Essays on the effects of iodine in scrofulous diseases : including an inquiry into the mode of preparing ioduretted baths / Translated from the French by W.B. O'Shaughnessy.

  • Lugol, Jean Guilaume Auguste, 1786-1851.
Date:
1831
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Credit: Essays on the effects of iodine in scrofulous diseases : including an inquiry into the mode of preparing ioduretted baths / Translated from the French by W.B. O'Shaughnessy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    cases in which their due employment would have been effica- cious 3 or was even the sole, but certain method of cure. SEQUEL OF THE PRECEDING CHAPTER, AS AN ANSWER TO SOME OBJECTIONS PROPOSED AGAINST IODINE. I have described, as clearly as I could, the effects of iodine on the animal economy. Resting on my own observations alone, I cannot relate a single accident produced by this sub- stance ; but I should not, therefore, pass by the assertions hazarded about its pretended noxious action, especially since prejudices have thus been created in the minds of several practitioners. I should, moreover, keep silence the less about these assertions, as their refutation will afford me an addi- tional opportunity of developing the salutary effects of iodine in scrofulous diseases. 1.—Iodine does not cause Emaciation. It has been pretended that this medicine induced emacia- tion and diminished the fulnessof the female person. This property, with which it has been most gratuitously invested, has been considered a reason for withholding its prescription and rejecting its benefits. I can confidently assure the practitioners who may have listened to such prejudices, that I have never seen a case in which iodine injured the health in any manner whatever. Far from being ever hurtful, it is a powerful stimulant which revives the organic functions, fortifies the general constitu- tion, and encourages the growth and increase of size. I have drawn up a statistical account of the scrofulous females
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