Camphora bromata camph-br.

Mono-bromide of Camphor (CAMPHORA MONO-BROMATA)

Nervous excitability is the guiding condition. Suppression of milk. Nightly emissions. Painful erections. Paralysis agitans. Cholera infantum, and infantile convulsions. Intensifies the action of Quinine and renders it more permanent.

Directions appear reversed, i.e, north seems south, and east seems west. Hysteria; weeping and laughing alternately. Trance-like state.

Second trituration.

Monobromide of Camphor; a compound in which one atom of hydrogen of the camphor has been replaced by one of bromine. C 10 H 15 Br O. Trituration.

Cholera infantum. Chordee. Direction, sense of, lost. Gastric catarrh. Hysteria. Influenza. Irritation in acute eczema. Nervous excitability. Sleep, disorders of. Spermatorrhœa.

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. Spermatorrhœa.

The monobromide of Camphor may be dissolved in Alcohol for dilutions.

Restlessness at night. ▶ Dull headache all over head in afternoon; heavy headache extending to occiput. ▶ Appearance all day of fine snowflakes falling straight down before eyes. ▶ Sharp aching in jaws. ▶ Discomfort about jaws, waking at night. ▶ Sore and stiff feeling in jaws and throat. ▶ Sharp shooting in teeth. ▶ Dryness of mouth and throat, with bitter taste. ▶ Sudden violent vomiting, with little nausea. ▶ Burning in stomach, then diarrhœa. ▶ Catharsis at 5 A.M. and about every hour all the forenoon, and about every fifteen minutes from 2 P.M. till midnight. ▶ Suppression of milk. ▶ Respiration and pulse slower. ▶ Temperature fell one degree. ▶ Heat.

Doziness, but not sleep in the natural acceptation of the word, rather a species of trance, eyes open and senses as acute as ever, perhaps more so, but the points of compass seemed reversed, at first these trances lasted five or ten minutes, finally four days, with ghastly dreams at night, in the day vision of large black flies coursing to and fro in swarms, lances of pain shot from temple to temple, and at base of brain a dull benumbing pressure extending towards coronal region, fell into a uneasy drowse about midnight and slumbered for several hours without real rest.