BROMIUM.
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
The pure elementary substance (Bromine).
Preparation , Tincture, and dilutions with distilled water.
Authorities. ( 1 to 17, from Hering's résumé, Neues Archiv , 2, 3; when the preparation used is not noted with the symptom or referred to in this list, it is understood to be the 30th); 1 , Lippe, provings on himself, a young woman, and others; 2 , C. Hering, provings on himself and others, including a girl and a married woman; 3 , F. Hausemann, provings on himself with different potencies, from the 30th to the 3d, for several months; 4 , Schmid, a; 5 , Schmid, b.; 6 , Schmid, c.; 7 , Neidhard; 8 , Heimerdinger, inaug. dis. Tübingen, 1837, took 5 and afterward 8 drops of Brom. in distilled water; 9 , Höring, inaug. dis. Tübingen, 1838, took daily in the morning a teaspoonful of a solution of 6 drops in 1/2 an oz. of water, afterward increasing doses to 9 drops; 10 , Lœwing; 11 , N. N., taken from Noak and Trinks; 12 , Gosewich, provings on himself and others; 13 , Fournet, from Trousseau and Pidoux, took two drops in some gum arabic water; 14 , Butzke, Dissert. Berol., 1828, took daily 3 to 13 drops of a solution of 1/2 dr. of Brom. in 4 ozs. of water; 15 , "Ch. W" (in Hering); 16 , Franz, Berlin. Jahrb. f. Pharm., 1828, effects of the vapors (he also made numerous experiments on various animals); 17 , Carwig (from Hering); 18 , Lembke A. H. Z., 37, 115 et seq ., provings with the 1st; 19 , ibid., provings with the 3d; 20 , ibid., provings with the 2d; 21 , ibid., provings with the 1/20th; 22 , Czerwiakovski, De Brom. (from Roth); 23 , Glover, Edin. Med. Journ., 58, 120 (ibid.); 24 , Dublin Press, 1850 (ibid.); 25 , Duffield, case of poisoning, N. Y. Med. Record, 2, 323 (from Detroit Rev. of Med. and Pharm.); 26 , Berridge, N. E. Med. Gaz., 9, 403, proving of Miss A. B., with the cm. of Fincke.
MIND
- He becomes averse to his business; it seems as though he must relinquish it, 1.
- Lively mood in a hypochondriac, 1.
- Lively disposition, 18.
- Apathy, weakness, 18.
- Taciturn, 1.
- Disconcerted, with increased sensation of warmth in the head, 18.
- In the evening some apprehensiveness, oppression of the heart and some headache.
- No action on the pulse or heart, rather upon respiration (after he had taken the drug for sixteen days increasing to fourteen drops; having taken in all 132 drops), 9.
- In the evening when alone it seems as though he was obliged to look about him, and would somewhere see an apparition (from the 3d), 3.
- He is unusually out of humor for five days (from the 3d), 1. [10.]
- Fretfulness, 1.
- Quarrelsomeness, 1.
- Consciousness is not disturbed, 24.
- Desire for mental labor, 1.
- Great activity in business, 1.
- Indisposition for mental work, 18.
- Disinclined to read, 18.
- The previous desire to read disappears, 18.
- The thoughts are difficult to fix upon any object; the condition of the patient yesterday was difficult to call to mind (after six hours), 18.
- Loss of ideas, 18. [20.]
- Lack of ideas, 18.
- Very great forgetfulness, 2.
HEAD
- Confusion and Vertigo.
- Confusion of the head, 11.
- Confusion of the head as if a hoop were about it the whole day, causing vertigo, 6.
- Confusion in the head the whole day (after the fourth dose), 5.
- Confusion of the head, especially in the forehead; pressure on the brows and root of the nose, frequently affecting a small place above the eyes alternately in one or the other side, 6.
- Confusion of the head, with heaviness (half an hour), 18.
- Incipient vertigo, 18.
- Commencing vertigo (first day), 19.
- Vertigo, especially at evening on lying down, with confusion of the head, 1. [30.]
- Vertigo, worse in damp weather, 2.
- Vertigo, especially if crossing a little running water, 1.
- Vertigo as soon as he steps the foot over water; the foot is drawn involuntarily in the direction of the stream, 1 . [In a strong young man who was not otherwise nervous, C. Hg.]
- Vertigo, with nausea (twelve minutes after 8 drops), 8.
- Vertigo, with tendency to fall backward (second day), (from the 6th), 3.
- Vertigo, with a feeling as if one would fall to the ground, with flushes of heat (after one and a half hours), 18.
- Vertigo, with bleeding at the nose and subsequent headache (from the fumes), 10.
- A slight vertigo, with nausea, continued inclination to vomit, without, however, actual vomiting, six minutes after 5 drops, 8.
- Dizziness in the head (after half an hour), 18.
- Dizziness in the head (second day), 18.
GENERAL SENSATIONS. [40.]
- Headache as a consequent symptom, 10.
- Violent headache throughout the whole head for two hours, 3 to 4 P.M. (third day), (from first), 2.
- Dizzy headache in the morning on waking, with itching over the whole body, especially on the chest and between the shoulders, 6.
- Toward evening in rather damp weather pains in the bones of the head, mostly in the forehead and occiput (second day), 19.
- A sensation deep in the brain soon after dinner (that was eaten with little appetite), as if apoplexy were imminent; a sensation as if he would lose his senses and have vertigo, equally severe when walking or sitting, lasting a quarter of and hour, 18.
- Slight headache, with here and there vertigo, 9.
- Headache, especially in the forehead, alternating with pain in the small of the back, 6.
- Headache and severe stitches in the lung if he attempts to breathe deeply; he is obliged to cough frequently; the pulse is full and hard, in the beginning somewhat slow, afterwards from 80 to 85 (several hours after twenty to thirty drops), 9.
