Introduction
There are several springs at Carlsbad, of which “Sprudel” and “Muhlbrunnen” are the chief. Sprudel has a temperature varying from 125 to 162.6 F, and contains in one thousand parts (Ragsby, 1862):.
Mind.
Emotional.
Very excited and peevish, and often as if beside himself about trifles, with flushes of heat all over. Self-satisfied, very talkative, and uncommonly good-humored. Weeping, timorous, despairing mood. His nerves are so much affected that the sorrows of others cause him to weep easily. Mood very much depressed, like an excessive home-sickness; at last violent weeping (2nd day), (after 4 glasses). Great dejection of spirits; without cause he is very unusually sulky. Painful dejection, with foul stomach. Gloomy and self-absorbed. Unpleasant mood in the afternoon, without cause for sadness. Discouraged and anxious in the discharge of his domestic duties. Attacks of anxiety.
Constrictive anxiety when in the room; somewhat better in the open air. Faint-hearted, with frequent yawning, at 9 a. m. (13th day). Quiet ill-humor, and indisposed to speak. In the morning, on rising, irritable and out of humor, and peevish the whole day.
Very much disposed to take everything in bad part and to be critical (especially after 3 weeks and later). Is easily vexed about things which, when well, would have made him laugh, together with a dull pressure in the right side of the lower abdomen, below the liver, where, when bathing, he frequently noticed a loose swelling (in the coecum), (after 4 weeks).
Variable mood. Intellectual. Difficult thinking. Unfitness to think, and for every, even the slightest mental occupation; cannot find words to express himself correctly. Much effort in employing his mind. Indisposition to read, and to all exertion of mind; he took up now this book, now that, but could read nothing. Foolish condition, as if stupid, with dull pressing pain in forehead, at times also with buzzing and roaring in the ears.
Uncommon absence of mind and confusion of speech. Uncommonly absent- minded; forgets names. Heedlessness, so that at times he expresses himself only with great exertion, and in writing, often omits letters.
Head.
Confusion and Vertigo.
Confusion and gloominess of the whole head; such a sensation as remains after intoxication. Confusion and heaviness of the head, especially after eating; better on motion in the open air.
Confusion, with difficulty in thinking and indolence of mind, which becomes tired very soon and easily. (30) Dizzy confusion of the head during the night, changing to a sensation of fullness in the forehead, in the morning, which disappears after rising.
Dizzy confusion in the head, now pressure in the forehead, now a drawing tension in the occiput. Excessive stupefaction of the head, with gloominess, disappearing in the open air, and returning frequently during the day. Frequent attacks of vertigo (18th day). Momentary attacks of vertigo, so that he had to hold himself up, also turning as if in a circle;better in the open air. Dizziness. Sensations. Remarkable rush of blood to the head, with heaviness, benumbed confusion of the head, great melancholy, and weakness of mind. Cracking in the head, as if something were breaking in it, especially perceptible in the evening, on lying down. Head very heavy, full and stupefied; worse on stooping, shaking round, and turning, which quivering in the lids. Heat of the head, worse on entering a room (40) Drawing in streaks over the surface of the brain, as if in the membranes and sinuses. Pressing headache, especially in the forehead, with dull confusion. Dull pressing headache, in the morning, after waking, and almost the whole forenoon (13th day). Extremely annoying pressing headache, more on the vertex, with from time to time single stitches and jerks in the center, through the substance of the brain. Maddening, stupefying pressing headache, especially in the forehead. Tearing headache, now on the right side, now on the left, in the temples and the occiput, less on motion. Throbbing and beating in the head synchronously with the pulse, on the vertex, frequently also in the occiput, with bluish-red face; it is especially violent on stooping or ascending on eminence. Transient drawing creeping in the whole cranial periosteum. Sensitiveness of the periosteum of the cranium. Forehead. Confusion, like intoxication, in the forehead, with sensation of heaviness in the eyeballs. [50) Slumbering by day caused headache in the forehead and temples; a pressure (11th day). Headache in the forehead and temples, with swollen temporal veins. Some headache in the left side of the forehead. Dull pressure in the forehead, after a meal (14th day). Burrowing pressure in the forehead (7th day). Frequent beatings in the forehead and temples (18th day). Temples. Sensitive stitches in the right temple. Sensitive beating in the right temple, in the forenoon (2oth day). Vertex. Dull pressure in the upper part of the head (after the first bath). Crawling and compression in the galea aponeurotica, now on the vertex, now in the occiput. Parietals. Tensive compressing pain from the parietal hones to the frontal eminences forward, at short intervals. Burrowing headache in the right side (5th day), (2 hours after 7 glasses).
