A probationary essay on bronchocele : submitted, by authority of the President and his Council, to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, when candidate for admission into their body, in conformity to their regulations respecting the admission of ordinary Fellows / by Archibald Inglis.

  • Inglis, Archibald, 1801-1889.
Date:
1825
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    scribed, its dose must be diminished, or its use entirely given up. With these precautions, iodine promises to be one of the most valuable medicines that have been lately added to our Materia Medica, not only in the cure of Bron- chocele, but of several other diseases.* 3. When medical means have been found of no avail in curing Bronchocele, the extirpation of the tumour has been attempted. The large size of the blood-vessels with which the thy- roid gland is supplied, and which must be still farther increased in its diseased state, together with the importance of the parts situated near it, render this an extremely difficult and ha- zardous operation ; accordingly we find that of those cases which have been recorded, several * Although it may be proper to put the powers of this medicine to the test of experiment in diseases bearing any analogy to that of which we are now treating, yet we can scarcely expect to derive benefit from it in all the variety of disorders in which its success has been of late reported on the continent. The benefit derived from its use in scroful- ous tumours of the lymphatic glands, I have had several opportunities of witnessing.