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, 18.
- Severe boring in the left side of the frontal bone, 21.
- Pressure in the left front bone, then in the right, 21.
- Pressure in the frontal bone with confusion in the forehead, 21.
- Long-continued pressure in the frontal bones, in the room, not in the open air (half an hour), 20.
- Pressure in the forehead, 18.
- Pressure in the right frontal eminence, 18.
- Pressure in the forehead above the eyes, 18. [70.]
- Pressure in the forehead, with heaviness in the head, with disinclination to think, 18.
- Pressive pain in the forehead, 18.
- Pressive pain in the forehead (second day), 19.
- Pressive pain in the forehead several times, soon disappearing, 19.
- Dull pressive pain in the forehead, 18.
- A hot pressive headache in the forehead extending inward; throbbing and extending to the maxillary bone, at 9 A.M., 6.
- Pressive headache, as if digging over the eyes, 5.
- Pressive pain in the forehead, deep in the eyes, with sensitiveness of the eyes when reading (fourth day), 19.
- Dull pressive headache in the forehead in the morning, from which the eyes become affected (thirteenth day) after repeated doses, 3.
- Pain in the forehead, as if everything would press outward, in the forenoon, 5. [80.]
- Slight pressive pain in the forehead, especially on coughing, 19.
- Tearing in the frontal bones, 18.
- Temples, Etc.
- Rather severe pressure in the bone in the left temple (after three hours), 18.
- Painful pressure in the left temple, together with a constant dizzy feeling in the head, 2.
- Pressure on the vertex, 21.
- Left-sided headache, 1.
- Pain on the left side of the head (from 5th), 3.
- Pain in the left side of the head, which extends to the left eye (from the 3d), 3.
- Headache from the left ear to the left temple, aggravated by stooping, 1.
- Slight drawing in the left side of the head (from the 8th), 3. [90.]
- Pressure in the right anterior lobe of the brain and in the right side of the nasal bone (first day), 3.
- Tearing in the right side of the cranial bones, 19.
- Stitching pain through the right side of the head (from the 3d), 3.
- Headache after drinking milk , like a severe throbbing, and a hard pulse in the left side; relieved if he lies upon the right side with his arms over his head, 12.
- Trickling-crawling in the left half of the head and on the left cheek (afternoon of second day), 3.
- Headache; heaviness in the occiput, in the heat of the sun; goes away in the shade (from the 1st), 7.
- Heat in the occiput, 18.
- Crawling beneath the skin of the occiput, 18.
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, 21.
- Severe cutting in the right inner canthus; the next day the same symptom in the left inner canthus, 18.
- Stitches in the canthi, 18.
- Stitches in the right inner canthus, 21.
- Itching above the right external canthus, relieved by scratching (from 8th), 3. [120.]
- Distended tortuous vessels in the conjunctiva bulbi of both eyes, with stitches in the lids, 18.
- Ocular conjunctiva dull and wrinkled, 24.
- Biting in the conjunctiva palp., 18.
- Increased lachrymation (from the vapor), 9.
- Lachrymation of the right eye (from 5th), 3 , etc.
- Pupils and Vision.
- Pupils normal, 24.
- A kind of vanishing of sight when sitting and reading in the evening, as if a wind before the eyes took away the power of sight (from the vapor), 2.
- Daylight is somewhat sensitive to the eyes, 18.
- Sensitiveness of the eyes to bright light, 1.
- Some photophobia, 18. [130.]
- Photophobia, with pressure on moving the eyes, 18.
- A gray point before the right eye moving up and down with the movement of the eye, on looking into the distance and also near to (one hour), 18.
- Lightnings before the eyes, 1.
- Illusions of vision; it seemed as though all kinds of things jumped up on the ground before her, 1.
- Illusions of fantasy; it seems to him as though strange persons were looking over his shoulder (from the 30th), 1 . [The provers of the last two symptoms were in different places, proved at very different times, and did not know one another's symptoms. C. Hg.]
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.*
- Continued coryza, with discharge from the right nostril, and at the same time stoppage of it (from 3d), 3.
- *Long-continued obstinate coryza, with soreness beneath the nose, and on the margin of the nose (from 5th), 3.
- Fluent coryza, in which the right nostril is more affected and more stopped, afterwards the left (from 6th), 3.*
- Fluent coryza, with frequent violent sneezing; corrosive soreness under the nose and on the margins of the nose (second day), (from 6th), 3.*
- Several drops of blood after blowing the nose (second day), 18.
