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the submaxillary, are enormously enlarged and very hard. The processes of inflammation are slow; theyare not that rapid, violent kind like we find in Bell. and Merc. "Parts that inflame infiltrate, becominghard" Inflammation with hardness is the idea. It has been very useful in ulcers with this infiltration;very useful in enlarged glands with great hardness, without any tendency to suppurate. Glands take ontuberculosis, and tissues take on tuberculosis. Glands that inflame for a while begin to take on a lowerform of degeneration, a lower form of tissue making. It is very similar to these enlarged, hard,scrofulous glands that we find in the neck; enlargement of the parotid and submaxillary. It has curedenlargement and great hardness of the thyroid gland.Again, we have emaciation, and when we see the tendency to infiltration it is not strange that ithas been a curative medicine in cancer and tuberculosis. There is weakness in this remedy. The legsbecome weak. Growing prostration, with tremulous limbs. Twitching; tremulous weakness; fainting. Inthe catarrhal affections there is a formation, more or less, of membrane.Membranous exudate is a natural course of events. A natural feature of the mucous membrane isinfiltration, so that the mucous membrane appears to exude little grayish-white vegetations, andbeneath them is induration. That is true in ulcers, it is true in mucous membrane. An ulcer will formupon the mucous membrane and eat in, and build beneath it a hardened stratum of tissue. It has febrileconditions along with these catarrhal states. Great nervous excitement. "Icy coldness of the limbs"."Heat of the head". "Dyspnoea, with great sweating".Croupy manifestations.Running through most of the complaints there is palpitation.Palpitation with nausea, palpitation with headache, palpitation with various kinds of nervousexcitement. So weak is he gradually becoming that he has an "aversion to every kind of work; toreading. Takes no interest in household duties". Becomes indifferent. Very tired. "Great depression ofspirits. Low spirited. Sad and discouraged". Anxiety with most complaints.Headaches from becoming overheated. "Noise in the ears. Throbbing and burning in the ears".And then the complaints of the glands that are so closely associated with the ears. With ear troubles,enlargement of the glands; the parotid becomes enlarged and hard.Ear affections following scarlet fever with discharges from the ears. Pains and aches;inflammation; abscess of the ear.Suppuration of the parotid gland occasionally, but it is an exception. "Swelling and hardness ofthe left parotid gland". The ovaries, testes, etc., are all affected by Bromium.Bleeding of the nose. Ulcerations in the nose. Catarrhal affections of the nose. Much sneezing.Acute coryza, violent, with much burning in the nose, and a sensation of coldness, as if the mucousmembrane of the nose were cold from inhaling cold air.It is useful for June cold, with the first first weather in June, or if the first hot weather comes inJuly. Violent coryza once a year, during the hot season. Fluent coryza, with headaches. "The nose issore and the wings of the nose swell. Scurf forms on it, with pain and bleeding on wiping it". Rawnessround about the nostrils. A Bromium patient is one that is likely to have flushed face, especially thosedue to acute Bromium conditions. "Flushed face". He becomes heated easily. But this is entirely theopposite of the chronic constitutional Bromium condition. That is true with a good many remedies,especially many of the antipsorics. The old sickly broken-down constitutions, those needing Bromiumfor chronically enlarged glands, for goiter, for cancerous affections, will have the "gray, earthy color ofthe face. Oldish appearance". It is a sickly face, an ash-colored face. "Face ashy gray". Then again wehave children that are plethoric, with red face, easily overheated. Of course, when the acute condition ison and the breathing has been that of dyspnoea for several hours or many days, then the patientbecomes cyanotic, gasping for breath, and choking, the face becomes ashy pale, as it is in diphtheria, incroup, and in laryngeal affections."Stony, hard swelling of glands, especially of the lower jaw throat". We find that repeated inmany divisions of the subject.Many of the throat complaints that are laid down in Bromium begin in the larynx and creep upinto the throat. Some of them begin in the throat and go down into the larynx; but the two are so closelyassociated in Bromium that both are likely to be affected; so that diphtheria spreads from one to theother.Diphtheria begins in the throat and goes into the larynx. Bromium fits the most malignant typeof diphtheria. The membrane grows like a weed shuts off breathing, closes up the larynx. So severe arethe cases, that though he has been sick but two or three days, and even when Bromium has masteredthe case, the patient is left with great prostration. All those that belong to Bromium are of that type.Great violence; "great prostration. Extremely sick, and with deathly weakness. A great many of thecures that have been performed in the throat have been left-sided diphtheria; yet it has cured both sides.