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Bromium. – THE GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA By CONSTANTINE HERING, M.D.

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[1] Mind.

[2]
Sensorium.

[3]
Inner head.

[4]
Outer head.

[5]
Sight and eyes.

[6]
Hearing and ears.

[7]
Smell and nose.

[8]
Upper face.

[9]
Lower face.

[10]
Teeth and gums.

[11]
Taste, speech, tongue.

[12]
Inner mouth.

[13]
Palate and throat.

[14]
Appetite, thirst. Desires..

[15]
Eating and drinking.

[16]
Hiccough, belching, nausea..

[17] Scrobiculum and stomach.

[18]
Hypochondria.

[19]
Abdomen and loins.

[20]
Stools and rectum.

[21]
Urinary organs.

[22]
Male sexual organs.

[23]
Female sexual organs.

[24]
Pregnancy. Parturition..

[25] Voice and larynx. Trachea..

[26]
Respiration.

[27]
Cough.

[28]
Inner chest and lungs.

[29]
Heart, pulse and circulation.

[30]
Outer chest.

[31]
Neck and back.

[32]
Upper limbs.

[33] Lower limbs.

[34]
Limbs in general.

[35]
Rest. Position. Motion.

[36]
Nerves.

[37]
Sleep.

[38]
Time.

[39]
Temperature and weather.

[40]
Fever.

[41]
Attacks, periodicity.

[42]
Locality and direction.

[43]
Sensations.

[44]
Tissues.

[45]
Touch. Injuries..

[46]
Skin.

[47]
Stage of life, constitution.

[48]
Relations.

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HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] [Brom.]

Hiccough and nausea.

Eructations : empty ; tasteless ; tasting like foul eggs ; with vomiting of mucus.

Nausea and retching, better after eating.

Nausea. θ Diarrhœa.

Vomiting of bloody mucus.

   

SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] [Brom.]

Emptiness of stomach. θ Diarrhœa.

Feeling of emptiness in stomach ; better after eating, for which, however, he had no longing.

Feeling of heaviness in stomach. θ Inflammation of stomach.

Contractive cramp in stomach at 11.30 A. M., ceases after eating.

Pressure in stomach, like from a stone. θ Emphysema.

Pain in stomach increased by pressure.

   

HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] [Brom.]

Pain in region of liver.

Stitches in hypochondria ; also from right to left.

Stitches shooting from liver towards navel.

Sensation as of a ball in left hypochondrium.

Enlargement and induration of spleen. θ After maltreated gonorrhœa.

   

ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] [Brom.]

Griping and colicky pains.

Off and on a very strong pain and sore feeling in lower l. part of abdomen. θ Mental derangement.

Periodically much pain in left hypochondriac and iliac regions ; pain is violent, as if there were sore spots inside. θ Mental derangement.

Pains in abdomen and small of back ; passage of much flatus.

Tympanitic distension of abdomen, and passage of much wind.

Flatulence. θ Eczema.

Painless swelling of right inguinal glands.

Pain in left inguinal canal, especially on walking, pressure and coughing.

Eruption on perineum.

   

STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] [Brom.]

Croup of colon.

Black, fecal stools.

Yellow, green or blackish diarrhœa.

Stools : bright yellow, preceded by cutting and rumbling in abdomen ; light yellow, slimy mucus ; painless, odorless, like scrapings from intestines.

Diarrhœa after every meal ceases, but returns after oysters.

Diarrhœa : after every meal ; at night.

Constipation : stool hard, tough, brown and glistening ; breaks to pieces like sheep-dung.

Before stool : rumbling and cutting pain in abdomen.

During stool : much flatus ; painful hemorrhoids ; pressing in stomach and abdomen.

Blind, painful hemorrhoids during and after stool ; < from cold or warm water ; > from wetting with saliva.

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

Varices < from application of cold and warm water. θ Diarrhœa.

   

URINARY ORGANS. [21] [Brom.]

Continued desire to urinate, with tickling sensation in tip of urethra.

Frequent urination.

High-colored urine. θ Eczema.

Urine : scanty and dark ; turbid, and deposits a whitish sediment adhering to vessel ; leaves a red coating on vessel ; contains large flakes of white mucus, like jelly.

Dribbling of urine, with burning after urinating.

   

MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] [Brom.]

Increased sexual desire.

Nightly emissions.

Coldness of left testicle.

Hard, painless swelling of left testicle, painful when driving.

Swelling of testicle, remaining after gonorrhœa three months ago, size of a hen’s egg, oval round, somewhat hard, not very sensitive to pressure, smooth ; pains most when driving ; Brom. [2] in water, three times daily, helped in three weeks,
while working as a coachman.

Swelling and induration of left testicle, with sore pain, or sensation of coldness.

Swelling of scrotum. θ Chronic gonorrhœa.

Stitches in glans and sides of penis.

   

FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] [Brom.]

Continual dull pain in region of left ovary ; mild fluor albus ; no thrill in coition ; childless after eight years marriage ; strong woman, æt. 30 ; conception in three months.

Considerable pain in back and ovarian region. θ Mental derangement.

Constant, dull, boring pain in ovary. θ Dropsy.

Hard swelling in ovarian region.

Swelling and hardness of left ovary.

Swelling of ovarian region before and during menses.

Uterus descends about 2 inches. θ Mental derangement.

Menses too early and too profuse ; bright red blood ; passive flow with much exhaustion ; membranous shreds may pass.

Headache on appearance of menses.

Fulness in head and chest, with difficult respiration a few days before catamenia.

Indescribable, queer ill feeling all over, which makes her low-spirited, a few days before catamenia.

Violent contractive spasm before or during menses, lasting hours ; leaving abdomen sore.

Before menses : stitches in abdomen ; backache ; feeling of weakness and want of appetite.

During menses : pain in abdomen and small of back ; abdominal cramps, with subsequent soreness in abdomen ; frontal pain, feeling as if eyes would drop out while stooping.

Suppression of menses. θ Scirrhus mamma.

Loud emission of flatus from vagina. θ Dysmenorrhœa.

Vagina painful, as if sore.

Much itching in vagina. θ Mental derangement.

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