- Nose-bleed after slight blowing of the nose; on the right side, 18. [180.]
- On the third morning, on blowing the nose some blood from the right nostril, 18.
- On blowing the nose, some blood from the left nostril, 18.
- Some blood from the left side of the nose on blowing it; the blood is bright red, 18.
- Nose-bleed after oppression of the chest (from fumes), 10.
- Nose bleed for twelve minutes, with relief of the chest and eye symptoms (from fumes), 8.
- Awoke with nose very cold, subjectively and objectively (second and third night), 26.
- It seemed to him as if a fluent coryza would appear, with soreness in the right nostril, as if he had pulled out some hairs; with dim eyes, and violent pain in the right ribs, and little appetite (from the fumes); the same symptoms returned afterwards, from the fumes mixed with iodine, 2.
- Pain on the right side of the tip of the nose (from the 5th), 3.
- Pain in the left compressor nasi on pressing upon it (from the 5th), 3.
- Momentary pressure in the nasal and superior maxillary bone, and in various places in the frontal bones, 20. [190.]
- Soreness in the nose, and crusts, 3.
- The whole nose is sore, and the wings of the nose swollen; a scurf forms in it, with pain and bleeding on wiping it (from 7th), 3.*
- Soreness and swollen feeling, first around the lamilla and then in the wings of the nose, then crusts; and also constant crustiness of the right nostril, which bleeds after removing it (from 7th), 3.
- Smarting beneath the right nostril (first day), 2.
- Slight crawling, at first below the left nostril, then on the right cheek (from 8th), 3.
- Tickling in the nose (half an hour), 18.
- Tickling in the nose, as if he would sneeze immediately, 21.
- Tickling in the left side of the tip of the nose (from 7th), 3.
- Tickling in the left nostril, afterwards in the right (from 8th), 3.
- Itching in the nose, with continued smell of Bromine, 18.
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, 1 . [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.]
- Boring in the right lower jaw (third day), 18.
- Very painful boring in the right lower jaw-bone, 18.
- Pressure as from a dull body in the front of the left joint of the lower jaw, but deep in extending towards the lowest fossa of the left nostril, as if in the deep in Eustachian tube; on swallowing, the motion of the superior muscles of the pharynx changes this sensation for a moment; it lasts half an hour, 21. [220.]
- Some pain on the left side of the lower jaw in a hollow tooth, which seems excited by a current of air when blowing coals, 18.
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), 24.
- Dryness in the mouth continuing half an hour, 18.
- Sensation in the mouth and pharynx as after a glass of rum, 13.
- Heat of the mouth (1/2 drop tinct.), 24.
- Heat in the mouth, œsophagus, and stomach, together with colic, 14.
- Burning sensation in the mouth, pharynx, and stomach, with pain in the abdomen, 14.
- Feeling of burning in the mouth, pharynx, and stomach; increased secretion of mucus, inclination to vomit, severe eructations and stomachache, 14. [250.]
- Burning from the mouth to the stomach, accompanied by internal heat, 11.
- Sore pain; slight smarting on the arches of the palate (second day), 2.
- Saliva and Taste.
- Increased secretion of saliva every time after taking it, 9.
- Increased secretion of saliva (from fumes), 9.
- Increased secretion of saliva; salivation, with increased mucus in the mouth and nose, 11.
- If inhaled it increased the saliva, lachrymation, nasal mucus, caused coryza, cough, slight headache here and there, and vertigo, 9, 16.
- Much thin saliva, 18.
- Much thin saliva (one hour), 18.
- Much collection of thin saliva (one hour), 21.
- Thin tasteless saliva, 18. [260.]
- Tasteless saliva, 18.
- Collection of tasteless saliva (after three-quarters of an hour), 18.
- Constrictive sensation in the orifice of the salivary glands, with flow of saliva, 18.
- Very disagreeable taste (immediately, from 40 drops tinct.), 23.
- Very nauseous, offensive taste from six drops in half an ounce of water, 9.
- Taste is very strong, peculiarly puckered, burning and offensive, 15.
- Sweetish taste in the mouth (half an hour), 21.
- Decided salty taste in the tip of the tongue for several minutes (one and a half hours), 21.
- Sour taste, 1.
- Intensely bitter taste at the tip of the tongue, without other gastric symptoms, 18. [270.]
- It leaves a strong scraping taste (13 drops in water), 9.
