Bromium brom.

LARYNX. RESPIRATION. Heart. Circulation. Glands: Parotid. Thyroid. Ovaries. Mammæ.

WARM: DAMPNESS. Overheating. Room. Chilled while hot. Sea bathing. Dust. Drafts. Until midnight.

Nosebleed (vertigo, head, chest). At sea. Motion.

Scrophulous blondes. Constrictions, glandular induration or membranous formations. Weak and easily overheated, then sweaty and sensitive to drafts.

Head congested, fears a stroke. Acrid, burning coryza. Nosebleed. Face seems drawn to a point at nose. Flatus from vagina. Inhaled air seems smoky, cold or raw. Lungs feel coated with down. Wants to take a deep breath, but it excites cough. Suffocative fits; he starts up choked with croupy or wheezing cough, or with palpitation. Asthma. Spasm of glottis. Asthma of sailors going ashore. Deep hoarseness, < if heated. Diphtheritic croup. Colds start in larynx; go upward (Merc. Sep.) and downward. Thick, white expectoration. Even a small goitre oppresses. Nervous palpitation. Cardiac hypertrophy. Slow, glandular enlargement. Boring in bones.

Related: Lach. Samb.

It acts best, but not exclusively, on persons with light blue eyes, flaxen hair, light eyebrows, fair, delicate skin; blonde, red-cheeked, scrofulous girls. Sensation of cobweb on the face (Bar., Bor., Graph.). Fan-like motion of the alae nasi (Ant. t., Lyc.). Sailors suffer with asthma "on shore.". Stony, hard, scrofulous or tuberculous swelling of glands, especially on lower jaw and throat (thyroid, submaxillary, parotid, testes). Diphtheria: where the membrane forms in pharynx; beginning in bronchi, trachea or larynx, and extending upwards; chest pains running upwards. Membranous and diphtheritic croup; much rattling of mucus during cough, but no choking (as in Hepar.); sounds loose, but no expectoration (Ant. t.). Croupy symptoms with hoarseness during whooping cough; gasping for breath. Dyspnoea: cannot inspire deep enough; as if breathing through a sponge or the air passages were full of smoke or vapor of sulphur; rattling, sawing; voice inaudible; danger of suffocation from mucous in larynx (in bronchi, Ant. t.). Hypertrophy of heart from gymnastics in growing boys (from calisthenics in young girls, Caust.). Physometra; loud emission of flatus from the vagina (Lyc.); membranous dysmenorrhoea (Lac. c.). Cold sensation in larynx on inspiration (Rhus, Sulph.); > after shaving (< after shaving, Carbo an.).

Compare: in croup and croupy affections, Chlor., Hep., Iod., Spong. Hard goitre cured after Iod. failed. Brom. has cured in croup after failure of Iod., Phos., Hep., Spong.; especially in relapses after Iod. "The chief distinction between Brom. and Iod. is the former cures the blue-eyed and the latter the black-eyed patients." - Hering.

This remedy affects particularly the internal head, left side. Important in diphtheria and croup, especially in children having thin, white, delicate skins, and very light hair and eyebrows.

Cheerful mood; desire for mental labor.

When the Diphtheria begins in the larynx and runs up.

When with all the croupy sound, there is a good deal of loose rattling in the larynx with the breathing and coughing, but no choking in the cough, as there is in Hepar.

Affects chiefly eyes, chest and heart. In females, escape of flatus from the vagina.

In the first part of the night.

Fluent coryza, with sneezing; long continued and obstinate; corrosive soreness under the nose and on margins of nostrils. Blind, intensely painful hemorrhoids, with black stool. Loud emissions of flatus from the vagina. Cold sensations in larynx, with cold feeling when inspiring. Cough, with sudden paroxysms of suffocation, on swallowing; respiration very short, obliged to catch for breath. Difficulty of breathing, cannot inspire deep enough; sensation as if the air passages were full of smoke.

Bromine (BROMUM)

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 to infiltrate glands, become hard, but seldom suppurate.

Delusion that strange persons are looking over patient's shoulder and that she would see some one on turning. Quarrelsome.

Megrim of left side; worse stooping, especially after drinking milk. Headache; worse heat of sun and by rapid motion. Sharp pain through eyes. Dizzy when crossing stream of water.

Coryza, with corrosive soreness of nose. Stoppage of right nostril. Pressure at root of nose. Tickling, smarting, as from cobwebs. Fan-like motion of alæ (Lyc). Bleeding from nose relieving the chest.

Throat feels raw, evening, with hoarseness. Tonsils pain on swallowing, deep red, with network of dilated blood vessels. Tickling in trachea during inspiration. Hoarseness coming on from being overheated.

Sharp burning from tongue to stomach. Pressure as of stone. Gastralgia; better eating. Tympanitic distention of abdomen. Painful hæmorrhoids, with black stool.

Whooping cough (Use persistently for about ten days). Dry cough, with hoarseness and burning pain behind sternum. Spasmodic cough, with rattling of mucus in the larynx; suffocative. Hoarseness. 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. Laryngeal diphtheria, membrane begins in larynx and spreads upward. Spasmodic constriction. Asthma; difficulty in getting air into lung (Chlorum, in expelling). Better at sea, of seafaring men when they come on land. Hypertrophy of heart from gymnastics (Rhus). Fibrinous bronchitis, great dyspnœa. Bronchial tubes feel filled with smoke.

Swelling of testicles. Indurated, with pains worse slight jar.

Swelling of ovaries. Menses too early; too profuse, with membranous shreds. Low spirited before menses. Tumor in breasts, with stitching pains; worse left. Stitch pains from breast to axillæ. Sharp shooting pain in left breast, worse, pressure.

Full of dreams and anguish; jerking and starting during sleep, full of fantasy and illusions; difficult to go to sleep at night, cannot sleep enough in morning; trembling and weak on awaking.

Acne, pimples and pustules. Boils on arms and face. Glands stony, hard, especially on lower jaw and throat. Hard goitre (Spong). Gangrene.

Worse, from evening, until midnight, and when sitting in warm room; warm damp weather when at rest and lying left side. Better, from any motion; exercise, at sea.

Antidotes: Ammon carb; Camph. Salt inhibits the action of Brom.

Compare: Conium; Spongia; Iod; Aster; 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; pulsating tinnitus with great nervous irritability (Houghton); vertigo, palpitation; arms heavy; seemed 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-constriction. Relieves headache, tinnitus and vertigo, especially in vaso-motor stomach disturbance. Dose, 20 minims).

First to third attenuation. Must be prepared fresh, as it is liable to rapid deterioration.

An element proven and arranged by Hering and an important remedy in laryngeal affections. Also in scrofulous and tubercular affections of the glands. It is well known to act best on persons with light blue eyes, flaxen hair, light eye-brows, fair, delicate skins, red cheeked scrofulous girls. It will be remembered how almost exactly opposite, so far as temperament is concerned, is Iodine, which is also one of our chief anti-scrofulous remedies. In glandular affections, three remedies that are not as often thought of as they perhaps should be, are Carbo animalis, Conium and Bromine; in all three the glands are stony hard with a cancerous tendency. In Bromine the pains are not characteristic, but with Conium and Carbo animalis they are lancinating, cutting or burning, more like cancer pains.

