Essays on the effects of iodine in scrofulous diseases : including an inquiry into the mode of preparing ioduretted baths / Translated from the French by W.B. O'Shaughnessy.

  • Lugol, Jean Guilaume Auguste, 1786-1851.
Date:
1831
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Credit: Essays on the effects of iodine in scrofulous diseases : including an inquiry into the mode of preparing ioduretted baths / Translated from the French by W.B. O'Shaughnessy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the concession does not extend to more than a small fraction of the cases), where is the compe- tent practitioner, who, after a perusal of the fol- lowing pages, will refuse to admit, that M. Lugol's treatment has in numerous examples rescued the patient from the alternative of the knife or the coffin, and in the majority has at least effected decided, though perhaps temporary, improve- ment? As for my own part in the present production, it is too insignificant to require any lengthened observation. In the version I have made I have only endeavoured to adhere to the Author's facts, freely condensing whatever appeared exuberant in his descriptions or superfluous in his details. In the arrangement of the Sections, I have made one or two transpositions, to which it is unneces- sary more particularly to allude. In the Appendix I have added a summary of a number of cases occurring in the practice of other eminent continental surgeons and physicians, and in which iodine was used either in the simple state or combined with opium, mercury, or lead. The sections in the Appendix, on the ioduret of lead, and on the adulterations of iodine and the hydriodate of potash, should especially attract the