- Bursting pain in the head, more on the left side (from fifth), 3.
- Pressive pain over the whole head immediately, 12. [50.]
- Dull pressive headache, 11.
- Forehead.
- He must keep the forehead wrinkled, 18.
- Confusion in the forehead, 6.
- Heaviness in the forehead, 18.
- Pain at times in the frontal bones, 18.
- Pain in the frontal bone in the evening, with stitches in the larynx, 18.
- Headache in the forehead for several days, 6.
- Pain in the forehead after dinner (second day), 1.
- Stupefied headache in the forehead worse during rest, disappearing during riding, 1.
- Pain and pressure in the forehead (soon), 18. [60.]
- Pain in the forehead, with pressure; sense of heaviness and increased warmth, 18.
- The pain over the left eye extends into the forehead, with a burning sensation and an oppressive benumbing pain, 4.
- Boring in the left side of the frontal bone, .
EYES
- Eye in General.
- Clonic spasms in the muscles of the eyes, in he face, and in the limbs, 11 . [Compare twitchings in the face and hands with violent burning and scraping in the throat, etc. All the convulsions noticed in animals are only fatal symptoms and without any value C. Hg.]
- Severe inflammation of the eyes, 11. [100.]
- The right eye becomes inflamed and dim, with lachrymation, 3.
- Pain over the right eye with photophobia (after two and a half hours), 18.
- Slight pain, frequently in and above the right eye, with some inflammation of the conjunctiva (first day), (from 1st), 2.
- Distressing burning in the eyes, with spasmodic closing of the orbicularis and increased lachrymation; confusion of the head, with severe pressure upon the chest, and cough (from inhaling the vapor), 8.
- Paroxysmal pressive pain in the eyes and root of the nose, as if extending from the interior of the brain toward the vertex, 6.
- Sticking in the eyes and in the chest, 11.
- Stitches through the left eye, 3.
- External Parts.
- Dull, pressing, stupefied pain (a dead pain) over the left eye, 4.
- Sticking sensation about the orbits, 11.
- Trickling in the left arcus superciliaris (afternoon of second), 3. [110.]
- The eyes will close, as if sleepy, 18.
- The lids are very heavy; he can only open and keep them open with great difficulty, with coldness of the lids (from the 3d), 3.
- Stitches in the lids of the left eye when reading (second day), 18.
- (*Throbbing stitches in the left upper lid, extending to the brow, the forehead, and left temple; increased by external pressure, motion, and stooping; relieved by rest; a pain which unfits him for every work), 1 . [This symptoms occurred in a young watchmaker who suffered every two or three weeks for several years; it generally continued three or four days. A very marked aggravation after Bromine X, improvement in one hour and no return after seven weeks, [°] . -Lippe.]
- Biting in the margins of the lids (one hour), 21.
- Cutting in the right inner canthus, then in the outer, .
EARS
- Pain in the right ear, appears and disappears at the same time as a tickling on the right cheek (in the afternoon of second day), 3.
- Towards evening a burning sensation in the left ear, as if a coal or hot water were in it, 4.
- Dull pain deep in the right ear, 21.
- Pressive earache, as if internal around the ear, first in the left, then in the right, in the evening before going to sleep, 12.
- Pressure as with a plug in the upper part of the left ear, followed by sticking in the tip of the tongue (morning of third day), 18. [140.]
- Sharp stitches behind the left ear (one hour), 21.
- Stitches deep in the right ear, 18.
- Stitches deep in the right ear, with heat in the whole ear and great sensitiveness of the head to cold air (second day), 19.
- Stitches in the right ear (one hour), 18.
- Stitches deep in the left ear, 21.
- Throbbing in the ears, 1.
- Tickling in the right levator auris, behind the right ear, on the lobule of the left ear, relieved by scratching (from the 8th), 3.
- Tickling on the margin of the right ear (from the 7th), 3.
- Noise of distant rushing in the ears, 18.
- Continued rush in the right ear, 18. [150.]
- Ringing in the right ear as if full of bells, 5.
- Constant roaring in the ears, worse in the left (from first to third day), 1.
- Roaring in the ears, and in the morning the right ear feels closed (fourth day), 19.
NOSE
- Objective and Discharges.
- Some twitchings in the right side of the nose (first day), 3.
- Severe inflammatory affection of the mucous membrane of the nose, fauces, and respiratory organs, has been noticed since taking Bromine, also palpitation of the heart, frequently, at times when walking, at times on rising from chair, 18.
- Swelling and pain in the left side of the nose on pressing it, as if a boil were forming (from the 3d), 2.
- Ulceration in the left nostril like crust, with tingling under it (second day), 3.
- Crusts in the right nostril, second day; crusts in the nostrils, especially in the right, in the morning of third day, 3.
- Much mucus in the nose, sometimes with streaks of blood, in the afternoon (second day), 18.
- Much tough white mucus, mostly in the right nostril; sometimes pieces of though yellow mucus in both nostrils (second day), 10. [160.]
- Yellowish mucus from the nose, and yellowish expectoration, 18.
- The nose is stopped, by mucus (fifth day), 19.
- Stopped nose, scanty mucus (one hour), 18.
- Stoppage of the nose, together with fluent coryza, with lachrymation of the right eye, 3.
- Sneezing, 18.
- Sneezing (first day), 19.
- Sneezing a few times, 18, 19.
- Sneezing several times (after four hours), 18.
- Sneezing frequently, 18.
- Violent shattering sneezing, followed immediately by stoppage of the nose (from 5th), 3. [170.]