In diphtheria, where it has done some wonderful work, the membrane first forms in the bronchi, trachea or larynx, running upward, just the opposite of Lycopodium, which often forms first in the nose and runs downward.

In membranous croup, there is great rattling of mucus like Hepar, but no expectoration. There seems to be great danger of suffocation from accumulation of mucus in larynx (in bronchi, Ant. tart.).

Sensation of cobweb in face. (Bar., Graph. and Borax).

Fan-like motion of alæ nasi (Ant. t. Lycop.).

Hypertrophy of heart from gymnastics (Caust.).

Membranous dysmenorrhœa (Lac can.).

Cheerful mind ; desire for mental labor. Low-spirited, and out of humor. Crying and lamentation, with hoarse voice.

Headache after drinking milk. Pain over the left eye. Scald-head.

Lachrymation (right eye) with swelling of the tear-gland. Darting through the eyes, (left). Dilatation of the pupils. Flashes before the eyes. Protruded eyes.

Swelling and hardness of the (left) parotid gland.

Soreness in the nose, with scurfs. Bleeding of the nose, relieving the chest. Coryza, with sneezing ; the margins of the nose, and the parts under the noise, are corroded, with stoppage of the nose.

Paleness of the face. Heat in the cheek ; first in the right, later in the left.

Ptyalism ; much frothy mucus in the mouth. Inflammation of the throat, with net-like redness and corroded places. Burning from the mouth to the stomach. Stinging in the tip of the tongue. Heat in the mouth and œsophagus.

Desire for acids ; and diarrhœa from taking them. Water tastes saltish.

Vomiting of bloody mucus. Nausea and retching ; better after eating. Feeling of emptiness in the stomach ; better after eating. Feeling of heaviness in the stomach, (inflammation of the stomach). Enlargement and induration of the spleen.

Diarrhœa ; stools yellow, green, black.

Men. Swelling and induration of the (left) testicle, with sore pain, or sensation of coldness. Swelling of the scrotum, (with chronic gonorrhœa). Women. Loud emissions of flatulency from the vagina. During the menses, pain in the abdomen and in the small of the back.

Hoarseness, aphonia ; worse in the evening. Soreness and roughness in the throat. Tickling in the trachea during an inspiration. Dry, spasmodic, wheezing cough, with rattling breathing. Cough rough, barking, from tickling in the throat. Violent oppression of the chest, as from the vapors of sulphur. Sensation of weakness in the chest. Tightness of the chest, (asthma). Stitches in the chest, (inflammation of the lungs, right side). Violent palpitation of the heart ; she cannot lie on the left side.

Goitre. Two encysted tumors on both sides of the neck. The left side of the neck is stiff and painful.

Excessive languor and debility, (worse after breakfast). Tremulousness all over.

Irresistible drowsiness while reading.

Pulse much accelerated. Chill on alternate days, with cold feet. Internal burning heat. Perspiration from the least exertion.

Swelling and induration of the glands, (thyroid, testes, sub-maxillary, parotid). Boils.

Aggravation in the evening till midnight ; in the warm room ; and when at rest. Amelioration from motion, riding on horseback. More suitable for persons with light hair and blue eyes.

Bromine. Br. (A. W. 79.9). Solution in distilled water.

Apoplexy. Asthma. Breast, cancer of. Cancer. Cough. Croup . Diphtheria. Dysmenorrhœa. Emphysema. Feet, pain in . Fistula lachrymalis. Glands, enlargement of. Goître. Heart, disease of; hypertrophy of. Laryngismus. Migraine. Parotid gland, induration of. Respiration, affections of . Scrofula. Seaside, effects of. Testicles, induration of. Throat, sore . Tonsils, enlarged; inflamed. Trachea, irritation of . Tuberculosis. Tumour of breast. Ulcers. Uterus, air in. Vagina, air in . Vertigo.

Bromine forms a leading constituent in the mineral waters of Kreutzach and Woodhall. It is a predominantly left-side medicine. It affects particularly the internal head, left side. It is suited to blue-eyed, fair people (opp. Iod .), especially children with thin, white, delicate skins, and very light hair and eyebrows (patients with dark hair are not excluded); to scrofulous constitutions. The glands (thyroid, testes, maxillary, parotid) are swollen and indurated. There is much anxiety of mind; a fear of ghosts or visions when in the dark. Like the other Halogens, Bromine is a strong anti-scorbutic. It has > at the sea-side (opp. Nat. mur .); but < in sailors when coming ashore. Migraine chiefly left side, < from stooping, especially after drinking milk. It has a peculiar vertigo: sensation deep in brain as if vertigo would come on; tendency to fall backward; < at the sight of running water; or if he put his foot on a bridge; < in damp weather. Vertigo with nose-bleed. Soreness and crusts inside nose. Nose-bleed accompanies many affections, especially of chest. There is a peculiar headache with coryza. In the cases of diphtheria indicating it the disease begins in the larynx and runs up. In croup, with all the croupy sound, there is much loose rattling in larynx with the breathing and coughing, but no choking in the cough, as there is in Hepar (Guernsey). Tuberculosis, especially of right lung. Hypertrophy of the heart and palpitation. Pain in heart going up to axilla. A very peculiar symptom is: loud emissions of air from the vagina. Symptoms are < by cold air; cold water; cold diet; cold damp weather; heat of sun. The cough is < entering warm room. Headache < from drinking milk; from stooping. Complaints are better at sea-side; sailors coming ashore suffer from asthma, which is relieved when they go to sea again. Symptoms < evening till midnight; when at rest; > riding on horseback. After dinner feels he will have an attack of apoplexy. Exertion = oppression at heart.

Compare: Iod. (but Iod. has < morning; dark hair and eyes); Chlorum, Lach., Spong., Fluor. ac., Hep., Apis, Arg. n., Chi., Con., Coff., Cin., Cup., Lyc., Merc., Pho., Rhus (cardiac hypertrophy, also Spo.; Arn. — from over-exertion); Sep., Sul., Ant. t.; Pul. (blondes. Fear of ghosts or visions; also, Aco., Ars., Carb. v., Pho., Sul.). Antidoted by: Camph., Am. c., Mag. c., Op. Useful after: Iod., Pho., Spo. Compatible: Arg. n. (generally after Bro.); Kali c. (emphysema).

Cheerful, desire for mental labour. — Low-spirited and out of humour. — Crying and lamentation, with hoarse voice. — Anxiety; originating in body (heart, lungs), patients expect to see things jump around the floor. — In evening, when alone, feels as if he should see something if he should turn round; as if some one were behind him.

Sensation deep in brain (after dinner) as if vertigo or fit of apoplexy would come on. — Vertigo with tendency to fall backward; < stepping on bridge; from running water; from rapid motion in front of him; with anxiety. — Peculiar headache and coryza: pressure in forehead which seems to be pushing brain down and out at root of nose. — Headache: deep in crown, with palpitation; over l. eye; < from stooping; from drinking milk. — Scalp tender; malignant scald-head.