- Very acrid, scraping, offensive taste, or rather exciting nausea, if taken without water, 9.
- Violent burning taste immediately after taking, 18.
- Water tastes salty in the morning fasting, 1.
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, 11.
- In the fauces, at first, an unpleasant puckered sensation, followed by burning and soreness; salivation lasted a quarter of an hour, with increase of mucus in the mouth and nostrils (soon after 5 drops), 8.
- Puckering in the fauces, 11.
- Scraping in the fauces, which causes hawking, 18.
- Scraping and dryness in the fauces towards evening, 18.
- Pharynx, Œsophagus and Externals.
- Feeling of warmth, which increases to a burning, extending through the whole pharynx into the stomach, especially distressing in the pharynx (after 8 drops in an ounce of water), 8.
- Sensation of burning and scraping in the pharynx, so violent that for some minutes there are convulsive twitchings in the face and in the hands, with strong inclination to vomit and forcible empty retchings (after daily doses increased to 45 drops), 13.
- Raw, unpleasant feeling in the pharynx (immediately), 9.
- Pressure arising from the stomach into the œsophagus, 18. [300.]
- Burning in œsophagus and stomach (1/2 drop tinct.), 23.
- Swallowing is especially painful in the whole of the right side of the fauces, which is dark-red and without secretion of mucus, 18.
- Pain in the submaxillary glands of both sides (first day), 3.
- Slight pressive pain in the left submaxillary gland (second day), 3.
- Stitches in the glands at the side of the hyoid bone, 20.
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.
- Some nausea, 18.
- A times, transient nausea, 5.
- Slight sensation of nausea in the epigastric region, 18.
- Nausea toward evening, without being able to vomit; better after eating, 4.
- Nausea, hiccough, increased secretion of mucus (after 2 drops), 14.
- Nausea, eructations, roughness in the stomach, mouth full of saliva, slow pulse, and congestion of the chest, 14.
- Great inclination to vomit, increased discharge of mucus, and profuse eructations, 14. [340.]
- (Exceedingly offensive vomiting, suddenly, after allopathic doses, which were given to a patient to remove indurations in the stomach. After persistent continuance of the drug a constant retching set in, exhausting the patient even to dying; it could not be relieved by the usual methods; Lachesis, X, relieved it at once, prolonged the patient's life, and enabled him to go home and die comfortably), 2.
- Stomach.
- Inflammation of the stomach; suggillations in the stomach like ulceration, 14.
- Feeling of emptiness in the stomach, 1.
- Emptiness in the stomach; better after eating, for which, however, he had no longings, 12.
- Feeling of heaviness in the stomach, 11.
- Warmth in the stomach, with confusion in the forehead (first day), 19.
- Warmth and burning in the stomach, and flow of saliva, 11.
- Warmth in the region of the stomach, 18.
- Warmth in the stomach, immediately, 18.
- Warmth in the stomach, nausea, empty eructations, increase of saliva, with pressive heaviness in the forehead, with sensitiveness of the eyes; continued for a long time, 18. [350.]
- Slight attacks of pain at stomach (40 drops tinct.), 23.
- Violent pain in the epigastric region, worse upon pressure, relieved by bending forward, together with a distended abdomen and flushes of heat starting from the back (first day), 19.
- Severe pain in the stomach, now and then, 18.
- Burning pain at stomach (in half an hour), 24.
- Burning in the stomach constantly (after large dose), 9, 14.
- A kind of contractive cramp in the stomach at 11.30 A.M.; disappears after eating, 6.
- Aching in the stomach, as if diarrhœa would ensue, followed in about an hour by a liquid stool, with some urging, although two hours before he had a normal stool, at noon (first day), 19.
- Slight pressure of the stomach (after one hour), 18.
- Pressure on the stomach, as from a stone, with internal heat, 6.
- Constant pressure on the stomach as of a stone (latest action), 4. [360.]
- Pressure in the stomach and right hypochondrium, with sensation of fulness, 20.
- Long-continued pressure in the stomach, increased by pressure with the hand, 18.
- Excessive pressure in the stomach, with inclination to vomit, eructations, colic, and rumbling in the abdomen (a quarter of an hour after 10 drops), 13.
- Sticking pain in the pit of the stomach, extending to the navel, increased by deep pressure, and generally seems to be deeper than the stomach (from 8 to 11 A.M.), 18.
- The pain in the stomach is increased by pressure, 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.
- In General.
