BROMIUM.
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].® 2000
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