This section is from the book "Materia Medica And Therapeutics Inorganic Substances", by Charles D. F. Phillips. Also available from Amazon: Materia medica and therapeutics.
In the restlessness and nerve-irritation or convulsion sometimes attendant on dentition, bromides are exceedingly useful, "so that the gum-lancet is scarcely ever needed." The convulsions even of meningitis I have frequently seen arrested by the bromides.
 
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