[Report 1929] / Medical Officer of Health, Cumberland County Council.
- Cumberland County Council
- Date:
- 1929
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1929] / Medical Officer of Health, Cumberland County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![now. for over twelve mouths, l)een up and about daily, going for walks and reporting at Carlisle for examination from time to time without auy ill-effects. It was foiind that after a lengthy ])eriod the iujections of iodeol pro- duced a local induration, and so the treatment was reversed, and injections of i c.c. collosal calcium intra- muscularly were given once a week, with d minims of tincture of iodine in a dessertspoonful of cod liver oil cream three times a day by the moutli. The im])rovement undei’ this modification of the treatment has definitely been the most marked of any of the combinations of treatment. Encouraged by the results in this case, one or two other very advanced cases were treated for short periods on the same lines. The results varied; all showed improvement in one direction oi' another, siich as settling of high temperatures, gain in weight, cessation of gastric symptoms, and so on. These results, however were of a temporary nature, as was more or less to be expected, all of the cases being junctically classifiable as “ hopeless under any form of treatment. Therefore, early in 1929 I determined, with the approval of the County Medical Officer, to apply the treatment to such edrly cases as came to our notice and fulfilled the conditions. The conditions laid down as necessary were: — 1 The ])atient must be an early case with, for example, recognisable sigus of tuberculosis at one apex. 2. The patient must have tubercle bacilli in the sputum. d The patient must l)c of a temperament likely to co-o])erate in giving the treatment a fair trial over such a period as might be necessary. It proved to be extraordinary difficult to find cases complying with these simple conditions. Certain cases suggested pioved on careful examination to be far too advanced, and in fact, although all the Tuberculosis Officers in the Conn tv were asked to co-operate in finding- suitable early cases during 1929, only three recommenda- tions were made, of whom one proved to be unsuitable. I found two suitable cases in my own area, and during the year was, therefore, able to investigate the effect of](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29132903_0043.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