- Tympanitic distension of the abdomen and passage of much wind, 18.*
- The abdomen is full of wind, as is shown by percussion, 19.
- Slight twitching in the left side (from 8th), 3.
- Sounds of gas in the intestines, and also in the œsophagus, 18.
- Rumbling in the bowels, 11. [390.]
- Rumbling in the abdomen, 18.
- Much rumbling in the abdomen, 18.
- Frequent rumblings in the abdomen, 18.
- Rumbling and fermenting in the abdomen (from four to six days), (from 3d), 1.
- *Rumbling in the abdomen and slight pressure in the stomach, 18.
- Continued rumbling, with passage of flatus and empty eructations, 18.
- Flatulence, 18.
- Passage of flatus (after two hours), 18.
- Passage of much odorless flatus (from 8th), 2.
- Pleasant sensation of warmth in the abdomen, with accelerated pulse (after 5 drops), 8. [400.]
- Pain in the left side for several days, 6.
- Pains in the abdomen and small of the back , as during menstruation; passage of much flatus , as was the case during menstruation, 2.
- After tobacco-smoking, very violent pinching pains in the abdomen, better when pressing upon it, worse on sudden motion; on sitting bent and pressing upon it he noticed the pain only during expiration, not during inspiration (from 3d), 3.
- Slight gripings in the intestines immediately after taking, each time (after 6 to 8 drops), 9.
- Severe gripings in the intestines (from 13 drops), 9.
- Colic (1/2 drop tinct.), 23.
- Colic, violent pains in the abdomen, 6.
- Colic and borborygmi, 11.
- Before menstruation, sticking in the abdomen, relieved by lying bent, 1.
- Some right inguinal glands are much larger than usual, without pain, 21. [410.]
- Pain in the left inguinal ring, 18.
- Pain in the left inguinal canal, especially on walking, pressure, and cough, 18.
- Pain in the left side of the abdomen, becomes a dragging toward the inguinal ring (from 8th), 3.
- Pain in the crest of the right ilium (from 8th), 3.
- Boring in the posterior portion of the left crest of the ilium, 21.
- Stitches in the anterior spine of the crest of the left ilium, 21.
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.]
- The urine becomes cloudy and decidedly ammoniacal after one hour, 18.
- The urine contains large flakes of white mucus, 18.
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, 1.
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.*
- *Hoarseness, 18.
- *Hoarseness is worse in the afternoon than in the forenoon (from 6th), 3.
- *Hoarseness, loss of voice; he cannot speak clearly; the voice is weak and soft, with a feeling in the throat as if scraped raw (in the evening), (from 7th), 3.
- Cough.
- Cough, with pain in the chest, 9.
- Cough excited by scratching and tickling (from 6th), 3.
- Cough excited by deep inspiration, 1.*
- *Cough, with paroxysms of suffocation suddenly on swallowing (from 5 drops in half an ounce of water); respiration is very short; is obliged to catch for breath, 8. [520.]
- Short cough without expectoration, with sore pain in the chest, 1.
- Slight hacking cough, 9.
- Hacking cough several times in the day, 2.
- Violent cough, and sensation of sulphur fumes, followed by confusion of the head and dull pressive headache (from fumes), 16.
- Rough cough, 11.
- Racking cough, which does not allow one to speak, 11.
- Dry cough, 18.
- Dry cough several times, 18.
- Frequent dry cough, soon after taking, 20.
- Dry cough, from a continued slight tickling rawness in the throat (from 7th), 3. [530.]
- Dry cough, in the morning (second day), 19.
- Now and then a dry cough, with pain in the left side of the chest, 18.
- Dry cough, with sticking in the left side, extending from the left nipple into the chest, 18.
- A rough, hollow dry cough, with great fatigue (from 3d), 3.
- Respiration.
- The glottis had closed with a spasm, and did not yields willingly, 25.
- Spasmodic respiration (in four hours), 24.
- Deep breathing becomes a yawning, 3.
- Quick and short breathing (in half an hour), 24.
- Necessity for breathing deeply (first hour), 18.
- Deep expirations now and then (after an hour and a half), 18. [540.]
- Frequent deep breathing (first day), 19.
- Frequent deep expiration, when sitting (soon), 18.
- Deep forcible inspiration is necessary from time to time, 18.*
- A feeling as though he could not breathe enough, and must voluntarily breathe more strongly (soon after taking), 18.
