Materia Medica
Bromium
Bromine
Most marked effects are seen in the respiratory symptoms, especially in larynx and trachea. It seems to affect especially scrofulous children with enlarged glands. Blond type. Enlarged parotid and goitre. Tendency / to spasmodic attacks. Left-sided mumps. Sense of suffocation; excoriating discharges. profuse sweats and great weakness. Complaints from being over-heated. Tendency yto.infltratc glands, lecomc hard, but scldom suppurate.
Mind
Dclusion that strange persons are looking over patient's shoulder and that she would see some one on turning.
Head
Megrim of left side; worse stooping, espe- cially after drinking milk. Headache: worse heat of sun and by rapid motion. S Sharp pain through eyes.
Nose
Coryza, with rorrosive soreiless . of nose. Stoppage of riglit nostril. Pressure at root of nose. Tickling. smarting, as from cobwebs. Fan-like motion of alae. [Lyc.] Bleeding from nose relieving the chest.
Throat
Throat feels raw, evening, with hoarse- ness. Tonsils pain on swallowing, deep red, with met- work of dilated blood vessels. Tickling in trachea dur- ing inspiration. Hoarseness coming on from being over- heated. Stomach and Abdomen.— Sharp burning from tongue to stomach. Pressure as of stone. Gastralgia; better eating. Tympanitic distention of abdomen. Pain- ful haemorrhoids, with black stool.
Male
Swelling of testicles. Indurated, with pains worse slight jar.
Female
Swelling of ovaries. Menises too early; too profuse, with membranous shreds. Low spirited before menses. Tumor in breasts, with stitching pains; worse left. Stitch pains from breast to axille. Sharp shooting pain in left breast, worse pressure.
Respiratory
Whooping rough. (Use persistently for about ten days.) Dry cough, with hoarseness and burning pain behind sternum. Spasmodic cough, with rattling of mucus in the iarynx; suffocative. Hoarse- 151 ness. Croup after febrile symptoms have subsided. Difficult and painful breathing. Violent cramping of
Chest
Chest pains run upward. Cold sensation when inspiring. Every inspiration provokes cough. Lary- cal diphthicria; membrane begins in larynx and spreads upward. Spasmodic constriction. Asthma; better at sea, of seafaring men when they come on and. Hy- pertrophy of heart from gymnastics. [Rhus.]
Skin
Acne, pimples and pustules. Boils on arms and face. Glands stony, hard, especially on lower jaw and throat. Hard goitre. [Spong.]
Sleep
Full of dreams; jerking and starting dur- ing sleep, full of fantasy; trembling and weak on awaking.
Modalities
Worse, from evening, until midnight, Sm :e s Better, from any motion; exercise; at sea.
Relationships
Antidotes: Ammon. carb.; Camph. Salt inhibits the action of Brom. Compare: Conium; Spongia; Iod.; Astcr.; Arg. nit. Avoid milk when taking Brom. Hydrobromic acid. (Throat dry and puckering; constriction in pharynx and chest; waves of heat over face and neck; tinnitus; vertigo, palpitation; arms heavy; soemed as if parts did not belong to him. Seems to have a specific effect on the inferior cervical ganglion, , increasing the tonic action of the sympathetic, thus promoting vaso-con- striction. Relieves headache, tinnitus and vertigo, es- pecially in vaso-motor stomach disturbance. Dose, 20 minims.)
Dose
First to third attenuation. Must be prepared fresh, as it is liable to rapid deterioration.