Lachrymation (r.) with swelling of tear-gland. — Darting through eye (l.). — Dilated pupils. — Flashes before eyes. — Protruded eyes.

Noise in ears. — Swelling and hardness of (l.) parotid gland; feeling warm to the touch. — Suppuration of l. parotid, edges of the opening smooth; discharge watery and excoriating; swelling remaining hard and unyielding; after scarlatina.

Soreness in (swollen) nose with scurfs; pain and bleeding on wiping. — Bleeding of nose relieving chest. — Severe coryza, r. nostril stopped up and sore throughout, later l. — Coryza, with sneezing; margins of nose and parts under nose corroded, with stoppage (occurring annually).

Greyish, earthy complexion; old appearance. — Pale. — Heat in cheek, first r., later l. — Sensation of cobweb. — Strong, hard swelling of glands, esp. on lower jaw and throat.

Ptyalism; much frothy mucus in mouth. — Burning from mouth to stomach. — Heat in mouth and œsophagus. — Stinging in tip of tongue.

With all the croupy sound there is a good deal of loose rattling in larynx with the breathing and coughing, but no choking in the cough as there is in Hepar . — Inflammation of throat with net-like redness and corroded places. — Scraping in throat. — Swelling of mucous membranes of fauces and pharynx. — The diphtheria begins in the larynx and runs up.

Desire for acids, which < and cause diarrhœa. — Water tastes saltish.

Vomiting bloody mucus. — Nausea, retching, and pains in stomach; > after eating. — Feeling of emptiness in stomach > after eating. — Heavy feeling in stomach. — Inflammation of stomach.

Tympanitic distension of abdomen, and passage of much wind. — Enlargement and induration of spleen.

Diarrhœa, stools yellow, green, black; < after every meal. — Hæmorrhoids, blind, painful, during and after stool < from application of cold or warm water; > wetting with saliva; (with black diarrhœic stools). — Intensely painful hæmorrhoids.

Swelling and induration of (l.) testis, with sore pain or sensation of coldness. — Swelling of scrotum (with chronic gonorrhœa).

Loud emission of flatulency from vagina. — During menses pain in abdomen and small of back. — Menses too early and too profuse; of bright red blood; flow passive, with much exhaustion; or membranous shreds may pass off. — Violent contractive spasm before or during menses, lasting hours, leaving the abdomen sore. — Membranous dysmenorrhœa. — Dull pain in ovary (l.). — Stitching pains from breast to axillæ, cannot bear pressure (scirrhus).

Hoarseness and aphonia < evening. — Soreness and roughness in throat. — Cold sensation in larynx, with cold feeling when inspiring, after breakfast; > after shaving. — Constriction in the larynx; tickling, causing cough. — Tickling in trachea during inspiration causing cough. — Stitch in posterior portion of larynx, with feeling of constriction when swallowing saliva. — Scraping and rawness in larynx, provoking cough, as if pit of throat were pressed against trachea. — Diphtheria. — When the diphtheria begins in the larynx and runs up. — Croup. — When with all the croupy sound there is a good deal loose rattling in the larynx with the breathing and coughing, but no choking in the cough. — Dry, spasmodic, wheezing cough, with rattling breathing. — Cough rough, barking, from tickling in throat. — Inspiration very difficult; cannot inspire deep enough. — Cough with sudden paroxysms of suffocation on swallowing; respiration very short; obliged to catch for breath. — Sensation as if the air passages were full of smoke. — Spasmodic closure of the glottis.

Stitches in r. side of chest. — R. lung most affected. — Stitch (inflammation of lungs r. side). — Sensation of weakness in chest. — Tightness (asthma); < at night; in sailors when they come ashore.

Violent palpitation < lying l. side; (hypertrophy).

Neck stiff. — Glands of neck much swollen. — Goître. — Two encysted tumours on both sides of the neck. — Aching at inner border l. scapula up to neck, on moving l. arm, or sitting leaning to l. — Boring in spinous processes of different vertebræ.

Stiffness in all limbs, 11 a.m., > in afternoon. — Pains in limbs alternating with chilliness and heat.

L. arm feels paralysed. — Eruptions on l. elbow. — Icy-cold forearms. — Hands cold and moist.

Paralytic sensation in one or other leg. — Pains in one or both tibiæ.

Excessive languor and debility (worse after breakfast). — Great weakness and lassitude after all the symptoms passed off; in diphtheria. — Shivering with yawning and stretching; repeated every other day, as a chilliness and cold feet. — Tremulousness all over.

Pimples and pustules (acne). — Boils on the arms and face.

Irresistible drowsiness while reading. — Continued yawning and drowsiness with the respiratory troubles.

Pulse much accelerated. — Chill every other day with shaking, yawning, and stretching; with cold feet. — Skin cool, covered with viscous sweat. — Sweat on palms. — Perspiration from the least exertion.

Quick comprehension.
In evening, when alone, felt as if he would see something if he should turn around ; as if some one was back of him.
Expects to see something jump around floor.
Desire for mental labor, preceded by aversion to his awn profession.
Crying and lamentations, with hoarse voice.
Aversion to any kind of work, even reading ; takes no interest in household duties.
Cheerful mood, no desire for mental labor.
She does not feel as she generally does, but can't tell why.
Depression and melancholy.
Great depression of spirits. θ Scirrhus mamma.
Very much depressed and inconsolable. θ Cancer of mamma.
Low-spirited and out of humor.
Very low-spirited, with pain in left iliac region.
Sad, discouraged. θ Swelling to testicle.
She is not like herself ; despondent, sits alone in her room without doing anything ; looks constantly in one direction without saying anything.
Violent coughing spells, with anxiety. θ Croup.

Sensation deep in brain, as if vertigo would come on, or as if he would lose his consciousness.
Vertigo : with tendency to fall backward ; if he puts his foot on a bridge ; from sight of running water ; in damp weather ; with nausea and nosebleed.

Pain over left eye.
Headache ; heaviness in forehead in heat of sun, passes off when in shade.
Pressure in left temple.
Left-sided headache.
Headache all week, hammering in temples and top of head.
Headache deep in crown of head, with palpitation.
Headache after drinking milk.

Pains in bones of head, fore and back part ; towards evening in damp weather.
Scalp tender ; covered with an eruption, with dirty looking and offensive smelling discharge. θ Eczema.
Crawling beneath skin of occiput.
Malignant scald head.

Flashes of light.
Sensitiveness to bright light.
A grey point before right eye, moving up and down with movement of eye.
Dilatation of pupils.
Darting through left eye.
Throbbing stitches in left upper lid, extending to brow, forehead and left temple ; < by external pressure, motion and stooping ; > by rest ; pain unfits him for work.
Lachrymation of right eye, with swelling of lachrymal gland. θ Fistula lachrymalis.
Protruding eyes.