- Oppression of breath immediately after taking it, with deep inspiration, together with a sensation as if he did not get enough air into the chest, on account of which he elevates the thorax and inspires forcibly, 18.*
- Difficulty of breathing; he cannot inspire sufficient ; when walking, even rapidly, better; worse in the morning, better in the evening and at night (third day), 3.*
- Short, difficult breathing, with prolonged inspiration and mucous râle (in two hours), 24.
- Difficult painful breathing, 11.
- Frequent difficult breathing, 18.
- Frequent difficult respiration (after half an hour), 18. [550.]
- Respiration is very much embarrassed; he is obliged to catch for breath, 8.
- Respiratory troubles; it seems as if inspiration was prevented by an impediment in the middle of the chest (from 3d), (even after six weeks), 3.
- Impeded respiration, as from a slight pressure on the lower end of the breast-bone (from 8th), 3.
- Impeded respiration, from a slight pressure in the pit of the stomach, 3.
- Inspiration of very concentrated fumes causes dyspnœa; for a long time the saliva, etc., is increased; it is followed by cough and pain in the chest; after some time pain in the abdomen; after two hours a pasty stool, which is repeated three times in the afternoon, becoming very thin; a slight hacking cough remains for several days, 9.
- If a large quantity is inspired it causes severe oppression and cough, together with a very full pulse, which, however, is not faster than usual. The secretion of saliva markedly increased; it is followed by vertigo, frequent bleeding of the nose, and finally a headache remains. All the conditions disappear within four to six hours, 17.
- (*An asthma, in a girl of sixteen years, had remained for ten years after measles, so that the girl was never able to walk rapidly nor ascend steps without being very much exhausted; disappeared after five doses of five globules of the 30th, which she took for proving, [°], 4 .)
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), 2.
- Pain in the right wall of the chest, on waking (second day), 21. [580.]
- Pain in the right side between the seventh and ninth ribs, especially on motion, 19.
- Constant pain in the right side beneath the ribs, especially on somewhat deep pressure (after seven hours), 19.
- The pain in the right side of the chest increased very much toward evening; lifting a light weight with the right hand increased the pain, so also walking, on account of the increased motion of the pectoral muscles; at times the pain extends to the dorsal muscles of the same side, and then is also increased by expiration; this continues until he falls asleep; it awakens him at night in turning the body; continues equally severe the next morning; only disappears after five days; it is especially severe in the morning and evening; worse when moving the thorax; less when walking than when sitting; especially severe on waking; rest is almost impossible, 18.
- The pain on the right side under the ribs still continues, though not so severe all the time; it is aggravated by pressure on the sixth day; this same pain continues the following days, sometimes so violent that even breathing becomes painful; the abdomen is therewith distended with gas; a stooping posture and moderate pressure relieve the pain, which seems to be in the region of the gall-bladder, and which, on deep breathing, extends to the navel; also, however deep, when fasting, the pain is not noticed; it seems to be most severe two hours after eating, 19.
- Pain, like a pressure, in the right side of the chest, 3.
- Pressive pain in the right lung (from 8th), 3.
- Pressure in the wall of the chest below the right nipple, 21.
- A sensation in several places in the right wall of the chest, as if it were pressed from within outward; not increased by breathing, but by motion of the thorax; at 6 P.M., and several times repeated during the evening (first day), 21.
- Sticking in the right side of the chest beneath the fourth rib, with palpitation (from 7th), 3.
- Sharp stitches in the right side of the chest , especially when walking rapidly, 1. [590.]
- Severe stitches between the sixth and seventh ribs of the right side, at 6 P.M. (from the fumes), 2.
- Tickling in the right side of the chest in the region of the sixth rib (in the afternoon of second day), 3.
- A tickling spot in the region of the right eighth rib (from 8th), 3.
- Transient pain in the left chest, 3.
- Very transient pain in the left lung (from 8th), 3.
- Wandering pains in the left side of the chest uninfluenced by breathing; afterwards these pains extend to the right side of the chest, where they become pressive; they then leave the left side and continue in the right side for three days; they appear immediately on walking, are neither increased by breathing nor by motion, only aggravated by bending both shoulders forward, with slight flexion of the upper part of the chest, or by turning the thorax on its axis, whence the pain seems to be in the muscles of this region, 18.
- Severe pain on the left side under the ribs, several times; it quickly disappears; on the night of the sixth day the same pain extends higher up, and is somewhat more violent; worse when lying bent; not increased by breathing, 19.