- Much sneezing, which is frequently repeated (after several days); nasal mucus is secreted in large quantities, especially in the posterior portion of the nares; at times the mucus is very watery, mixed with streaks of blood; at other times there is obstinate dryness in the nose, 18.
- Coryza for two days, 18.
- Coryza with stoppage of the right nostril (from 8th), 3.
- Severe coryza, whereby the right nostril is stopped and sore throughout (evening of second day), 3.*
BROMIUM. FACE. [200.]
- Pale color of the face soon after eight drops, 8.
- Hot unpleasant sensation in the face, especially below the nose, tickling-smarting as from cobwebs, especially on moving the nose , together with fluent coryza and lachrymation of the right eye (from 5th), 3.
- Sensation in the cheeks, more in the right, afterwards in the left (first day), (from 30th); also in the left (from 7th), 3.
- Tension in the left cheek extending to the lower jaw, at times with pressive pain extending into the left ear (second day), (from 3d), 1.
- Tickling on the left cheek and left side of the head (from 7th), 2.
- Tickling on the left malar bone, afternoon (second day), (from 8th), 3.
- Tickling on the right cheek relieved by scratching (from 8th), 2.
- Tickling crawling in the middle of the left cheek, first day, more in the left cheek (second day), 3.
- Pain in the left zygoma, and stitches in the ear, then the same pain in the right side, 3.
- Pain in the left zygoma in the evening, then stitching in the left ear, then pain in the right zygoma (from 7th), 3. [210.]
- Pain in the upper lip as if it were bruised, and in this place, extending from the right corner of the mouth, several yellowish spots as large as the head of a pin, which seem to lie beneath the epithelium and contain a yellowish fluid; the sensitiveness of the part is not great, 18.
- Burning of the upper lip, which therewith feels very smooth (from 3d), 3.
- A momentary sensation as if the middle part of the upper lip and the neighboring portion of the nose were stretched, 21.
- Soreness of the upper lip, with coryza and long-continued desquamation of it (from 3d), 3.
- Tickling in the upper part of the right side of the upper lip; disappears on slight scratching, but returns again (from 8th), 3.
- Tickling in the right corner of the mouth, afternoon (second day), (from 7th and 30th), 3.
- *Slight swelling of the articulation of the left jaw, with cracking in it when chewing; swelling and hardness of the left parotid , which is warm to touch; rosy red swelling of the tonsils and difficult swallowing; tension and pressure in the throat, when swallowing and when not; the pain in the throat is especially increased when swallowing fluids; hawking up mucus, . [In a seven-year-old girl two weeks after a normal attack of the measles; improvement began in nine hours from the dose of Bromine X, and the whole disappeared within four days. -Lippe.]
MOUTH
- Teeth and Gums.
- A hollow tooth seems too long when biting, 1.
- The teeth become very blunt and remain so far some time, although he had taken two swallows of water immediately after it, 18.
- Pain in the teeth of the left side, 1.
- Pain in a hollow tooth of the right side, and in the left upper eye teeth (second day), (from 6th), 3.
- A painful sensation in the left side of the upper jaw in a hollow tooth which was never painful before, as if toothache would develop, 18.
- A peculiar sensation of commencing pain in the left side of the upper jaw; appears several times without being caused by pressing or touching the teeth, 18.
- Toothache, especially in a hollow tooth of the left side of the lower jaw; the anterior half of the hollow tooth pains as if sore when touched, and seems to be loose, 1.
- Drawings in some hollow teeth on either side, 18.
- Long-continued dull aching in a hollow tooth, 18. [230.]
- Stitching pain, at first from the forehead to the lower jaw, and hence into a hollow tooth, with throbbing pain in it, 6.
- Sensitiveness of a hollow tooth to cold water (one hour), 18.
- Throbbing beneath a hollow tooth, 1.
- External pressure relieves the toothache, 1.
- The gum pains in the morning (from 5th), 2.
- Tongue and Mouth in General.
- Inflammation of the tongue (in half an hour), 24.
- Pimples on the posterior portion of the right side of the tongue, 2.
- The tongue cannot be protruded (in four hours), 24.
- Dry sensation on the tongue, 18.
- Burning as from pepper under the tongue, 21. [240.]
- Burning and sticking on the under surface of the tongue, 21.
- Sticking on the tip of the tongue, and afterward suddenly disappearing tickling in it (from 5th), 3.
- Sharp stitches in the tip of the tongue, 21.
- Inflammation of the whole buccal cavity (in half an hour), .
THROAT
- In General.
- The throat is stiff and painful on turning the head, on the left side, 4.
- In the morning, the throat is stiff, so that she cannot turn the head, 5.
- A very acrid burning extending from the tongue to the stomach; on account of which he becomes nauseated, has great inclination to vomit, the mouth becomes filled with saliva, respiration difficult and somewhat painful (from 20 to 30 drops), 9.
- Sticking in the throat, 18.
- Stitches in the throat, with lachrymation and flow of thin saliva, 21.
- Stitches near the hyoid bone, with secretion of thin saliva; afterwards coldness in the tip of the tongue, with flow of saliva, 18. [280.]
- The throat is very sore and raw (second day), (from 6th), 3.
- Scraping in the throat, 18.
- Scraping and frequent hawking of scanty mucus from the throat, 18.
- Scraping and sticking in the throat, lasting two hours, 18.
- Scraping in the throat and a rough deep voice continued for an hour (soon after taking), 18.*
- Feeling of rawness in the throat, with severe stitches and tickling in the larynx, lachrymation of the eyes, and a feeling as if the larynx were laced together, in the evening (second day), 21.
- Fauces.
- Chronic inflammation of the fauces, with a dry sensation, was aggravated (from the 1st), 2.
