On the physiological and medicinal properties of bromine and its compounds : also on the analogies between the physiological and medicinal properties of these bodies, and those of chlorine and iodine, with their correspondent compounds : being the Harveian Prize Essay for 1842 / by R. M. Glover.

  • Glover, Robert Mortimer, 1816-1859.
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[1842]
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Credit: On the physiological and medicinal properties of bromine and its compounds : also on the analogies between the physiological and medicinal properties of these bodies, and those of chlorine and iodine, with their correspondent compounds : being the Harveian Prize Essay for 1842 / by R. M. Glover. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    had been felt in the throat was no longer experienced ; then the glands began to suppurate; the internal treatment produced no constitutional effect. I owe this case to Mr Brown of Jarrow. Case XV.—Scrofulous enlargement of the glands of the neck in a girl aged 16, treated by the bromide of iron internally, and ointment of bromine and hydrobromate of potass externally. The internal remedy was given in the dose of forty drops of a solution of one drachm in two fluid ounces of water twice a-day ; the ex- ternal application was of the same strength as in the preceding case. The treatment was continued from the 22d of June 1841, to the 11th of August, when the general health was much improv- ed, but little effect had been produced on the tumours. Case XVI.—Hypertrophy of the submaxillary gland in a youth aged 18. Treatment and result similar to that in the preceding case. The internal remedy caused some degree of diarrhoea. Case XVII.—Case of rupia treated by lotion of bromine ex- ternally, and the bromide of iron internally. The patient, aged 28, was treated in the Newcastle Infirmary by Dr Cargill. While the sores of one leg were treated by the lotion of bromine of the strength of forty minims to the pint, those of the other leg had ni- trate of silver applied ; the superiority of the latter application Avas very evident. The bromine produced soreness, and a serous exu- dation from the ulcers ; the ointment of nitrate of silver, on the other hand, only caused temporary pain, and was soon the means of forming a dry scale. Two drachms of the bromide of iron were dissolved in two fluid ounces of water, and the patient had twenty drops three times a day. The treatment was commenced on the 22d day of February J 841. The external treatment by bromine was soon suspended. The dose of the internal remedy was gradually increased to 100 drops three times a day. This large dose on the 22d of March had produced no unpleasant symp- tom, but great improvement of the appetite and increase of strength appeared to have resulted from its use. The rupia got well un- der the application of nitrate of silver. Case XVIII.—Chronic rheumatism in a man aged 24. Here the internal use of the bromide of iron in the dose of six grains thrice a day gave rise to severe pain of the head and chest. (New- castle Infirmary.) Remarks.—The cases whose prominent features I have thus endeavoured to describe can be only supposed to give the slio-ht- est possible foundation on which to frame inductions with regard to the real therapeutic power of bromine and its compounds? I should be induced to recommend the external use of bromine in scaly dartrous affections of a peculiarly inveterate character, in specific and malignant ulcers where there is defective action, and in the form of lotion the element furnishes an elegant and cleanly