sensation as if something fell from one side to the other, with weak memory.─Tearing
in head with pain in throat so that he could not breathe freely.─Bursting
headache.─Frontal headache with inclination to vomit.─Throbbing
headache in r. temple with swollen red face.─Aching in occiput.─Hair
falls out.─Large movable lumps on head with erysipelas of face.─Vesicles
on scalp.─Soreness of hairy scalp, every hair causing pain when touched.
3. Eyes.─
Both eyes closed in morning with white
viscid mucus.─Dryness in r. eye and dimness of vision.─Aching
and burning in eyes.─Erysipelas of lids.─On r. lid
two styes, which disappear without suppuration.─Cramp pain in upper
lids, cannot be opened except with the hand.─Lachrymation.─Inflammation
of conjunctiva of eyelid and eye ball.
4. Ears.─
Swelling of l. concha with erysipelatous
inflammation.─Purulent discharge from ear.─Tearing
pain in interior of r. ear as from a red-hot coal.─Tearing, shooting
pain first in one ear, then in the other.─Dulness of hearing, with
sensation as if sweat stopped ears.─Tinnitus.
5. Nose.─
Aching over root of nose.─Pricking
and dryness in nose.─Frequent and profuse epistaxis.
6. Face.─
Face: swollen, red; swollen, pale.─Drawing
and tearing in face; in r. side from forehead to jaw, with drawing of the jaw awry and
difficult speech.
8. Mouth.─
Raging toothache, r. cheek and lower
jaw drawn to l. side, preventing proper speech.─Violent toothache as if
all teeth suddenly pierced with a hot iron.─Boring in upper molars.─All
incisors feel too long.─Frequent bleeding of gums with loosening of
teeth.─Spasmodic protrusion of tongue with difficult speech.─Tongue:
paralysed; swollen; moist; coated white or yellow.─Vesicles on back of
tongue with burning pain in throat.─Inside r. cheek several small
vesicles which burst and form ulcers.─Dry mouth with burning on tip of
tongue.
9. Throat.─
Pain in throat without redness.─Aching
on swallowing.─Tearing-drawing in muscles of throat and stiffness of
neck.─Swelling of uvula and tonsils with difficulty of swallowing.─Swelling
of cervical glands.
11. Stomach.─
Canine hunger, soon satisfied, and
followed by stomachache.─Anorexia: with sour taste; with white, viscid
coating on tongue; with feeling of fulness in pit of stomach.─Heartburn
with flow of much water on tongue.─Nausea, and faint feeling, and
vomiting.─Aching in stomach extending through to back.─Pain
in stomach, with burning rising up into throat as if a red hot coal lay there; > drinking cold water.─Sensation as if
stomach full of water; seems to splash about when walking.─Full feeling
in stomach with much wind and eructation.
12. Abdomen.─
Shooting in r. hypochondrium, esp.
on drawing a full breath.─Tearing in umbilical region.─Tense,
swollen abdomen, with discharge of much flatus.─Rumbling.─Weight
in abdomen and bearing down to genitals.─Cramp of recti muscles.─Swelling
of inguinal glands.
13. Stool and Anus.─
Profuse bleeding of piles
with > of symptoms.─Passage of
whitish, acrid mucus by anus.─Painful piles and violent burning in anus.─Burning
in rectum with evacuation of viscid, blood-streaked secretion.─Itching
in perinćum, with production of eruption.─Frequent urging without
stool.─Discharge of bright red blood by stool, with colic.─Stool:
thin, frothy, with burning in anus; hard with bright red blood.─Constipation:
with nausea; with pain in back and heaviness of lower limbs.
14. Urinary Organs.─
In. urethra: flying shooting;
burning in anterior part.─Urine: copious; scanty; retained; slimy;
brick-dust sediment.
15. Male Sexual Organs.─
Vesicles on glans
becoming speedily sore.─Suppurating eruption on glans and scrotum
leaving blue marks.─Painful swelling of testes.─Drawing
in r. testis and cord.─Increased desire and dreams.