- Inflammation of the fauces and uvula, with dry cough, caused by irritation of the elongated uvula, especially severe in the morning; yellow thick nasal mucus, streaked with some blood, without sneezing or blowing of the nose, both of which conditions are usually very severe, with coryza, lasting some days, and disappearing gradually (fifth day), 18.
- Fauces and uvula are red, 18.
- Fauces dark-red, the tonsils covered with much mucus, scraping-sticking sensation of rawness, some swelling of the tonsils; repeated after several days (soon after taking), 18. [290.]
- Feeling as if a small body were in the fauces, which caused hawking, 18.
- Unpleasant puckered sensation in the fauces, followed by burning and sensation as if sore, .
STOMACH
- Appetite and Thirst.
- Appetite neither increased nor diminished while taking it (for sixteen days), 9.
- Good appetite and digestion; embonpoint increases (in provers of large daily doses), 13.
- Diminished appetite, 11.
- Not much appetite (fifth and sixth days), 26.
- Little appetite, 19. [310.]
- Very little appetite the whole day, 18.
- No appetite, 18.
- Desire for acids, which aggravate the symptoms and cause diarrhœa, 1.
- Aversion to the customary tobacco-smoking; it causes nausea and vertigo, 1.
- Thirst, 11.
- Aversion to drinking cold water, 1.
- Eructations and Hiccough.
- Eructations shortly after taking it (from the 8th), 3.
- Empty eructations, 18.
- Empty tasteless eructations (first day), 19. [320.]
- Eructations of tasteless air (from 3d), 3.
- Eructations taste of bromine (soon), 18.
- Empty eructations, with taste of bromine, 18.
- Eructations like foul eggs (from five to seven days), (from 3d), 1.
- Frequent eructations, with vomiting, whereby much mucus is thrown up (after 5 drops), 8.
- Many eructations of tasteless air and much rumbling of air in the abdomen, 21.
- Remarkably frequent empty eructations and much rumbling in the abdomen, 18.
- Frequent regurgitations, 24.
- Hiccough (2 drops tinct.), 23.
- Nausea and Vomiting.
- Qualmishness in the pit of the stomach, with empty eructations, 18. [330.]
- Nausea, 20.
- Nausea (2 drops tinct.), 23.
- Slight nausea, 6, 18.
ABDOMEN
- Hypochondriac and Umbilical Regions.
- Sensation as of a ball in the left hypochondrium (after six hours), 1.
- Pain in the left hypochondrium, 20.
- Pressure upon the hypochondria is painful, 18.
- Violent cutting in both hypochondria, deep, extending to the side of the navel, especially on the left side, with a sort abdomen, increased by pressure, 21.
- Transient stitches in the hypochondria from right to left, 18. [370.]
- Sharp stitches in the left hypochondrium, 18, 20.
- Sharp stitches in the right and left hypochondria, 19.
- Stitches in the left hypochondrium, 21.
- Sharp stitches in the left hypochondrium, 21.
- Sensitiveness of the hypochondrium and epigastric region to pressure, with flow of saliva, 18.
- Pulsation in the right hypochondrium in the evening, 20.
- Pain in the liver, 18.
- Decided pain in the region of the liver, especially on pressure and riding, with great distension and hardness of the right hypochondrium, and a feeling as if a hard body were sinking down there; lasts from ten to twelve hours (after three days), 18.
- Stitches shooting from the liver toward the navel, 18.
- Dull pain in the region of the spleen, extending towards the spinal column, 18. [380.]
- The pain in the abdomen extends from the stomach to the navel, and below the short ribs (first day), 19.
- Severe pain to the left of the navel, deep, increased by pressure, 21.
- Pain in the region of the navel, increased by drawing in the walls of the abdomen, 18.
- Cutting pain in the region of the navel, after eating, increased by pressure (after three and a half hours), 18.
- Sticking pain on the left side from the navel to the inner surface of the wall of the chest, increased by pressure, morning and evening, and in the evening cuttings deep in the region of the navel, increased by pressure, lasting half an hour, with stitches extending towards the rectum, to the neck of the bladder, and along the right spermatic cord, 18.
RECTUM AND ANUS
- Painless hæmorrhoids (third day), 19.
- Soft painless hæmorrhoid as large as a nut (second day), 18.
- With the diarrhœa of black fæces, blind hæmorrhoids , which pain severely, which he had had for years but were never so painful. They disappeared after nux and sulphur, but returned in fourteen days very painful, and continued for a longer time; cold and warm washing aggravated them; nux and sulphur did not relieve; capsicum and the use of saliva relieved, 4.*
- Very frequent but ineffectual anal tenesmus (in three hours), 24. [420.]
- Some fine stitches in the anus, 18.
- Tickling in the anus (first day), 3.
- Much itching-crawling in the anus, as if something living were moving in it, 21.
STOOL
- Severe urging to stool, with which much more wind than fæces is passed at 2 P.M., following the natural morning stool, 20.
- Frequent desire for stool, with passage of flatus and stitches in the anus, 18.
- Regular evacuation, with slight tenesmus, 8.
- Diarrhœa of black fæces and painful hæmorrhoids (latest action), 4.
- Violent diarrhœa relieved by black coffee, 9.
- *Diarrhœa after every meal ceases, but returns after eating oysters, [°], 2.
- Stool in the beginning more constipated than usual, then two stools in each day thinner and more copious than usual, 12. [430.]
- Repeated pasty stools (after 144 drops taken within ninth day), 9.
- Several pasty stool throughout the day, twice at night; from daily doses (eleventh day), 9.
- No action on the intestines from 10 or even 20 drops, if it was omitted the following day; but pasty stools from a dose of 30 drops, 9.
- Soft stool after he had had the usual one in the morning, 18.
- Obliged to rise twice at night on account of thin stools if he took it after the morning hours (from 20 drops daily), (fourth and fifth days), 9.
