An experimental essay on the relative physiological and medicinal properties of iodine and its compounds / [Charles Cogswell].
- Cogswell, Charles, 1813-1892.
- Date:
- 1837
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An experimental essay on the relative physiological and medicinal properties of iodine and its compounds / [Charles Cogswell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![joint was removed at the end of a month, by topical friction with the tincture, as the author says nothing about it, and only mentions a sensation of smarting in some recent leech bites.* Inunction with iodine has been known to occa- sion a popular eruption,+ and authors have likewise observed vesication to proceed from repeated appli- cations of the tincture. } The vapour of iodine having been inhaled by M. Chevalier, gave rise to violent colic pains ; M. Ras- pail, however, under the same circumstances, ex- perienced nothing but a disagreeable impression on the posterior fauces.{ Some patients of M. Lugol, who breathed it incidentally while in the act of using the warm bath, became affected with headach and intoxication ; epistaxis likewise supervening in one instance.|| Iodine vapour is, in the opinion of Dr Elliotson, far more irritating than chlorine to the pulmonary organs,—a quality which, in its medici- nal capacity, requires it to be conjoined with nar- cotics. 4] The researches of Orfila give us to understand, that the presence of iodine in the cellular tissue, does * Med. and Surg. Journ. xxi. 230.. +t Jour. Compl. xviii. 231. t Medical Gazette. 1830. Buchanan, Joco cit. p. 84. § Jour. Gen. de Med. c. iii. || Ut supra, pp. 70, et seq. {1 Lancet.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3328474x_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
