Kali Bromatum

Authorities. 64, Humerdinger die Wirkun des Broms nnd ein Brompraparate, Inaug. Diss., Tubingen, 1838 ; 65, Dr. David Lees, Horn. World, vol. xii, 1877, p. 371, a child, set. nine months, took 9 drachms, in fourteen or fifteen days, for epileptic convulsions ; 66, B. Fincke, M.D., The Organon, vol. i, 1878, p. 343, a young surgeon took 10 grains in one dose, for excessive sexual excitement after mental overwork.

Peculiar biting salt taste of the drug lasted a long time,®*.—Frequent micturition,®*.—He immediately had burning in stomach, going into aching, empty gone feeling relieved by eating, for from one to two days. Then urinary symptoms ; passed water in immense quantities, with distress, as if so full that he could scarcely contain himself; frequent urination, very pale, watery, every five or ten minutes, fora week (in one day amounting to a gallon). The sixth or seventh day, suddenly, a neuralgia in spine came on* after throbbing from head to feet, worse in abdominal organs, commencing in lumbar region, spreading up to dorsal region, and down to coccyx, and going around the body half way, going into the intestines, and all through him; dull pain at the time, sometimes sharp twinges going up and down the marrow. Nothing would relieve the pain. Craving for wine. The very thought of tobacco nauseated him, though used to take a cigar after dinner. Port wine relieved the pain by making him eat, though he threw up his dinner. The pain seemed to go away by that time (one to two days). He took one dose Kali brom. 1 m. (Fincke) double graft, which did nothing while he had this pain, also Niu vom. 1 m., which did not seem to act. He threw himself down, closed his eyes, seemed above the earth, as if he were in a higher plane (twenty minutes after taking), feeling- quite happy, as if his happiness was not of the earth. The digestive symptoms commenced soon after taking. Aversion to coffee, which he used to drink. When the neuralgia left him these urinary symptoms commenced: pain on urinating, smarting, burning pain, sensation on urination as if a shot were forced from the bladder along the urethra, passing constantly large quantities of water. Just at the last drop of urine, spasmodic constriction of urethra about the lacuna, with real, sharp pain running along back in the bladder, like forcing a large instrument in a small place. Then a regular gonorrhoea set in, whitish-yellow discharge for two or three days (never had anything the like). Every second or third day the smarting came on late in the afternoon, and kept him awake all night. He now passes less water. Canth. 2 c. and Cann. sat. did nothing. Only bathing the parts in ice-water gave relief. Since the gonorrhoea the sexual excitement subsided. The urinary symptoms irritated him most; he cannot do anything, cannot go into society. If he sees Bromide of potassium, or any kind of Potash, it makes him sick in the stomach. Hands tremble. On November 9th gave him Camphor (Borneo) 9 m. (Fincke) seven powders, one every night. On November 11th had an awful time, burning and smarting in urethra, could only get relief by injection of cold water. November 16th, to-day and yesterday passed much water without smarting, had not to get up at night. The urine was free from sugar and albumen. Last night, after a slight burning and a sensation of a ball passing forced from behind at the neck of the bladder, passed about ^ ounce of liquid like white of egg, with a little mucus like milk, without seminal smell (? prostatic). Since then everything is right, and he is himself again. A^yesterday morning terrible pain in right eye, as if it were pressed out (Camphor sym])tom),“.—The convulsions disappeared as the eruption came out. Each spot of skin disease seemed to have commenced as a papule of acne. This enlarged and spread, and the elevated spots became united in areas. On these areas peculiar yellowish points then were developed beneath the surface, neither coalescing nor bursting. On the surface a crust appeared, which seemed due to dried secretion ; and, where this was subjected to friction, the surface became peculiarly papillated. Especially characteristic were the yellowish points described. An interesting fact was that the rash did not make its appearance until four days after the drug had been given up,®^