- Thin, diarrhœa-like stool an hour and a half after 13 drops; this is repeated four times till the next morning, 9.
- Diarrhœa-like stool, bright-yellow, preceded by cutting and rumbling in the abdomen (fifty to seventh day), (from 3d), 1.
- Mucous, somewhat diarrhœa-like stool, with much, the second and following days (from 1st), 2.
- Thin fluid stool, 12.
- Soft stool, with disappearance of the hæmorrhoids (third day), 18. [440.]
- Stool-like sheep-dung, with pressure in the stomach and abdomen, 6.
- Stool in the forenoon hard, tough, brown, and glistening; it breaks to pieces like sheep-dung, 6.
- Hard stool (second to third day), 18, 19.
URINARY ORGANS
- Pain in the region of the bladder and in its sides, with desire to urinate (after half an hour), 18.
- Some clear drops of mucus flow from the urethra (on different days), 18.
- Burning in the urethra after urinating, 1.
- Pressure in the prostate gland when walking (third day), 19.
- Some fine stitches in the orifice of the urethra, 18.
- Stitches in the urethra (fifth day), 19.
- Some slight stitches in the urethra (half an hour), 18. [450.]
- Some stitches in the urethra extending towards its orifice, 18.
- Stitches in the end of the urethra (fourth day), 19.
- Pulsation in the urethra behind the testicles, 19.
- Frequent calls to urinate, 18.
- Renewed desire to urinate, although he had urinated a short time before (after half an hour), 18.
- The desire to urinate continues, with tickling sensation in the tip of the urethra, 18.
- Very little desire to urinate, 18.
- Dribbling of urine after urinating (from third to tenth days), 1.
- After urinating some drops of urine continue to flow, which burn very much, 1.
- Increased secretion of urine (2 drops tinct.), 23. [460.]
- The secretion of urine seemed somewhat increased, 9.
- Diminished urine, 1.
- Urine scanty (first day), 19.
- Urine scanty and dark, 18.
- Urine scanty and dark (second day), 19.
- Urine very scanty and dark during the whole day, 18.
- Urine scanty, dark, and turbid, with a red sediment, 18.
- Scanty, very dark, and very turbid urine for several days; it deposits a whitish sediment, adhering to the vessel, 18.
- Urine diminished, dark at times, with a red coating on the vessel (during the whole proving), 18.
- The scanty urine, which is passed after much desire, is clear and darker than usual, 18. [470.]
SEXUAL ORGANS
- Male.
- Erections in the morning, 1.
- Erections in the morning from 3 to 8 o'clock; for several days (from fumes), 2.
- Pressure in the right spermatic cord, 21.
- Pressive-pinching pain in the penis, more on the right side, in the evening (eleventh day), after repeated doses, 3.
- Stitches in the glans and in the sides of the dorsum of the penis, 21.
- Stitches in the glans penis, 21.
- Long stitches extending through the penis to the glans, 21.
- Swelling of the left testicle, with sore pain, 1. [480.]
- Increased firmness of the testicles (from 8th), 3.
- Coldness of the left testicle, 1.
- Increased sexual desire (fourth day).
- Early emission during coition, 1.
- Emissions the third night in a man who had none for three years, 1.
- Emissions for two nights in succession, 3.
- Female.
- Loud passage of flatus from the vagina (from fifth to eighteenth day), 1.*
- Sore pain in the pudenda, 1.
- Before menstruation pain in the back, feeling of weakness and want of appetite, 1.
- On accession and during menstruation frontal headache; a feeling on stooping as if the eyes would fall out, 1. [490.]
- On the appearance of menstruation headache, 1.
- Menstruation appeared too early and profuse, 1.
- Menstruation appeared in twenty-one days in one who menstruated regularly, 1.
- Menstruation was delayed when she took Bromine 30th on the appearance of the usual forebodings, B., 2.
- *(Menstruation, which she had every six weeks, passed without any pain; she used to suffer every time after it had continued a few hours from the most violent sticking cramps, which continued from six to twelve hours, so that she could scarcely remain lying, followed by sore pain in the abdomen), [°], 2.
- Clear blood, with the menses, .
RESPIRATORY APPARATUS
- Larynx, Trachea, and Voice.
- Much hawking of scanty mucus from the larynx, 20.
- *Cold sensation in the larynx, with a cold feeling when inspiring , after breakfast; better after shaving, 12.
- Constriction in the larynx, 18.*
- Sticking constriction in the larynx, 18.* [500.]
- Pain, as if crushed, in the left side of the larynx, 18.
- Every time on swallowing saliva a stitch in the posterior portion of the larynx, with a feeling of contraction, 18.*
- Stitches, with pressure in the larynx, 18.
- Stitches, with itching in the larynx (fourth night), 19.
- Severe stitching in the larynx, with lachrymation (after five minutes), 18.
- *Scraping and rawness in the larynx provoking cough, 20.
- *Scraping in the larynx provoking dry cough, in the evening (first day), 18.
- Tickling in the larynx, followed by cough, 18.*
- Frequent tickling in the larynx with dry cough, which is immediately followed by tickling again; during the cough pain in the left side, extending inward from the nipple, 18.
- Tickling in the larynx, with irritation to cough; constrictive sensation deep in the throat, and dry cough ; coppery taste on the back part of the palate; spasmodic sensation extending downward from the throat, with dry cough in the evening, and scraping in the throat (first day), 21. [510.]
- Dryness in the trachea, 11.
- Contracted sensation internally in the trachea, or a feeling as if the pit of the throat were pressed against the trachea ; it lasts two days (from 6th), 12.*
- Tickling in the trachea on inspiring, which causes a cough, 1.*
CHEST
- In General.
