Some observations on the preparation and medicinal employment of the ioduret and hydriodate of iron / by Anthony Todd Thomson.

  • Anthony Todd Thomson
Date:
1834
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    under some circumstances, by hysterical sym- ptoms. Besides, when long continued, the use of all these preparations of Iodine is more or less followed by great weakness and emaciation. When such symptoms occur, if they be not suffi- ciently important to require that the use of the remedy be discontinued, tonics are the means by which they are most effectually relieved: indeed the combination of Iodine with a tonic, when ad- missible, is found to be the most effectual pro- phylactic of these symptoms, in cases in which the susceptibility of the nervous system renders it likely that the Iodine might display its dele- terious influence on the habit. As the Hydrio- date of Iron possesses both the stimulant pro- perties of the Iodine, and the tonic powers of the Protoxide of Iron, the probability that it might produce all the beneficial, without the deleterious, effects of Iodine, was presumed; and I was, therefore, induced to order it in scrophulous affections. The results that have followed its administration have been such, that I have no hesitation in regarding it a most valu- able addition to the means which we already pos- sess of treating the chronic forms of these dis- eases. In prescribing the Hydriodate of Iron, in any strumous affections, it is necessary to direct our attention to the ordinary con- dition of the habit of the patient, so as to ascertain whether the disease have been en-