Poisoning or toxic effects caused by the accumulation of bromine or bromide compounds in the body.
From bromine + -ism (suffix indicating a condition or disease). This medical term emerged in the late 1800s when bromide medications were common.
Brominism was a real medical problem in the Victorian era when bromides were wildly overused as sedatives—patients could literally get poisoned by their own medicine, creating a condition with its own name!
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