BROMUM
By C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica
REGION
- LARYNX.
- RESPIRATION.
- Heart.
- Circulation.
- Glands: Parotid. Thyroid. Ovaries. Mammæ.
WORSE
- WARM: DAMPNESS. Overheating. Room.
- Chilled while hot.
- Sea bathing.
- Dust.
- Drafts.
- Until midnight.
BETTER
- 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.