Formulary for the preparation and mode of employing several new remedies : namely, morphine, iodine, quinine ... / with an introduction, and copious notes, by the late Charles Thomas Haden ; translated from the French of the third edition of Magendie's "Formulaire."

  • François Magendie
Date:
1824
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Credit: Formulary for the preparation and mode of employing several new remedies : namely, morphine, iodine, quinine ... / with an introduction, and copious notes, by the late Charles Thomas Haden ; translated from the French of the third edition of Magendie's "Formulaire.". Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IODIN K. siderable length of time. In the cholera in¬ duced by iodine, Dr. Gairdner has found sedatives, such as opium, hyoscyamus, &cv more beneficial than any othei class of medi¬ cines ; purgatives are said invariably to do harm. It is somewhat curious tha^ Deemro, Coindet, Erlinger, Formey, Hufeland, and others, have employed this remedy in a variety of cases, but have never witnessed its dele¬ terious properties : or, at all events, have never described them.] CASES IN WrHICH THE PREPARATIONS OF IODINE MAY BE EMPLOYED. M. Coindet, a physician of Geneva, first used iodine in medicine. He employed it in the treatment of goitre with very marked effects. These trials were repeated by several physicians, both in France and Switzerland; and their observations would seem to prove that we now possess, in iodine, an efficacious remedy for the removal of a disease which has been hitherto cured with difficulty. Although success may be especially expected to follow the use of iodine when the goitre is recent, and has occurred in individuals who have not yet arrived at maturity, the remedy lias,