- Swelling of the mammary glands, 1.
- Congestion to the chest, 11.
- Peculiar sensation of weakness and exhaustion in the chest, 11. [560.]
- The pain in the chest continues; is especially noticed when coughing, 18.
- Pain under the ribs, especially on pressure, more in the right side, 18.
- Burning in the chest, with subsequent sensation of heat, only gradually disappearing, with ineffectual efforts to vomit, 11.
- Tension in the chest, 1.
- Slight feeling of fulness in the chest and throat, increasing towards noon, continuing till evening, and feeling as if a soft substance were between the lungs and the breast-bone (from 6th), 2.
- A sensation of constriction of the chest impedes respiration and is very unpleasant, with a dry tickling cough the whole of the first day and the following days, lasting only an hour (from 1st), 2.
- Paralytic drawing pain through the chest and toward the shoulder-blade and arm (left), 3.
- Feeling of anxiety in the chest, with difficult breathing, 18.
- Pressure from the chest at times, 18.
- Slight pressure upon the chest on deep inspiration, 11. [570.]
- Pressure in the upper part of the chest, 20.
- Pressure in the upper part of the chest, with difficult breathing (first day), 19.
- Slight pressure in the upper part of the chest, as if breathing was difficult, 18.
- Pressure several times in the upper part of the chest, with oppressed breathing soon after taking, 19.
- Severe oppression, cough, headache, and vertigo (from the fumes), 2.
- Sticking pain here and there in the walls of the chest, uninfluenced by breathing, 20.
- Stitches in the upper part of the chest, with difficult breathing and sensation of distension (first day), 19.
- Sides and Sternum.
- Pain in the right lung (from 3d), 3.
- A pain in the right side of the chest, gradually extending towards the back, lasting some hours (first day), (from 1st), .
HEART AND PULSE
- Palpitation of the heart, 18.
- Palpitation perceptible in the region of the heart, which is noticed even without laying the hand upon it, together with forcible breathing (after three hours), 18.
- Violent palpitation of the heart in the evening, so that she cannot lie upon the left side, 3.
- Palpitation when walking, without cause (second day), 18. [610.]
- Slight oppression around the heart and palpitation, at the same time the inspired air seems very cold, with tendency to yawn (from 3d), 3.
- Pulse rather slow and hard during the two provings with large daily doses, 9.
- Pulse very full, not accelerated, 10.
- Pulse more frequent, 18.
- Full, hard, at first slow, afterwards accelerated pulse, 11.
- Pulse 64 to 70 fifteen minutes after five drops; after thirty minutes again normal, 8.
- Pulse 70 after eight drops; in fifteen minutes only 62, 8.
NECK AND BACK
- A gland as large as a pea on each side od the neck (second day), 18.
- Twitching in the left latissimus dorsi (from 8th), 3.
- 10 A.M., aching pain at inner border of left scapula up to neck, on moving left arm or sitting leaning to left (fifth day); it extended half way down upper arm; worse on moving arm (seventh day); nearly gone, but worse in evening (ninth day), 26. [620.]
- Boring in the spinous processes of different vertebræ at various times (fifth day), 18.
- Pressure in the left dorsal muscles, 21.
- Wandering pressive pain in the dorsal muscles below the shoulder-blade, 18.
- Tension in the right lumbar and dorsal muscles, increased by moving these parts, 21.
- Sticking-tickling in the spine, more towards the right side (from 7th), 3.
- Sore pain in the small of the back, unchanged on rising or on motion, 1.
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL
- Great stiffness in all the limbs at 11 A.M., better in the afternoon, 5.
- Pains in the limbs, afterwards alternating with chilliness and heat, 4.
- Compression in the upper arm, in the forepart of both knee-joints, 20.
- Crawling in the fingers and short twitches in the muscles of the foot and the region of the knee (after a quarter of an hour); repeated from time to time; slightly perceptible the next morning; it appeared a quarter of an hour before colic and rumbling in the bowels, 13.
UPPER EXTREMITIES. [630.]
- Great restlessness and jactitation of the arms (in three hours), 24.
- Great loss of power and weakness of the arms, 1.
- Weakness in the left arm, 1.
- The whole left arm feels paralyzed, 4.
- Constriction in the upper extremities, 11.
- Drawing in the right arm from above towards the hand, together with a paralytic sensation in the left arm, 2 . [In a person who had disease of the heart, he often experienced the last sensation, with palpitation and sounds in the heart which denoted changes in the valves of the left side of the heart. C. Hg.]
- Pain in the right shoulder (first day), 6.
- Pain below the shoulder (from 5th), 3.
- Painful paralytic sensation in the left shoulder, soon disappearing; afterward paralytic pain in the right shoulder-joint (from 8th), 3.
- Sensation of heat in the forepart of the right shoulder-joint, 21. [640.]
- When walking in the street a severe rheumatic, dull, constricting pain; it extends into the right shoulder and thence into the arm, where it disappears (second day), (from 1st), 2.
- Pressure in the right shoulder-joint, 21.
- Pressure and weariness in the left shoulder-joint, 21.
- Sharp stitches in the right axilla, 18.
- Burning stitches on the top of the right shoulder-joint, 21.
- Bruised pain in left shoulder, afterwards in the right elbow-joint, 18.
- Cracking in the left elbow-joint, 2.
- Sticking in the inner condyle of the right elbow, 18.
- In the afternoon a paralyzed feeling in the left arm, as after a blow, on holding the left arm bent, when walking, together with ill-humor, 12.
- Sensation in the forearms, from the wrists to a little below the elbows, as if they were in a vice; afterwards a sticking pain in the fingers, which extends towards the head (seventy-five minutes after ten drops), 13. [650.]
- Tearing in the arms in the evening, especially in the hands and fingers, 6.
