Camphora Bromata.
Monobromide of Camphor; a compound in which one atom of hydrogen of the
camphor has been replaced by one of bromine. C10 H15
Br O. Trituration.Clinical.─
Cholera infantum. Chordee. Direction,
sense of, lost. Gastric catarrh. Hysteria. Influenza. Irritation in acute eczema. Nervous
excitability. Sleep, disorders of. Spermatorrhśa.
Characteristics.─
Dr. Cooper has found Camph. bro. of wide utility in all cases where nervous
excitability is present. He has given it chiefly in single doses of 3x trituration. In a
case reported by Dr. E. M. Beard of a young man who suffered from gastric catarrh in
convulsive paroxysms which were induced by the sight of physical deformity, the touch of a
cold, clammy hand, and the mention of odours, the actual
presence of which did not affect him, complete relief was afforded by 3 gr. doses of Camph. bro. every 3 or 4 hours. But the drug set up these
singular symptoms: Directions appeared to be reversed; north seemed south, and east seemed
west; innumerable black flies seemed to be flitting over the field of vision; he was
sleepless; and when he did sleep it was restless and vexed with ghastly dreams. (Camph. has visions of spirits in sleep.) The reversal of
directions lasted many days, and the strain on the faculty of attention was so torturing
that he became prostrate in mind and body (C. D. P.).
Hale mentions among the conditions relieved by it: Hysteria, weeping and laughter
alternately. Headache in women and young girls due to mental excitement and excessive study.
Delirium tremens. Chordee. Neuralgia of testes and prostate. Impotence. Spermatorrhśa.® 2000
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