- Pain in the left side of the chest by the fourth rib, and tickling in the right side of the head (from 7th), 3.
- Paralytic drawing pain through the left side of the chest towards the shoulder-blade and into the left arm (from 7th), 3.
- Pressure in the left pectoral muscles, 21. [600.]
- Pressure below the left clavicle, 21.
- Tearing in the left clavicle, 21.
- Sticking pain in the left side of the chest, 3.
- Sticking pain on the left side of the chest, extending towards the arm, 6.
- Transient stitches in the left side below the ribs, 19.
- Pressure in the sternum, 21.
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, 6.
- The fingers of the right hand become so stiff that she is afraid she will let the dish fall she is holding in her hand, 5.
- Dead pain in all the finger-joints of the left hand; the pain extends hence to the elbow and shoulder, and pain in the upper and lower part of the arm, 4.
- Hot bromine (thirty-six to forty degrees R.) placed upon the dorsal surface of a finger caused more violent burning pain than on the flexor surface; in the latter case the yellow spot soon easily disappears; in the former it remains yellow for more than fourteen days, and gradually disappears in fine scales, 9.
- Pressure in the root of the left fingers, 21.
- Pressure in the metacarpal bone of the right index finger, 21.
- Pressure on the back of the joint between the first and second phalanges of the right fourth finger, 18.
- Severe compression at the basis of the left fourth and fifth fingers, 18. [660.]
- Tearing in the fingers, 11.
- Tearing in the first phalanges of the right fourth and fifth fingers, 21.
- Tearing through the left fourth finger and in the right third and fourth fingers, 21.
- Tearing in the middle joint of the middle finger of the left hand, which obliges one to extend the fingers, 4.
- Tearing asunder pain between the metacarpus and the first phalanx of the right finger, 20.
- Jerklike tearings through the left thumb, at 6 P.M., in the frontal bone very frequently, through the right great toe, in the lower part of the right leg, in the right knee, with bruised pain when sitting, in the evening, 18.
- Severe cutting on the back of the whole of the left fourth finger, 21.
- Stitches in the fingers, 13.
- Stitches on the back of the joint between the first and second phalanges of the left fourth finger continue the whole forenoon, 20.
- Severe burning stitches in the tip of the left index finger, 20. [670.]
- Fine stitches on the back of the right little finger, when some bright-red small spots appeared and lasted the whole day, 21.
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, 21.
- Pressure in the right ankle, especially in the inner malleoli, 21.
- Pressure in the left ankle and in the bones of the right metatarsus and the bones on the back of the right foot, 21. [700.]
- In the evening, when stepping, violent pain in the middle of the ball of the left foot, as if one stepped upon a hard body, with paralyzed sensation of the knee-joint and also somewhat in the hip; immediately afterwards, as this becomes better, a pressive pain in the left side of the throat near the thyroid cartilage, 12.
- Tension in the tendons on the back of the right foot on bending the ankle when walking (after four hours), 20.
- Drawings in the tendons on the back of the right foot, 20.
- Pressure on the back of the right foot, 21.
- Tearing in the tendons on the back of the back of the right foot, 19.
- Cold sensation in the left great toe, 1.
- Pain in the right toes (from 8th), 3.
- Almost constant pain in the fourth toe of the right foot (in the evening of second day), 3.
- Pain in the tip of the right fourth toe, together with tickling on the forehead and pain in the inner side of the right knee, 3.
- Cutting in the flesh near the nail of the great toe, 18. [710.]
- Waking at night with crawling and coldness of the left great toe, 1.
- A corn on the right little toe becomes painful and grows rapidly, 1.
- Slight burning and pain in a corn on the fourth toe of the right foot, and beneath the ball of the foot (first day, repeated second day in the afternoon, and evening of eleventh day, after repeated doses), 3.
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), 3.
- Tickling below the right knee-cap, disappears on scratching (from 8th), 3.
- Itching soon relieved by scratching, 3.
- Itching in various places in the skin that causes scratching, whereby the itching ceases, but soon reappears, 18.
- Itching, now here, now there, mostly in the right side of the face, 3.
- Itching between the fingers, soon disappearing on scratching, 18.
- Tickling-itching soon disappearing, always in a small spot, now in the right side, now in the left (second day), 3.
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, 1.
- Dreamy night (one night), 19. [780.]
- Night full of dreams, 4.
- Restless dreams sleep, 1.