Noise in ears, like a distant rushing.
Ringing in right ear.
Stitches in ear.
Throbbing and burning in ears, may be succeeded by burning through whole body.
Discharge from ears.
Parotids, mostly left, affected. θ After scarlatina.
Swelling and hardness of left parotid gland, swelling feeling warm to touch. θ Sequel to scarlatina.
Suppuration of left parotid, edges of opening smooth ; discharge watery and excoriating ; swelling remaining hard and unyielding. θ After scarlatina. See
44 .

Fanlike motion of nostrils.
Tickling smarting, as from cobwebs, especially on moving nose ; this sensation is in face particularly below nose.
Nosebleed, with relief of chest and eye symptoms.
Bleeding of nose, relieving chest.
Frequent violent sneezing.
Inhalation causes sneezing.
Fluent coryza, with frequent violent sneezing ; corrosive soreness under nose and on margins of nose.
Fluent coryza, with scabby nostrils.
Severe coryza, right nostril stopped up and sore throughout ; later left.
Yearly cold, with sore nostril and difficult breathing.
Fluent coryza, in which right nostril is more affected and more stopped.
Long-continued, obstinate coryza, with soreness beneath nose and on margin of nose ; also catarrh in fauces.
Headache extends to right nostril.
Whole nose sore, and wings of nose swollen ; a scurf forms in it, with pain and bleeding on wiping it.

Continue in Hering 41 more passages →

Bromium is one of the routine medicines.

It is one of the medicines that the neophyte will make use of for every case of diphtheria and croup, and laryngitis he comes across; and when it does not work he will "try something else."

All who prescribe on the name use Bromium as one of their routine medicines; but Bromium is so seldom indicated that most homoeopaths give it up as a perfectly useless medicine.

The reason is that they do not take the symptoms of the case and prescribe in accordance with the individualizing method.

They do not prescribe for the patient, but for the disease. You may see very few cases of diphtheria calling for Bromium; but when you see a Bromium case you want to know Bromium.

There is one underlying feature of the Bromium conditions, they are found especially in those individuals that are made sick from being heated.

It there is a diphtheria epidemic and the mother bundles up her baby until she overheats it, and keeps it in a hot room, and it happens to be a child that is sensitive to being wrapped up, and one whose complaints are worse from being wrapped up, look out.

You are going to have a Bromium diphtheria. It is indicated also in complaints that come on in the night after a very hot day in the summer.

Now, this is as near as you can come to being routine in croup and diphtheria. If the mother has the baby out in a dreadfully cold, dry day, and along towards midnight it wakens with spasmodic croup, you know that it is more likely to call for Aconite than any other medicine.

But if the mother has had the baby out in a hot day in the summer, and that baby has been overheated, with too much clothing, and it is a plethoric child, and towards midnight you are called up, and the child has a red face, and your examinations reveal a membrane in the throat, we will see as we study the remedy that this may be a Bromium case.

"Hoarseness coming on from getting overheated."

Loss of voice coming on from getting overheated. A turmoil in the whole economy; with headaches, coming on from getting overheated. That runs through Bromium. So it is in the hot weather, and being confined to a hot room, and after going from the cold into the heat.

But after the complaint comes on, no matter where it is, he is so sensitive to cold that a draft of cool air freezes him; but he cannot be overheated without suffering.

Bromium has running through it a tendency to infiltrate the glands. The glands become bard, but seldom suppurate. They generally remain hard. The glands of the neck, the parotid, the sublingual, the submaxillary, are enormously enlarged and very hard.

The processes of inflammation are slow; they are not that rapid, violent kind like we find in Bell. and Merc.

"Parts that inflame infiltrate, becoming hard."

Inflammation with hardness is the idea. It has been very useful in ulcers with this infiltration; very useful in enlarged glands with great hardness, without any tendency to suppurate.

Glands take on tuberculosis, and tissues take on tuberculosis. Glands that inflame for a while begin to take on a lower form of degeneration, a lower form of tissue making.

It is very similar to these enlarged, hard, scrofulous glands that we find in the neck; enlargement of the parotid and submaxillary. It has cured enlargement and great hardness of the thyroid gland.

Again, we have emaciation, and when we see the tendency to infiltration it is not strange that it has been a curative medicine in cancer and tuberculosis. There is weakness in this remedy. The legs become weak. Growing prostration, with tremulous limbs.

Twitching; tremulous weakness; fainting. In the catarrhal affections there is a formation, more or less, of membrane.

Membranous exudate is a natural course of events. A natural feature of the mucous membrane is infiltration, so that the mucous membrane appears to exude little grayish-white vegetations, and beneath them is induration.

That is true in ulcers, it is true in mucous membrane. And ulcer will form upon the mucous membrane and eat in, and build beneath it a hardened stratum of tissue.

It has febrile conditions along with these catarrhal states. Great nervous excitement.

"Icy coldness of the limbs. "

"Heat of the head."

"Dyspnoea, with great sweating."

Croupy manifestations. Running through most of the complaints there is palpitation.

Palpitation with nausea, palpitation with headache, palpitation with various kinds of nervous excitement. So weak is be gradually becoming that he has an "aversion to every kind of work; to reading.

Takes no interest in household duties."

Becomes indifferent. Very tired.

"Great depression of spirits, Low spirited. Sad and discouraged."

Anxiety with most complaints. Headaches from becoming overheated.

"Noise in the ears.

Throbbing and burning in the ears."

And then the complaints of the glands that are so closely associated with the ears. With ear troubles, enlargement of the glands; the parotid becomes enlarged and bard.

Ear affections following scarlet fever, with discharges from the ears. Pains and aches; inflammation; abscess of the ear.

Suppuration of the parotid gland occasionally, but it is an exception.

"Swelling and hardness of the left parotid gland."

The ovaries, testes, etc., are all affected by Bromium.

Bleeding of the nose. Ulcerations in the nose. Catarrhal affections of the nose. Much sneezing.

Acute coryza, violent, with much burning in the nose, and a sensation of coldness, as if the mucous membrane of the nose were cold from inhaling cold air.

It is useful for June cold, with the first hot weather in June, or if the first hot weather comes in July. Violent coryza once a year, during the hot season. Fluent coryza, with headaches.

"The nose is sore and the wings of the nose swell.

Scurf forms on it, with pain and bleeding on wiping it."

Rawness round about the nostrils.

A Bromium patient is one that is likely to have flushed face, especially those due to acute Bromium conditions.

"Flushed face."

He becomes heated easily. But this is entirely the opposite of the chronic constitutional Bromium condition.

That is true with a good many remedies, especially many of the antipsorics. The old sickly broken-down constitutions, those needing Bromium for chronically enlarged glands, for goitre, for cancerous affections, will have the "gray, earthy color of the face.

Oldish appearance."

It is a sickly face, an ash-colored face.

"Face ashy gray."

Then again we have children that are plethoric, with red face, easily overheated. Of course, when the acute condition is on and the breathing has been that of dyspnoea for several hours or many days, then the patient becomes cyanotic, gasping for breath, and choking, the face becomes ashy pale, as it is in diphtheria, in croup, and in laryngeal affections.

"Stony, hard swelling of glands, especially of the lower jaw and throat."

