The Richmond medical journal . Vol. V. JANUARY, 1868. No. J. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. Qui. Docet Discit. Art. I.—Bromide of Potassium. By A. M. Fauntleroy,M. D., Staunton, Va. In the old chemical nomenclature, this salt was called thehydrobromate of potassa. The first description which we haveof it is by Balard, in 1826. Pourche first applied it remediallyin scrofula and goitre, 1828. Being a haloid salt, its effectswere thought to be analogous, though feebler, to the iodide ofpotassium, in syphilis and glandular enlargements. In thecomparative trial of their virtues, the bromide yielded unsat
The Richmond medical journal . Vol. V. JANUARY, 1868. No. J. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. Qui. Docet Discit. Art. I.—Bromide of Potassium. By A. M. Fauntleroy,M. D., Staunton, Va. In the old chemical nomenclature, this salt was called thehydrobromate of potassa. The first description which we haveof it is by Balard, in 1826. Pourche first applied it remediallyin scrofula and goitre, 1828. Being a haloid salt, its effectswere thought to be analogous, though feebler, to the iodide ofpotassium, in syphilis and glandular enlargements. In thecomparative trial of their virtues, the bromide yielded unsatis-factory results, M. Huette, (Ann. de Therapeutique, 1851.)Pereira thought this salt analogous in its effects to the iodideof Only within a few years past has this salt beenused in such doses as to disclose its possession of virtues differ-ing in their quality and value from those ascribed to a sorbe-facient. Sir Charles Locock appears to have been the first to admin-ister this remedy with a view to its sedativrichmondmedicalj05rich
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