- Starting from sleep the second night, on account of restless dreams he sprang out of bed, and only came to his senses by putting his feet on the cold floor, 18.
- Vivid dreams, and wide awake on waking, 12.
- Vivid dreams at night; he is ascending a height, 4.
- A vivid dream in the second night, as if one were climbing a steep place, etc., and moving about in the bed without waking from sleep (two nights), 18.
- Vivid dreams of journeyings, climbings, quarrels, and fightings, with distinct recollection on waking, 6.
- She dreams of nothing but dying, coffins, and funerals (tenth day), 1.
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, 4.
- Heat rises into the head, now and then, 19.
- Increased warmth in the forehead and chest (soon), 18.
- Heat of the face, 11. [810.]
- Heat in the nose and on the left cheek (from the 7th), 3.
- Heat in the back, which extends into the head and face, 18.
- Frequent heat, extending over the body from the back, 18.
- Heat of both hands (from 7th), 3.
- Heat of both hands and heat of the head, with coldness in the rest of the body, 3.
- The right hand is hot and full, as if distended (from 8th), 3.
- Heat in the feet (from 3d), 3.
- Heat in the feet, in other respects he feels quite cold, 3.
- Sweat.
- Sweats easily on slight movement, 1.
- Sweat in the palms, 18. [820.]
- Profuse sweat in the palms (after three hours), 18.
- Sweat in the palms, with increased warmth (after one and a half hours), 18.
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.
- ( On deep inspiration ), Pressure on chest.
- ( Lying down ), Vertigo.
- ( Before menstruation ), Sticking in abdomen.
- ( After drinking milk ), Headache.
- ( Motion ), *Stitches in upper lid; pain in right side; tension in lumbar, etc., muscles; pain in left knee, etc.
- ( On moving eyes ), Pressure.
- ( Moving nose ), Sensation in face.
- ( When moving thorax ), Pain in side of chest.
- ( After eating oysters ), *Diarrhœa returns, [°].
- ( Pressure ), Stitches in left upper lids; pressure in stomach; pain in stomach; cutting in hypochondria; pain in region of liver; pain to left of navel; pain in left side.
- ( Deep pressing ), Pain in pit of stomach; pain in right side.
- ( When reading ), Sensitiveness of eyes; stitches in eyelid.
- ( Rest ), Pain in forehead.
- ( Riding ), Pain in region of liver.
- ( In room ), Pressure in frontal bones.
- ( When sitting ), Symptoms seem to increase; deep inspiration; throbbing in right knee; pain in legs; chilliness in back.
- ( Stooping ), Headache; *stitches in upper lid.
- ( Swallowing fluids ), pain in throat.
- ( Swallowing saliva ), Stitch in larynx.
- ( Tobacco smoking ), Causes nausea, etc.; pains in abdomen.
- ( Turning head to left side ), Throat stiff, etc.
- ( Turning thorax on its axis ), Pains in left chest.
- ( After urinating ), Burning in urethra.
- ( On waking ), Pain in side chest.
- ( Walking ), Pressure in prostate gland; palpitation; stiffness in front of thigh; weakness.
- ( Walking rapidly ), Stitches in right chest.
- ( In warm room ), Symptoms seem to increase.
- Amelioration.
- ( Afternoon ), Stiffness in limbs.
- ( Evening ), Difficulty of breathing.
- ( Night ), Difficulty of breathing.
- ( Motion in open air ), Symptoms in general.
- ( Alcoholic stimulants ), Cured.
- ( Vapor of alcohol ), Most of the symptoms.
- ( Ammonia ), Most of the symptoms.
- ( Black coffee ), Diarrhœa.
- ( Cough ), Pain in inguinal canal.
- ( After eating ), Symptoms disappear, etc.; nausea emptiness in stomach; cramp in stomach.
- ( When fasting ), Pain in right side not noticed.
- ( Lying bent ), Sticking in abdomen.
- ( Lying on right side with arms over head ), Headache.
- ( Motion ), *Most of the symptoms.
- ( External pressure ), Toothache; pains in abdomen; pain in inguinal canal; pain in right side.
- ( Rest ), *Stitches in left upper lid.
- ( When riding ), Symptoms disappear.
- ( In shade ), Headache goes away.
- ( After shaving ), Cold sensation in larynx, etc.
- ( Stooping ), Pain in right side.
- ( Walking ), Mental and bodily conditions; pain in inguinal canal; difficulty of breathing; pain in right side of chest.
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.