We find that repeated in many divisions of the subject. Many of the throat complaints that are laid down in Bromium begin in the larynx and creep up into the throat.

Some of them begin in the throat and go down into the larynx; but the two are so closely associated in Bromium that both are likely to be affected; so that diphtheria spreads from one to the other. Diphtheria begins in the throat and goes into the larynx.

Bromium fits the most malignant type of diphtheria. The membrane grows like a weed, shuts off breathing, closes up the larynx, So severe are the cases, that though be has been sick but two or three days and even when Bromium has mastered the case, the patient is left with great prostration. All those that belong to Bromium are of that type.

Great violence; great prostration. Extremely sick, and with deathly weakness. A great many of the cures that have been performed in the throat have been left sided diphtheria, yet it has cured both sides. You will very seldom see Bromium develop in cold dry weather; but in hot damp weather Bromium cases come on; affections in the spring, and in the fall and summer.

The chronic cases that will need Bromium are such as have ulcers of the stomach. Suspicious ulcers in the stomach, and suspicious symptoms about the stomach.

Vomiting like coffee grounds, and vomiting with signs of ulceration. Aggravation after eating; either vomiting, or diarrhoea. Cannot take acids. Diarrhoea or cough worse after eating, or after acids.

"After eating oysters, diarrhoea, and a disordered stomach.

Worse from the slightest inhalation of tobacco smoke.

Vomiting of bloody mucus.

Eructations.

" Foul stomach. Pain in the stomach from warm things, from hot tea, hot drinks. "

It is a common feature when there is ulcer in the stomach or when the mucous membrane is about to ulcerate, that hot drinks are intolerable.

"Pains from taking hot foods."

In studying the stool and rectum symptoms we find exudation. Membranous formations pass in the stool. Diarrheic stool with membrane.

"Black, fecal stool." Diarrhoea; must go to stool after eating."

We have running through the remedy enlarged veins. These are found also in the rectum. Hemorrhoids protrude from the rectum, burning. Smarting day and night.

"Blind, intensely painful varices, with black, diarrheic stools.

Blind, painful hemorrhoids," and hemorrhoids that protrude.

"Haemorrhoids during and after stool."

During the stool the rectum is painful from hemorrhoidal tumors.

Swelling and induration of the left testicle. Notice the left sidedness, the left side of the throat, and the left testicle. Then, again, dull pain in the region of the left ovary.

"Constant dull pain in the ovary; with swelling and hardness."

There is the same induration of the left ovary. It does seem strange that some medicines single out more particularly the left organs and the left side of the body. Like Lach. in many instances it picks out the left side of the body.

A great many remedies show a preference for one side of the body; the glands in this remedy are more affected upon the left side of the body than the right.

"Swelling of the ovarian region before and during menses."

Suppression of the menses. Loud emission of flatus from the vagina.

In the larynx it has produced more symptoms than in any other part of the body. It produces a raw, sore feeling in the larynx from inhaled air.

"Rawness in the larynx.

Loss of voice.

Hoarseness from overheating."

From too much clothing on a warm day, or from keeping on an overcoat in a room that is heated; coming out into the air he cools off. He has laryngitis.

"Tickling in the larynx," keeping up a constant coughing.

Scraping and rawness in the larynx. Scraping mucus from the larynx, scraping and coughing. It is not a hawk, because that noise clears the throat.

Every medical should go through all the noises he hears others make, and try and observe as much as possible what feeling is accompanied with that noise, so that he can put himself in the other's place.

Each one is accompanied with its own sound, and the instant you hear it you realize the exact place he is drawing mucus from and just where the irritation is.

If you allow the patient to describe it he always calls it by the wrong name. The patient knows very little about this part except that it is the throat, and if he is drawing mucus from the throat, or scraping it from the larynx, he always calls it the throat.

But the physician must waive all that and observe as to sound. So let each one go alone by himself and make all these noises that he bears people make, and then realize for himself what part it is he is scraping.

It may seem ludicrous, but how else will you learn about it? It is just as important to figure out these sounds as it is to figure out what a child needs by its sounds and motions. It is impossible to get the symptoms and wants of a child except by interpreting its motions.

Every motion it makes indicates something. An astute observer, one who has been watching children for a number of years, will understand the child, and will hardly have to ask the mother a question. He will know at once where the child is sick by what it does.

The child is like the animal. You never have to ask a horse or dog where he feels pain, because he will always tell by his motions. So does the infant.

The hoarseness comes on after being overheated. Remember that.

"Rough, dry cough; pain in the larynx." jumping up for want of breath.

"Gasping and suffering for breath, with wheezing and rattling in larynx.

Sensation as if air passages were full of smoke."

Now we have all these rough sounds; rough breathing; croupy breathing; rasping breathing different ways of describing different forms of croup.

You cannot individualize a remedy by these because one child will croup in one pitch, and another will croup in another; but to get at the constitution of the child and the mother is the important point.

"Voice hardly audible."

"Spasm in the glottis."

In the croupy condition it is really a membranous formation upon the inflamed surface, very often extending downward through the trachea into the bronchial tubes, and producing a croupous pneumonia.

Bromium has that in its nature. But without any membranous formation at all Bromium constricts the larynx. It has constriction of the larynx; just like a clutching, a spasm.

"Tickling in the larynx, with irritation to cough.

Scraping and rawness in the larynx.

Sensation of coldness in the larynx."

That is a very peculiar symptom with Bromium. In laryngitis, where the patient says the feeling is as if it was covered with down.

I have heard them describe it as if it was covered with velvet, but it feels so cold.

The air breathed, feels cold, just like it was the air blown off from snow or ice.

Sensation of coldness in the larynx.

"Constant sore pain in the larynx."

This means that the larynx is painful to touch. Phos., Bell., and Rumex have soreness in the larynx, sore to touch; but the Bromium soreness is commonly below the larynx and in the throat pit as well.

"Sensation as if the air tubes were full of smoke."

Some patients, will describe that as sulphur fumes, or as of smoke from tar. After the first few hours mucus begins to accumulate in the larynx and trachea, and a constant expectoration keeps up, of a whitish thick mucus, and he coughs and scrapes the larynx constantly, and there is no peace.

This is often present in laryngitis without any membranous formation. Bromium is not given as often as it is indicated in voicelessness, in irritation of the larynx, in rawness of the larynx because it is uncommon for persons to have laryngitis and hoarseness in the larynx from being overheated.

Many of those cases would be cured promptly by Bromium. But where it is thought of by the routine prescriber is where there is croup or diphtheria.

That was never taught by Hahnemann.

"Much rattling of mucus in the larynx.

Inspiration very difficult.

Larynx drawn down."

This would take place in croup, after the formation of the membrane.

"Cough hoarse, crowing, suffocative; breathing sawing, whistling.

Spasms of the larynx; suffocative cough.

Membranous formation in larynx and trachea.

Croupous inflammation formed by exuberant growth of fungi."

"Asthma of sailors as soon as they go ashore;" relieved again as soon as they are at sea.

Difficult breathing with rattling throughout the chest. Bronchitis and pneumonia. Bromium is often the remedy when whooping cough is prevailing in the spring, towards the hot weather, and membranes form in the larynx.