16. Female Sexual Organs.─
Milk-white leucorrhśa
like boiled starch.─Violent tearing pain in abdomen.─Menses
a fortnight before time.─Often pain in hypogastrium as if everything
would be forced out below; menses, which had never appeared, occurred very copiously.─Metrorrhagia
with frightful pains in abdomen; blood black and coagulated.
17. Respiratory Organs.─
Aching in larynx > when swallowing.─In larynx: dryness;
roughness; tickling.─In trachea: catarrh, with expectoration of viscid
mucus; rawness.─Hoarseness to aphonia.─Cough: short,
dry; suffocative; at night.─Expectoration: viscid, yellow mucus;
copious.─Violent cough with enormous expectoration of grey colour, which
only disappears when an eruption appears.
18. Chest.─
Oppression, as from great rush of
blood to chest.─Cramp-like contraction in chest.─Shooting
in intercostal muscles.─Tearing in pectoralis major to shoulder.─Burning
under sternum.─In r. breast two lumps as large as hazel-nuts with dull
pain.─Fine pricking as with needle in r. breast.
19. Heart.─
Violent shooting in heart; with
palpitation.─Action of heart: irregular, painful; intermitting.─Pulse:
quick, hard; fall.
20. Neck and Back.─
Bruised pain in nape and back.─Tearing
and drawing in nape with stiffness.─Shooting pains along spinal column,
from nape to lumbar vertebrć, preventing slightest motion.─Tearing
drawing: down back to sacrum; in scapulć.─Shooting and gnawing between
scapulć.─Eruption of pimples on whole back.─In
small of back: pain < by every movement; drawing into
pelvis, to calves.─Aching and stitches in loins, extend to spine, with
difficulty of breathing.
21. Limbs.─
Weariness and heaviness.─Tearing,
drawing, shooting in limbs, esp. joints.─Tearing in hands and feet.
22. Upper Limbs.─
Paralysis: of r. arm; of both
arms, with creeping in finger-tips.─Violent pains in both arms with
raised spots like syphilis.─Tearing in whole arm with contraction of
elbow-joint.─Stiffness in l. shoulder-joint with difficulty in raising
arm, esp. backwards.─Violent, ever-increasing pain in r. shoulder-joint.─Dislocation
pain in shoulder.─Paralysis of shoulders.─Burning or
shooting in axilla.─In upper arm: shiny red swelling; cold feeling as if
cold wind blew on it; sore, bruised feeling; boring, tearing; cramp.─Elbow:
swelling and tearing; cracking, and in wrist; shooting; burning; scab-like eruption round.─Tearing
down forearm to fingers.─In wrist: redness, swelling; violent pains;
stiffness; sprained feeling in r.─Hands: tremble: swelling of; gouty
nodes on fingers.
23. Lower Limbs.─
Hip-joints: stiff; tearing;
shooting; bruised pains.─Aching in femur with cold feeling.─Numbness;
jerking; crampy swelling in thighs and calves.─Knee-joint: swollen,
stiff; cracking in; aching in patella.─Swelling and suppuration of bone
in middle of l. leg.─Sprained feeling in ankle.─Tension
in tendo Achillis, preventing putting heel to ground.─Burning in heels.─Shooting-jerking
in great toe.
24. Generalities.─
Weariness and heaviness on
waking with congestion of head.─Increased sensitiveness to draughts.
25. Skin.─
Redness of skin.─Swelling
and profuse perspiration.─Rash like scarlatina; miliary; pustular;
erysipelas, vesicular.─Ulceration.─Pricking as with
needles.
26. Sleep.─
Sleepiness; by day.─Frequent
jerks on falling to sleep.─Dreams: incompleted; lively with increased
sexual desire.
27. Fever.─
Chilliness, shuddering.─Cold
feeling in shoulder; in thigh.─Prickly heat, followed by moderate sweat.─Copious
sweat.─Sour and mouldy-smelling sweat.® 2000
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