Lithium Bromatum
by John Henry Clarke — A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
Bromide of Lithium. Li. br. Trituration. Tincture.
Clinical
Apoplexy / Epilepsy / Speech, thick / Vertigo
Characteristics
Weir Mitchell, quoted by Hale, is the authority for this medicament. He gave thirty grains to a gentleman (who had had one previous attack of apoplexy and was hemiplegic) for these symptoms: Numbness, vertigo, headache, and thickness of speech. The one dose removed them in half an hour. Mitchell gave it in epilepsy when other bromides were not borne. Hale mentions that it removed these symptoms in a case: After any prolonged mental exertion, flushed face, insomnia, and intense pain between the shoulders.