The cough gets immediately worse from dust. Handling old books from the shelf aggravates. Sneezing, hoarseness, irritation in the respiratory tract from picking up and handling dusty things.

"Cough, with sudden paroxysms of suffocation on swallowing."

Bromium is full of catarrhal conditions, especially of the breathing apparatus. It has hepatization of the lungs; infiltration is one of its most natural features.

In evening when alone, felt as if he would see something if he should around; as if some one were back of him.
Expects to see something jump around the floor.
Desire for mental labor, preceded by aversion to his own profession.
Crying and lamentations, with hoarse voice.
Great depression of spirits.
Low-spirited and out of humor.

Vertigo: if he puts his foot on a bridge; from sight of running water; in damp weather; with nausea and nosebleed; with tendency to fall backwards.
Sensation deep in brain, as if vertigo would come on, or as if he would lose his consciousness.

Headache; heavy pressure in forehead in heat of the sun, passes off when in the shade.
Left-sided headache.
Headache after drinking milk.

Pains in the bones of the head, fore and back part; towards evening in damp weather.
Crawling beneath the skin of the occiput.
Scalp tender; covered with an eruption, with dirty looking and offensive-smelling discharge.

Sensitiveness to bright light.
Dilation of the pupils.
Lachrymation of right eye, with swelling of lachrymal gland.
Stitches through left eye.
Throbbing stitches in left upper lid, extending to brow, forehead and left temple; worse on touching it and from motion; bitter during rest.

Ringing in right ear.
Roaring in ears.
Stitches in the ears.
Discharge from the ears.
Throbbing and burning in ears, may be succeeded by burning through whole body.
Hard swelling of left parotid gland, feeling warm to touch.
Suppuration of left parotid, edges of the opening smooth; discharge watery and excoriating; swelling remaining hard and unyielding. θ After scarlatina.

Coryza with sneezing.
Severe coryza, right nostril stopped up and sore through-out; later the left.
Corrosive soreness on margins of nostrils and under the nose, with stoppage or with scurfs.
Nosebleed, with relief of chest and eye symptoms.

Face: pale, or red, or alternately so; bluish tinge turning purplish, with the cough in croup.
Greyish, earthy complexion.
Heat in cheeks, first in right, later in left.
Sensation as of spider-web on face.

Boring pain going to the right, or on right side of lower jaw.
Shooting pain on vermillion border of upper lip; afterwards yellow spots, which open and discharge a yellow fluid.
Painless swelling of left submaxillary gland.

Decayed teeth, sensitive to cold water.
Gums pain in the morning.

Taste: sweetish; salty; bitter; sour; acrid.
Water tastes salty, in the morning, fasting.
Dry sensation on the tongue.
Burning on the under surface of the tongue.
Stinging in the tip of the tongue.

Burning sensation in the mouth, œsophagus and stomach.
Mouth dry and parched.
Aphthæ, with affection of the eyes.

Elongation of the uvula.
Scraping in the throat.
Swelling of mucous membrane of fauces and pharynx.
Tonsils swollen, inflamed; constant pain in the throat, swallowing difficult, fluids worse then solids. θ After measles.
Right side of fauces dark red and dry, swallowing painful.

Desires for acids, which aggravate the symptoms and cause diarrhœa.
Aversion to the customary tobacco smoking; it causes nausea and vertigo.
Aversion to drinking cold water.

After eating oysters, diarrhœa; after acids, diarrhœa.
Gastric symptoms better from black coffee.
Nausea and pains in stomach, better after eating. See 25.
After breakfast: 25. After every meal: 20. Drinking milk: 3.

Hiccough and nausea.
Eructations: empty; tasteless; tasting like foul eggs; with vomiting of mucus.
Nausea and retching better after eating.

Pressure in stomach, like from a stone.
Pain in the stomach increased by pressure.

Stitches in the hypochondria; also from right to left.

Tympanitic distention of the abdomen and passage of much wind.
Griping and colicky pains.

Blind, painful hemorrhoids internally during and after stool; worse from cold or warm water; better from wetting with saliva.
Stools: painless, odorless, like scrapings from intestines; bright yellow, preceded by cutting and rumbling in abdomen; light yellow, slimy mucus; black fecal.
Diarrhœa: after every meal; at night.
Stool: hard, tough, brown and glistening; breaks to pieces like sheep dung.

Continued desire to urinate, with tickling sensation in tip of urethra.
Dribbling of urine, with burning, after urinating.
Urine: scanty and dark; turbid, and deposits a whitish sediment adhering to the vessel; leaves a red coating on vessel; contains large flakes of white mucus.

Increased sexual desire.
Nightly emission.
Hard, painless swelling of left testicle, painful when driving.
Coldness of left testicle.

Dull, constant pain in left ovary.
Hard swelling in ovarian region.
Menses: too early and too profuse; bright red blood; passive flow with much exhaustion; membranous shreds may pass off.
Suppression of menses. θ Scirrhus mammæ.
Headache on appearance of menses.
Violent contractive spasm before or during menses, lasting hours; leaving the abdomen sore.
Loud emission of flatus from vagina.
Vagina painful, as if sore.

Hard, uneven tumor in right mamma, firmly adherent to its surroundings, with lancinating pains, worse at night.

Cold sensation in larynx, with cold feeling when inspiring, after breakfast; better after shaving.
Larynx painful to touch; construction in larynx.
Scraping and rawness in larynx, provoking cough.
Contracted sensation internally, in the trachea, or feeling as if the pit of throat were pressed against the trachea.
Sensation of smoothness and emptiness, at a small spot in the larynx.
Voice: husky; hoarse, cannot speak clearly, loss of voice; weak and soft, with raw, scraped feeling in throat.

Gasping for breath, with wheezing and rattling in larynx, and spasmodic closure of glottis.
Deep, forcible inspiration, is necessary, from time to time.
Difficulty of breathing; cannot inspire deep enough.
Sensation as if the air passages were full of smoke.
Asthma of sailors, as soon as they "go ashore".
Difficult breathing, must sit up in bed at night.
Emphysema, rattling of mucus without choking.

Excited by: tickling in larynx; scraping and rawness in larynx; deep inspiration.
Cough, with sudden paroxysms of suffocation, on swallowing; respiration very short; obliged to catch for breath.
Whooping-cough, with croupish hoarseness of the cough.
Cough night and day, sounds loose, but no expectoration; aggravation from exercise and on entering a warm room.
Sensation of constriction impedes respiration, with dry, tickling cough.
Much rattling in larynx when coughing.

Affections begin in bronchi and ascend to larynx.
Sensation of weakness and exhaustion in the chest.
Pressure in upper part of chest.
Sharp stitches in right side of chest, especially when walking rapidly.
Cutting pains running upwards. θ Phthisis.
Right lung most affected.
Paralytic drawing pain through left chest, toward scapula and into left arm.
Hepatization of lower lobes in pneumonia.

Pulse much accelerated.
Violent palpitation of the heart in the evening, so that she cannot lie on the left side.
Cutting pains running upwards. θ Heart disease.

