Ferrum Bromatum

Bromide of Iron. Fe Br,. Trituration. Solution.

Clinical

Headache. Leucorrhoea. Spermatorrhoea. Uteros, prolapse of.

Characteristics

Hale mentions this remedy as having been highly commended to him in cases of spermatorrhoea with anaemia, debility, and depression. It has been since proved by Dr. Sarah N. Smith, of New York, who took the sixth dilution of Boericke and Tafel's make (Amer. Horn,, xxi. 302). It produced (in this order) : Very distinct symptoms in the head and eyes ; dry mouth and nose, relieved by coryza ; a feeling that she might die ; diarrhoea ; burning in urethra when urinating ; sticky, excoriating leucorrhoea ; weight and discomfort in uterus. The symptoms which made the most impression on the proverwere the "dead, numb" feeling of the scalp ; the unconscious moaning after stool ; and the sticky, excoriating leucorrhoea. The heaviness and discomfort in the uterus was so severe that she declined to continue the proving as it interfered with her work.

Relations p. 760

Heavy eyes, Con., Caust., Gels. Smarting while urinating, Can. s. (Can. s. has burning while urinating and after),

Mind p. 760

Woke at 2 a.m. with the feeling that I might die, which lasted for a few moments and passed away. Recurred three different mornings at the same hour (9 o'clock).

Head p. 760

Severe internal pressure in occiput, producing a painful sensation in ears, as if they were pressed from within outwards ; after a few hours the same feeling extended to vertex, producing a dead, numb feeling of the scalp extending from occiput to vertex. — Head feels enlarged in all directions, the ears seeming to stand out from the head.

Eyes p. 760

Heavy feeling in the eyes and drooping of lids, could not keep eyes open. — Dull appearance of eyes.

Nose p. 760

Dryness of nose. — Dryness of nose and mouth > by coryza.

Mouth p. 760

Mouth very dry. — Tongue dry and stiffened on waking,

Abdomen p. 760

Much rumbling in l. hypochondrium, accompanied with diarrhoea.

Stool and Anus p. 760

Diarrhoea followed with a bloody mucus and tenesmus, with the sensation that the lower bowel protruded. — After the diarrhoeic stool, unconscious moaning, heard in the next room, accompanied with a distressed noise in the head. — Stools excoriating and frequent.

Urinary Organs p. 760

Burning, smarting pain in urethra while urinating (appeared near end of week of proving and continued after it).

Male Sexual Organs p. 760

Spermatorrhoea.

Female Sexual Organs p. 760

As the excoriating stools decreased in frequency, a sticky mucus-like excoriating leucorrhoea came on; with the appearance of the discharge came the descent of the uterus, which continued for a week or more, and the discharge several days beyond. — " The uterus seems heavy and uncomfortable, so that it interferes with my work. I can scarcely get up and down stairs."