BROMBERG

(53° 7’ N., 18° E. when ited Pru ia; iron foundries. Po, Victor France, BROMINE (Br., At. Wt. 80), no! metallic element, chemically simil: Broglie to chlorine, heavy, dark-red liqu giving off red, evil-smelling (Gk. bromo an a stench), poisonous vapor; B.P. 59-60 solidifies at-24°; sp. g. 3.19; soluble; Charles dip water, solution having bleaching power (1757-94), B. occurs combined with pota ium an and sodium in sea and some mineral wate (6) and salt beds. B. and its compounc (1785are used in photography, medicir keep (those of pota ium and sodium < valuable sedatives), and manufactw violent by of coal-tar colors. ee town, Kent, England. Po, 21’ silver BRONCHIECTASIS, a cylindrical saccular dilatation of the bronchi: to tubes, most often occurring with chron: bronchitis or chronic pneumonia. or return BRONCHITIS, inflammation of +t brokerage. mucous membrane of the bronchi: A b. tubes, is usually due to achill. It which is frequent accompaniment of many sp He cifle fevers, especially measles an own typhoid, and of many other lung disease: people, or it may result from the spreading of on the laryngitis. Certain occupations whic behalf expose individuals to a constant dust the or otherwise irritating atmosphere (e.g. a b. masons, cotton-millers, chemical manu enters facturers, predispose towards b. Th own symptoms are pain behind the sternur entry frequent cough, shortne of breatk be slight rise of temperature; and an attac! be no usually lasts one to three weeks. Th often treatment is, in the first stage to promot entered the secretion; when it is free, stimulat the mucous membrane in order to ge effect rid of it, and then improve the genera condition with tonics, cod-liver oil, etc who in premium.