- Pressure in the left wrist, 21.
- Violent pain in the right hand; once it shoots into the middle finger, with throbbing pain, .
LOWER EXTREMITIES
- Weakness of the left leg, 2.
- Paralytic sensation in the right leg, 3.
- In the evening on going out a throbbing pain in both legs, especially in the right, with stiffness in the limb as far as the foot, and with stiffness and pain in the right great toe and in the middle toes, 5.
- Stiffness in front of left thigh on walking (seventh day), 26.
- Twitching in the inner side of the right knee (from 8th), 3.
- Pain in the right knee and downward, with a feeling of heaviness in the right leg, 18.
- Pain in the left knee and hip, worse on motion (second morning), 12.
- Rheumatic pain in the left knee (from 5th), 3.
- Burning pain in the left knee, 4. [680.]
- Pressure in the left knee, 21.
- In the right knee a dull pressive pain in the bone, 18.
- Pressive pain in the bend of the right knee (from 5th), 3.
- Pressure in the forepart of the left knee, 21.
- Throbbing in the forepart of the right knee while sitting, lasting several minutes, 18.
- A pain in the forepart of the leg, extending to the right side, like gnawing or sawing, sudden, severe, and transient, 21.
- Dull pain deep in the left, then in the right leg, while sitting, 18.
- Dull pressive, fatiguing pain in the bones of the left leg (second day), 18.
- Pressure deep in the left leg, 21.
- Pressure in the head of the right tibia, 21. [690.]
- Boring in the left tibia (half an hour), 20.
- Boring pain in the right tibia (after nine hours), 18.
- Boring in the right tibia several times, 19.
- Boring in the lower part of the right tibia, 18.
- Violent boring pains at times in the left tibia, 19.
- Pressure in the right tibia, 21.
- Pressure with a sensation of weariness deep in the left leg, which extends through the left ankle into the foot, 21.
- Pressure in the right internal malleoli, .
GENERALITIES
- Embonpoint increased, 13.
- If introduced into a cut it becomes unhealthy-looking, and a green decay forms about it, with an offensive odor, 11.
- Cracking in the joints, in the morning after rising (second day), 3.
- In the afternoon the throat, neck, arms, and legs become stiff, so that she is afraid that she would not be able to walk, with a headache extending from the occiput towards the forehead, shooting and dragging as if everything would press out in the forepart of the head, 5.
- General trembling (first and second day), (from 3d), 1.
- Feeling of weakness, 18.
- Great weakness and loss of power, 1. [720.]
- If she wakes at night, a sensation of trembling weakness as though she could not rise (sixth day), 1.
- Weak and sleepy the whole afternoon and evening (second day), 18.
- Great weakness after breakfast as if bruised; she is scarcely able to make the bed, 5.
- Great weakness when walking, which compels her to sit down, 6.
- Great exhaustion; she cannot work any more, and must lie down, 5.
- The whole body is very much affected and weak, continuing a long time after all the other symptoms had disappeared, 5.
- Great indisposition, 2, 3.
- Physical and mental indisposition during the whole proving, 18.
- Sensation as of fasting; feeling of heaviness in the head, with some stiffness in the muscles of the neck, 18.
- Sensation as if the flesh were loose and bruised on touch, especially on the left side of the chest, 1. [730.]
- The right side suffers most, 5.
- The whole left side is most affected, 4.
- Many symptoms on the left side, 1.
- A glass of stimulants did not relieve him, 3.
SKIN
- Colors the skin yellow, 15.
- It destroys the skin very rapidly, with severe burning and consequent inflammation, 15.
- Several small red spots on the back of the left hand, more towards the thumb and index finger; they sometimes itch, sometimes not, soon disappearing, and then again reappearing; several of them change to small vesicles, which dry up within twelve to twenty-four hours, and leave a small red spot, 21.
- Papulous eruption above the right inner canthus; pains on touch; a watery discharge on pricking (from the 3d), 13.
- Pimples on the nose, and at the same time on the back part of the right side of the tongue, 2.
- Pimples on the right ring finger, on the ulnar side of the third phalanx, without pain, only disappearing after eight weeks (first day), 3. [740.]
- On the anus a small pimple, painful when rubbed, which he never had before (after twenty-four hours), 18.
- The pimple by the anus is not a hæmorrhoid, but is seated directly in the suture just before the anus, and can be felt with the finger as a pimple seated on or beneath the skin; it pains only on strong pressure, but more on rubbing, even with soft paper, 18.
- Boils on the arms and in the face (later action), 5 . [Noak and Trinks have furuncles, but in a case in which they were produced from the bromides. The thirtieth potency, however, is decisive. It is now seen that they are produced by Bromine itself. C. Hg.)
- Severe cutting in the skin of the ball of the right great toe, 18.
- Stitches in the skin on the malar bone, 21.
- Stitches in the skin on the larynx, 21.
- Feeling as if something living in the skin, especially in the arms and legs, 1.
- Slight prickling in the skin, with a sensation of warmth, changing to a burning, and dryness of the part after external use, 11.
- Tickling over whole body, easily relieved by scratching, 3.
- Tickling on the right side of the forehead, on the left side of the occiput (from the 8th and also from the 5th), 3. [750.]
- Tickling on the right shoulder (from 8th), 3.
- Tickling on the legs, 3.
- Tickling on the outer side of the left thigh (in the afternoon of second day), .
SLEEP AND DREAMS
- Yawning, early in the morning; great yawning the whole day; full inspiration causes yawning (from 3d), 3.
- Continued yawning, with the respiratory troubles (twelfth day), (after repeated doses), 3.*
- Continual yawning the whole day, with difficulty of breathing (from 30th), 3.* [760.]
