Dr. Pereira's Elements of materia medica and therapeutics : abridged and adapted for the use of medical and pharmaceutical practitioners and students and comprising all the medicines of the British Pharmacopœia, with such others as are frequently ordered in prescriptions or required by the physician / edited by Robert Bentley and Theophilus Redwood ; with an appendix.

  • Jonathan Pereira
Date:
1874
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Credit: Dr. Pereira's Elements of materia medica and therapeutics : abridged and adapted for the use of medical and pharmaceutical practitioners and students and comprising all the medicines of the British Pharmacopœia, with such others as are frequently ordered in prescriptions or required by the physician / edited by Robert Bentley and Theophilus Redwood ; with an appendix. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    been most successfully employed by Dr. Tlietford and by Dr. Ash well. Besides the internal use of iodine, this substance was employed in the form of ointment (composed of iodine gr. 15, iodide of potassium oz. ^, spermaceti oint. oz. of which a portion (about the size of a nut- meg) was introduced into the vagina, and rubbed into the affected cervix for ten or twelve minutes every night. It may be applied by the finger, or by a camel's-hair pencil, or sponge mounted on a slender piece of cane. The average time in which resolution of the indura- tion is accomplished varies, according to Dr. Ashwell, from eight to sixteen weeks. ' In hard tumors of the walls or cavity of the uterus, resolution, or disappearance, is scarcely to be expected;' but ' hard , tumors of the cervix, and indurated puckerings of the edges of the os (conditions which most frequently terminate in ulceration), may be melted down and cured by the iodine.' In ovarian tumors, iodine has been found serviceable. In the chronic mammary tumor, described by Sir A. Cooper, I have seen it give great relief, alle- viating pain, and keeping the disease in check. In indurated en- largements of the parotid, prostate, and lymphatic glands, several successful cases of its use have been published. Z. As an emmenagogue, iodine has been recommended by Coindet, Majendie, and others. e. Chronic diseases of the Nervous System, such as paralysis and chorea, have been successfully treated by iodine, by Dr. Manson. £. In some forms of the venereal disease, iodine has been found a most serviceable remedy. De Salle cured chronic venereal affections of the testicles with it. 7], In checking or controlling the ulcerative process, iodine is, according to Mr. Key, one of the most powerful remedies we possess. ' The most active phagedenic ulcers, that threaten the destruction of parts, are often found to yield in a surprising manner to the influence of this medicine, and to put on a healthy granulating appearance.' 0. As an injection for the cure of hydrocele, Yelpeau has employed a mixture of the tincture of iodine with water, in the proportion of from one to two drachms of the tincture to an ounce of water : of this mixture from one to four ounces are to be injected and imme- diately withdrawn. 1. Inhalation of iodine vapour has been used in phthisis. I have repeatedly tried it in this complaint, but never with the least benefit. k. As a topical remedy iodine is exceedingly valuable in several classes of diseases. The part affected is painted with the tincture or liniment, by means of a camel's-hair pencil. In some few cases only, where the skin is very delicate, it will be necessary to dilute the tincture. When it is required to remove the stain which its use gives rise to, a poultice or gruel should be applied. In lupus