Med. [f. BROM-INE + -ISH.] ‘The condition produced by an overdose or too long continuance of bromine or a bromide’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.); but used almost exclusively of the effects of potassium bromide.
1867. Trousseau’s Clin. Med., in N. Syd. Soc. Trans., I. 101, note. The exhibition of large doses of Bromide of Potassium is soon followed by the marked and characteristic phenomena of Bromism.
1875. H. Wood, Therap. (1879), 323. When it [Bromide of Potassium] is taken with sufficient freedom to accumulate in the system, a conjunction of phenomena known as bromism arises. The cerebral symptoms are a sense of mental weakness, heaviness of intellect, failure of memory, partial aphasia, and depression of spirits.