- Yawning and heat in the face and nose (from 6th), 3.
- Very sleepy (from 3d), 3.
- *Very much inclined to sleep, 18.
- Great inclination to fall asleep, 18.
- Even after eight weeks, irresistible sleepiness during the day and also the whole evening; every exertion to throw it off is ineffectual, 4.
- Great sleepiness and weakness; can scarcely keep on the legs; great inclination to side down, yet he feels better when moving about, 3.
- In the evening, when writing, almost irresistible sleepiness, with confusion of the head; it seems as though the scalp were too tight, or as though a band were tied around the head, with some pain in the shoulder, 4.
- When reading in the evening, he became sleepy at an unusual time, but as soon as he put out the light and tries to sleep he cannot; he lies awake for hours without cause (after the fumes), 2.
- Very sound sleep (two nights), 18.
- Prolonged unrefreshing sleep in the morning, 1. [770.]
- In the morning he sleeps very long, as if stupid; is unusually sluggish; he will not rise until 10 o'clock (from fumes), 2.
- Insufficient sleep in the morning; he always falls asleep again, and when he wakes it seems almost impossible for him to rise (in four persons), (after the 30th), 1.
- Decided sopor at night, early in the evening and late in the morning; one is obliged to make great exertion to rise, 18.
- Sleep very light; he is easily awakened (two nights), 18.
- He awakes bright in the morning, at 5 o'clock (curative action), 4.
- Wide awake in the evening, cannot sleep, 1.
- Starting in sleep, 1.
- Startings and twitchings in sleep, 2.
- She lies asleep with her mouth open, .
FEVER
- Chilliness.
- Sensitiveness to cold air, especially when walking; immediately a cold sensation runs through the back into the legs, 18.
- Sensitiveness to cold air, and chilliness on motion in the evening (second day), 18. [790.]
- Sensation of coldness at times (after one and a half hours), 18.
- Very chilly, with confusion of the head; with headache extending into the left eye (from 5th), 3.
- Shivering through the whole body; very chilly, with external coldness, which is somewhat relieved by the warmth of the stove (from 3d), 3.
- Violent shiverings, with yawning and stretching , as in intermittent fever, which she had ten years before; with this the head is confused; drawing in the left tibia down to the ankle, whereby the foot becomes quite cold; this is repeated every other day, as a chilliness with cold feet (from 30th), 2.
- Coldness in the back and limbs in a warm room, at 3 P.M. (second day), 18.
- Creepings down the back (from 5th), 3.
- Creeping coldness over the back, 18.
- Now and then coldness over the back, with cold hands and feet (after one hour), 18.
- Cold drawings down the back (from 8th), 3.
- Cold shivering drawing down the back (from 8th), 3. [800.]
- Chilliness in the back when sitting, several times (after five hours), 18.
- Hands cold and moist, 18.*
- Cold tips of the fingers, 18.
- Cold, exceedingly unpleasant drawing, through the whole body, with rapid alternations of warmth, at first in the left hand and side (from 8th), 3.
- Heat.
- Sensation of internal burning; it seems as if she were in a hot vapor, though without sweat, in the forenoon, 5.
- Burning sensation in the whole body, while performing moderate manual labor; a clammy sweat breaks out in the evening, twelve hours after the burning in the ear (from 80th), 4.
- At 9 A.M., an internal burning; afterward it seems beneath the skin an flesh, .
CONDITIONS
- Aggravation.
- ( Morning ), On waking, dizzy, headache, etc.; pain in forehead; gum pains; fasting, water tastes salt; throat stiff; cough; erections ; dry cough; difficulty of breathing; pain in right chest; after rising, cracking of the joints; 9 o'clock, internal burning.
- ( Forenoon ), Pain in forehead; 11.30 o'clock, cramp in stomach; 11 o'clock, stiffness in limbs.
- ( Afternoon ), Blood-streaked mucus from nose; tickling on malar bone; hoarseness; when walking, feeling in left arm, etc.; throat etc., become stiff.
- ( Toward evening ), In rather damp weather, pains of head; burning in left ear; scraping, etc., in fauces; nausea.
- ( Evening ), Apprehensiveness, etc.; vertigo; pain in frontal bones, etc.; when sitting, reading, vanishing of sight; before going to sleep, earache; cutting in both hypochondria; pulsation in right hypochondrium; cutting in left side; pain in penis; scraping in larynx; pain in right chest; palpitation; tearing in anus; on going out, pain in legs; when stepping, pain in ball of foot; on motion, chilliness.
- ( Evening till midnight ), *Symptoms in general.
- ( Acids ), Aggravate the symptoms and cause diarrhœa.
- ( Bending shoulders forward ), Pains in left side of chest.
- ( Lying bent ), Pain in left side.
- ( After breakfast ), Sensation in larynx, etc.
- ( Coughing ), Pain in forehead; pain in chest.
- ( Crossing running water ), Vertigo.
- ( Damp weather ), Vertigo.
- ( Drawing in abdominal walls ), Pain in region of navel.
- ( After dinner ), Apoplectic sensation; pain in forehead.
- ( After eating ), Pain in region of navel.
- ( Hawking up mucus ), Pain in throat.
- ( In heat of sun ), Headache.
SUPPLEMENT: BROMIUM. Authority.
27 , Heimerdinger, die Wirkung des Broms. und ein Brom. Präparate, Inaug. Diss., Tübingen, 1838.
- Took in morning fasting, 5 drops in 1/2 ounce distilled water; after an hour there was a slight nauseous reminiscence of the taste of the drug. At another time took 8 drops in 1 ounce water, holding the nose while swallowing; rough cough. After an hour repeated eructations. The appetite was diminished. The disgusting taste of the drug lasted all day. In the afternoon there was thirst, 27.