Pressure below left clavicle.
Tearing in left clavicle.
Stitching pain from mamma to the axilla, cannot bear pressure.

Stiffness of neck.
Tearing in right lumbar and dorsal muscles, increased by moving these parts.
Sore pain in small of back, unchanged by motion.

Great restlessness and jactitation of arms.
Left arm feels paralyzed.
Weakness of the arms.
Tearing in the arms, especially in hands and fingers.
Icy-cold forearms or only cold hands.

Pressive bone pain in left leg.
Boring pains in one or both tibiæ.

Rest: 5. Motion: 5, 31. Walking: 28. Riding on horseback gives general relief. Exercise: 27, 40. Exertion: 40. Driving: 22. Must sit up: 26. Cannot lie on left side: 29.

Tremulousness all over; great languor and debility.

Continued yawning with the respiratory troubles; child yawns frequently, and is drowsy.
Awakes unrefreshed; it seems impossible to rise.
Dreams: vivid; of ascending a height; of climbing a steep; of journeyings; of quarrels; of dying; of coffins and funerals.
Jumping up, out of sleep, with whistling breathing.
Starts from sleep with cough, drink relieves it.

Morning: 10, 11. Evening: 1, 4, 29. Night: 20, 22, 24, 27. Every other night: 40. Day and night: 27.

Heat of sun: 3. Entering warm room: 27. Damp weather: 2, 4. Warm water: 20. Cold water: 10, 14, 20. Wetting with saliva: 20. "On shore": 26.

Chill every other day, with shaking, yawning and stretching, and with cold feet.
Hands cold and moist.
Internal burning heat, like between the skin and flesh.
Sweat on the palms.
Sweat from the least exertion or exercise.

Periodical pains.

Right: 5, 6, 7, 9, 13, 24, 28, 31. Left: 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 22, 23, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33. Right to left: 7, 8, 18. Left to right: 9. Below upwards: 28, 29, 30.

Swelling and induration of the glands.
Enlargement of thyroid, in persons with light hair, blue eyes and fair skin.

Touch: 5, 25. Pressure: 17, 30. Shaving: 25.

Tickling, itching, pricking and stitches in the skin, at various places.
Pimples and pustules.
Boils on the arms and in the face.

Acts better, though not exclusively in person with light hair and blue eyes.
Increased embonpoint.

Bromium follows Spongia well, in croup.
Antidote: Amm. carb.

Dilutions are prepared from a solution of one part of Bromine in ninety-nine of distilled water.

The phenomena known as Bromism, produced by the bromides generally, is partially shadowed by our provings of pure Bromine; but our exact knowledge is imperfect. ▶ In Bromism we find intellectual weakness and melancholia; anæsthesia of mucous membranes, especially in throat and eyes, loss of sexual power, acne on the face, general paralysis. ▶ The effects of Bromine upon the larynx and trachea furnish most useful guides to its use in disease.

Iodine, Kali bi., Puls., Ant. crud., etc.

Embonpoint increased (Iod., emaciation). ▶ Cracking in joints in morning after rising. ▶ Clonic cramps in muscles of eyes, in face and limbs. ▶ Trembling. ▶ If introduced into a cut it becomes unhealthy-looking and green decay forms about it, with an offensive odor. ▶ Jerklike tearings through left thumb at 6 P.M., in frontal bone, through right great toe, in lower part of right leg, in right knee, with bruised pain when sitting in evening. ▶ Flesh feels loose and bruised on touch, especially on left side of chest. ▶ Pressure in single joints and in pectoral and dorsal muscles. ▶ Indisposition; mental and physical.

Sensation of fasting, with heaviness in head and stiffness in muscles of neck. ▶ Restlessness. ▶ Weakness; all the afternoon and evening, with sleepiness, when walking; trembling, at night on waking; after breakfast, as if bruised. ▶ Stiffness of throat in afternoon, and of neck, arms and legs, with pain extending from occiput towards forehead, shooting and dragging as if everything would press out in forepart of head. ▶ Aggravation from evening till midnight (Iod.); in warm room (Iod.) and when sitting; on right side; on left side. ▶ Amelioration after eating (Iod.); during motion; on walking; when riding horseback and driving; from ammonia-gas and vapor of spirits of wine.

For scrofulous children with enlarged parotids.

Illusions of fantasy, it seemed as if strange persons were looking over his shoulder. ▶ Obliged to look about him in evening when alone, and it seemed as if he would see an apparition. ▶ Anxiety. ▶ Apprehension in evening, with oppression of heart and headache. ▶ Fretfulness. ▶ Quarrelsome disposition. ▶ Taciturnity. ▶ Apathy, with weakness. ▶ Activity in business. ▶ Desire for mental labor. ▶ Aversion to his business. ▶ Indisposition for mental work. ▶ Disinclination to read. ▶ Disconcerted, with heat in head. ▶ Difficulty in fixing thoughts. ▶ Loss of ideas. ▶ Forgetfulness.

Aching; at 3 or 4 P.M., on appearance of menses; with here and there vertigo; in bones in damp weather, mostly in forehead and occiput; especially in forehead, alternating with pain in small of back; bursting pain, more on left side; dizzy, in morning on waking, with general itching, especially on chest and between shoulders. ▶ Confusion; with heaviness; especially in sinciput, with pressure on brows and root of nose, often affecting a spot above eyes, alternately in one or other side; as if a hoop were about it, causing vertigo. ▶ Sensation in brain soon after dinner (that was eaten with little appetite), as if apoplexy were imminent, a feeling as if he would loose his senses and have vertigo. ▶ Vertigo; as soon as he steps over running water, also with involuntary drawing of foot in direction of stream; agg. evening on lying down, with confusion of head; agg. damp weather; with feeling as if one would fall to the ground and flushes of heat; with nausea; with bleeding at nose, then headache; with tendency to fall backward.

Continue in Allen 65 more passages →

One of the most marked general indications for Bromium is its tendency to spasms or spasmodic attacks of various sorts. This is especially noticed in symptoms occurring in the throat and larynx. Unlike Iodine, its symptoms are rarely accompanied by fever.

Weakness; aggravation in a warm room.
Tearing or cutting pains.

Apathy.
Indisposition to any mental work.
Loss of ideas.
Forgetfulness.

Vertigo, < seeing running water, or by rapid motion.
Vertigo > nose-bleed.
Neuralgic pains, especially of the left side, < stooping.
Headache < the heat of the sun.

Sharp pains through the eyes.
Burning pains, with spasmodic closure of the eyes.

Roaring in the ears.

Obstinate coryza, with soreness of the margins of the nose and of the upper lip; with a stoppage and soreness of the right nostril.
Fluent coryza, with violent sneezing and corrosive discharge.
Coryza, with pressure at the root of the nose, excoriating discharge and internal soreness; the nose seems stopped.

Inflammation, with irritation, caused by spasmodic cough.
Tonsils inflamed, swollen, covered with mucus.
Uvula elongated, causing a spasmodic cough.