Sore pressing pain above in the right side of the head, close under the bones, on a small spot, in the evening, in bed. Occiput. Fullness and heaviness in the occiput, slighter in the open air, but appearing with the former violence on re-entering the room. Pressing and tension on the occiput, most violent on the lower lateral eminences. External Head. At times, excessive falling out of the hair. Smoothing down the hair is very painful. Sensation as if something cold ran over the whole head, and the hair bristled up.
Eye.
Weakness of the eyes, especially on writing and long-continued reading. Heat streams from the eyes, with burning and pressing in them, and an appearance of black spots swimming about. (70) Burning and pressing, especially around the eye, but also in the ball itself;as from sand, or as when none looks into the sun, with increased secretion from the Meibomian glands. Pressing pain in the eyes, as if the eyes were being pressed downward from above, and were too large, and did not have sufficient room in the orbits. Pressure and pain in the eyes; they become cloudy, as if a veil were before them. Orbit. Violent pressing pain above the orbits, spreading below or toward the temples. Slight ticking in the right supraorbital nerve and in the whole right upper lid; at the same time twitching in the inner angle of the eye. Very sensitive, dull stitches in the upper margin of the left orbit (19th day). Lids. Lids at times somewhat oedematous, swollen, and in the morning agglutinated with mucus. The inner surface of the lids is inflamed (10th day). Twitching-quivering in the upper lids, causing constant rubbing of the eye, as if some foreign body were there. Lachrymal Apparatus. Greatly increased lachrymal secretion. On sewing, her eyes water, and on long looking at one object, the eye is covered as by a veil. Vision.
A weakness of the eye (weakness of vision; can no more see near objects; cannot do fine work) becomes aggravated; she is obliged to wipe her eyes and wink constantly, which momentarily relieves the dimness and tension; it is better in the open air (4th day after 6 glasses). Objects swim before the sight. The long letters of sign cannot be recognized at the distance of 50 feet; they run together (14th day). Quivering before the eyes. Flickering before the vision; he seems to see through a veil. In the street, soon after writing, violent flickering and fiery sparks before the eyes; everything about him trebles and wavers; he can scarcely discern passing faces. Quivering, zigzag semicircle on the right side of the field of vision, in the morning (7th day after 3 glasses). When working with the hands, bifurcated bodies and gray sports appear in the axis of vision. Obliquely above the right eye, from the right angle to the left, a dark stripe, which impairs the vision; it is momentary, especially after winking, when walking in the open air, for several days (3rd week). A cloud which had formerly existed before the vision, and which moved upward and downward with the vision, became worse and thicker (1st week).
Ear.
Increased warmth in the ear, which itches. Pinching in the left inner ear. Fine twitching stitches from the Eustachian tube to the tympanum; disappearing on boring with the finger. Hearing. Frequent murmuring in the ears, agreeing with the rate of the pulse; at times a sensation of slight pressure and tension, as if the ears were stopped. Humming and roaring, also ringing, in the ears, at times also fluttering before them. Momentary ringing in the right ear, when writing in the afternoon (15th day). Very frequently violent ringing, at times changing into a transient loss of hearing, at times into a dull roaring.
Nose.–Objective.
Bluish color of the nose. Turgescence of the vena nasalis.
Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.