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.

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    In the month of January, after five days of sore throat, erysipelas of the face supervened, which lasted four days in the acute state; after which the figure was covered with fur- furaceous desquamation for a fortnight. The patient was twice purged. [1st March, iodine ointment resumed, a new ulcerated tu- bercle having appeared at the left side of the neck.] At the end of April a second attack of erysipelas of the face occurred, two days at the right, two days at the left side, generally less severe than the first fit. After this she was once purged. In March the treatment was resumed, on account of a tubercle which still remained to the left, and below the chin; the application of iodine now occasioned pain in the scars, which had been insensible to its action for several months,—a circumstance which induced me to persevere in its employ- ment, although the iodine ointment generally ceases to exert any local action according as the cure progresses, and the surfaces become healed and freed from contraction. Gandel showed this phenomenon remarkably ; and I avail myself of the opportunity to point it out. The treatment was continued till the end of July ; and the young woman quitted the establishment cured, and in a most satisfactory state of health, on the 1st September, 1828. § II,—IODINE IN OPHTHALMIA AND SCROFULOUS CORYZA. Case IV.—Francois Fredel, glover, «et. 19, was placed under treatment, having experienced the following symp- toms for three months : redness, swelling and stiffness of the nose j dryness of the pituitary membrane, on which were formed crusts, which impeded the respiration; ophthalmia of
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