PSYCHICAL SYMPTOMS FROM POTASSIUM BROMIDE

Sir Charles Locock and potassium bromide.

On 12 May 1857, Edward Sieveking read a paper on epilepsy to the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society in London. During the discussion that followed Sir Charles Locock, obstetrician to Queen Victoria, was reported to have commented that during the past 14 months he had used potassium bromide to successfully stop epileptic seizures in all but one of 14 or 15 women with 'hysterical' or catamenia...

Bromide of Potassium in Writer's Palsy

heard of its being given, though very likely others have tried it, and its effects were, i may say, so startling that I ask you to publish the case. I was consulted recently by an English gentleman on account of that very troublesome affection, writer's spasm, from which he had been suffering for 9 months. He was in good general health, but the spasm of his right hand was so bad whenever be hel...

Bromide of Potassium as an Antidote to Chloroform

Rare Gas Mobility in Pure and Doped Potassium Bromide

The mobility of the inert gases argon and xenon in pure and doped single crystals of KBr was studied. The gases were introduced by ion bombardment. The recently established system of stages was used to interpret the results. Normal volume diffusion was found for xenon at low gas concentration, the activation enthalpy being 1.4 + 0.2 eV. This release was independent of doping, thus favoring a tr...

Synthesis of Triethyl Propargyl Ammonium Bromide from Triethyl Amine With Propargyl Bromide

The reaction between trimethylamine with propargyl bromide was studied and the structure of triethyl propargyl ammonium bromide was illustrated by 1HNMR, IR, and Mass spectra.