Scraping and rawness provoking dry cough; in the evening.
A feeling as if the pit of the throat were pressed against the trachea.
Cough with paroxysms of suffocation.
Rattling of mucus in larynx when coughing: cough sounds croupy.
DIPHTHERIA, when disease commences in larynx and comes up to fauces; or in some cases where it runs down to larynx, with croupy cough and rattling of mucus.
No choking with cough, as with Hepar.
Much rattling in larynx when breathing: more when coughing.
Danger of suffocation from phlegm in larynx. (Ant. tart. has rattling lower down in chest.)
Croupous inflammation formed by exuberant growth of fungi. (Diphtheria.)
Constriction of CHEST; no cough; with difficulty of breathing.
ASTHMA of sailors as soon as they go ashore.
Symptoms of croup during whooping cough.
Icy cold forearms.
Diphtheria: great weakness and lassitude when all symptoms have passed off.
Blonde, red-cheeked, scrofulous girls.
Scrofulous swelling, glands, several already in suppuration: thyroid; testes; submaxillary; parotid.
KENT says of Bromium:- “Its complaints come on in the night, after a very hot day; yet after the complaint comes on, he is so dreadfully sensitive to cold that a draft of cool air freezes him to the bone.
“Bromine infiltrates glands: which become hard but seldom suppurate. Inflammation with hardness is the idea.
“Bromium fits the most malignant type of diphtheria. The membrane grows like a weed; shuts off breathing; closes up the larynx.”.
