Violent thirst (suppuration of lungs). Desire for fat, herring, chalk, lime, earth. Loves fat, salt. Aversion to meat, bread. Milk disagrees. Hunger with sweet taste. Constipation with fissures in rectum. Tearing pains during stools. Violent cutting pains after stools lasting for hours; urine cold on passing, smells like horses urine. Sweating of palms and hands. Fetid sweat of feet and cold hands. White spots on finger nails, suppressed foot sweat. Restless limbs in evening. Condylomata; great inclination to take cold. Pains felt during sleep. Splinter-like pains. Emaciation of upper arms and thighs. Yellow curved nails. Extreme soreness of tibia. Sensitive to cold, always chilly. When coughing stitches in the small of the back.
Aggravation: From becoming cold. In cold air; jar; noise; evening; night; after midnight. Contact; change of temperature or weather. During sweat; on walking. Milk; abuse of mercury; cold climate. Hot weather; Lying down. Lying on the back. Breathing (cough).
Amelioration: From Eructations. While riding in a carriage. Expectoration (Easy breathing).
BROMIUM
Type: Lobar Pneumonia Emphysema following Pneumonia.
Stages: Second stage.
Location: Lower lobe of right lungs. Lower lobes.
Causes: Over-heated, becoming; cold air. Cold water. Cold diet. Cold damp weather. Heat of sun.
Expectoration: Bloody; difficult; scanty; yellow. Plenty of mucus but cannot expectorate it.
Cough: Dry spasmodic cough worse by talking, in hot room, rough barking cough from tickling in the throat with short and hurried breathing. Much rattling in larynx during respiration and more during cough. Dry spasmodic wheezing cough with rattling breathing. Dry tickling cough. Loose cough night and day and no expectoration.
Respiration: Rattling. Short hurried breathing. Inspiration very difficult. Cannot inspire deep enough. Respiration very short; obliged to catch for breath. Sensation as if air passages were full of smoke. Sensation as if he could not get air enough into the chest. “Seems as if he could not get enough air into the chest. Every inspiration provokes cough. Bronchitis, great dyspnoea.
Pain: Feeling of exhaustion and weakness in chest. Constriction; cold feeling in chest, cold sensation when inspiring. Dry cough with hoarseness and burning pain behind sternum. Difficult and painful breathing. Chest pains run upward.
Pulse: Pulse much accelerated.
Patient: “Children having thin white, delicate skin, very light hair and eyebrows.” Persons with light-blue eyes. Blonde; red-cheeked; scrofulous children with enlarged glands. “Persons with light hair and blue eyes”. Lippe.
Conditions: Nose bleed. Fan-like motion of the wings of nose. Seems as if he could not get enough air into the chest. Plenty of mucus in chest but the patient cannot expectorate it. Lower lobe of right lung is affected. Stitches in the chest, inflammation of lungs, right side. Soreness and roughness in the chest. Palpitation, cannot lie on left side. Violent oppression of the chest; cold feeling in chest; emphysema following pneumonia, cannot lie down at night, fears suffocation. Loose cough but no expectoration; every inspiration provokes cough; great dyspnoea; bronchial tubes feel filled with smoke.
Accompaniments: Bleeding of the nose relieving the chest (Nit-ac); burning from the mouth to the stomach. Heat in the mouth; craving for acids; water tastes saltish; diarrhoea stools yellow, green, black. Glands of stony hardness; trembling and weak on awaking; hoarseness; sensation of cobweb on the face; cold sensation in larynx on inspiration; larynx drawn down; difficult breathing with rattling through the chest; bronchitis and Pneumonia.
Aggravation: In the first part of the night; warm room; warm damp weather; when at rest; lying on left side; cold air, cold water, heat of sun.
Amelioration: Motion; exercise, at sea.
Calcutta