Tympanitic distention; discharge of much gas.
Flatulent distention, with pain in abdomen and small of back.

Hæmorrhoids, very painful.

Loud emissions of flatus from the vagina, with dysmenorrhœa.
(Membranous dysmenorrhœa); spasmodic contractions.

Scraping in the larynx, provoking a dry cough.
Rawness in the larynx, causing hawking.
A feeling of coldness during inspiration.
Constriction.
Spasmodic closure of the glottis.
A feeling as if the pit of the throat were pressed against the trachea.
Hoarseness and loss of voice.
Cough in suffocative paroxysms, suddenly on swallowing.
Cough on deep inspiration.
Cough hollow, dry.
Respiration oppressed, difficult; cannot inspire sufficient air > walking.
Respiration short; must catch for breath.
Need of taking deep, forcible inspirations.

Clinical:
Croup, diphtheritic; croup idiopathic.
In croup, Brom. is rarely indicated in the early stage; but when the febrile symptoms have subsided, the patient is weak, perspiring, has a hard, tight cough, which is spasmodic, with suffocative attacks and sometimes rattling of mucus in larynx; the element of spasm generally indicates the drug.
It follows well after Iodine.
Spasmodic croup symptoms, starting up as if choked, greater when drinking; every inspiration provokes cough.
Asthma in suffocative attacks; it seems as if the breathing were hindered by spasmodic constriction.
In pneumonia, for suffocative attacks; cannot expectorate.
Asthma greater at sea.

A feeling of anxiety in chest, with difficult breathing.
Sharp pains in the chest, extending inward, or toward the axilla.

Palpitation, with oppression.
(Hypertrophy of the heart.)

Yawning all day, with difficult breathing.
Sleepiness.

General tendency to coolness; shivering, with yawning and stretching.
Cold feet.
Cold, moist hands.

Brom. / (Brother.) / Broker.

Bromine,-We to thee assign,
Place with Sponge and Iodine,
As in goitre, hoarseness, croup,
Or a chest catarrhal group,
With a voice entirely gone,
Or a low and feeble one.
Thine though, as a special test,
Is a coldness in the chest.
Rawness, too, wherewith we note,
Pressure inward at the throat.
Of thy wife, we stop to say,
Wind, or shreds of membrane, may
During menses pass away.
Piles, and black stools, may obtain,
And perchance they testes pain.
Left side worse, and worse at night-
Motion giving some respite.

The Broker,-Has a coldness in the chest.

The Broker, Cistus Lob, has Peter Rex's square Club.

This Broker,-Who is subject to Loss of voice, -Is up in Stanley's Car, on the coast, sporting with the Ammonite bums.

Coldness in the Chest: Brom., Cist., Lob., Pet., Rum. c., Sul., Ipe., Rhus., Lyc. (Right lung, Sul.-Left lung, Pet.- Coldness on inspiration, Brom., Rhus, Sul.)

Loss of Voice or Feeble Voice: Brom., Pho., Stan., Carb. v., Caust., Spo., Amb. b., Am. i., Bell., Mer., Sul. (Sudden, Alu., Bell., Gel., Glo.)

Indicated in respiratory troubles, chiefly those affecting the larynx and trachea; especially adapted to children of fair, delicate complexion and scrofulous diathesis, subject to spasmodic cough. In croup; occasionally in asthma.

Coryza, with pressure at the root of the nose; nostrils raw and sore.

Great hoarseness.

Sensation of coldness when inspiring, provoking cough. Spasmodic cough, with rattling of mucus, without choking.

Oppression of the chest; difficult and painful breathing.

Worse in the early part of the night; in a warm room.

Better from exercise.

Depression and melancholy. Wailing and crying in a hoarse tone. Apprehensive, of seeing things in evening. Desire form mental labor.

When crossing running water, in damp weather, with tendency to fall backwards, with confusion of the head.

Headache: In the heat of the sun, from drinking milk. Sensitive to cold air. Congestion to, and stiffness of muscles of neck. Left sided pains. Worse: Stooping.

Lachrymation. Burning pains with spasmodic closure.

Fluent coryza, with scabby nostrils, with violent sneezing and blood - streaked corrosive discharges. nose - bleed accompanies many symptoms, it ameliorates the vertigo, eye and chest symptoms.

Pale. Sensation of a cobweb on.

Salivation. Inflammation of fauces, with net - like redness and denuded patches. Much frothy mucus in. Affects tip of tongue.

Taste: Salty: Of water, on tip of tongue.

Rawness, scrapping and constriction in.

Nausea, etc. - Retching and inclination to vomit.

Tympanitic distension of, with evolution of large quantities of gas. Eructations, and passage of much flatus.

Yellowish green or blackish diarrhoea, with blind hemorrhoids which pain severely. Diarrhoea: From oysters, better from coryza.

Passage of flatus from vagina.

Suffocative attacks as from vapor of sulphur. Great tightness of chest (dyspnoea) Gasping for air. Rawness, scraping and sense of constriction in all respiratory organs.

Croupy, rough, barking or whistling, excited by tickling in throat, as from vapor of sulphur, or by scraping and rawness in larynx, without expectoration. With paroxysms of suffocation, suddenly on swallowing.

Inspired air is very cold. Constriction. Soreness in. Croup, also during whooping cough. Hoarseness.

Oppression of, with palpitation. Very sensitive to cold air.

Cold, moist hands.

Greatly increased secretions. Symptoms predominate on left side or go from left to right. tickling, burning or boring sensations predominate, the latter especially in bones. Gangrene. Great weakness, especially in bones. Gangrene. Great weakness, especially after other symptoms have subsided. Tremblings. Plump figure. Constrictions and spasmodic phenomena prevail.

Glands swollen and indurated.

Formication. Tickling in many parts. Yellow, Boils.

Yawning and sleepiness, with difficult breathing, with violent shivering.

Pulse: Greatly accelerated. Chill: Every other day, with shaking, yawning, stretching and cold feet. Sensitive to cold air. Heat: Internal, burning as if between skin and flesh. Great, when in bed. Sweat: From motion or least exertion. After the paroxysms of cough.

Allied Remedies: AM-C., Ant-c., Ars., Com., Coff., Flu-ac., Hep., Iod., Kre., Mag-c., Nat-m., Op., Phos., Spo.

Faucial angina and very sore throat.

General trembling.

A sensation of something being alive in the skin, principally in the arms and legs.

Great watchfulness in the evening.

He has much trouble in getting to sleep at night.

Anguish in sleep, and sleep full of dreams.

Constant dreaming in sleep.

Jerking and starting whilst in sleep.

When getting awake at night trembling and sensation as if she could not rise for weakness.

Fantasy and illusions when asleep.

He perspires freely when exercising a little.

Excellent for patients in very bad humor.

Quarrelsomeness.

Dizziness when lying down, with headache, especially in the evening.

Dizziness when going over a running water.

The majority of the symptoms are more felt when at rest and lying than when moving about.

Complaints on the left side of the body.

Aggravation of the symptoms in the evening and before mid-night.

He cannot sleep enough in the morning.

He feels unrefreshed in the morning.