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 ioduretted ointment occasioned sharp pain, and night and morning she complained of burning heat for two hours ; I was consequently obliged to diminish its strength, and sometimes to omit it one or two days. The ioduretted water caused a copious flow of urine, and increased the appetite to a considerable degree. In three months and a half the ulceration was cicatrised, nnd the tumour diminished one half: I had ascertained by the finger, a short time before, that the swelling was com- posed of two tubercles, the superior of which was alone en- gaged in the ulceration. The local action of the ointment No. 2 continued very powerful, especially on bath days, it was therefore several times necessary to use the ointment No. 1. The ioduretted mineral water produced pains of the stomach, but these never occurred after she was ordered to take fasting a dose of the quinquina wine. During a suspension of eight days the improvement was permanent, and even progressive; but after a second inter- mission the treatment was not so successful; the cure did not proceed during the winter, I therefore again suspended it from the 1st to the 15th of April, and at the third time the iodine treatment recovered all its power, and the patient was discharged on the 24th May, 1S2S, having no more traces of her disease than an induration the size of an almond, on the place previously occupied by the scrofulous tumour. The cicatrix was linear and devoid of colour. The patient returned to see us several times last summer, and we found that the mark continued isolated, that its eir- cumference was free, and that the general state of health was as well as could be desired. Cask III.—Adei.e Gandel, manluamaker, set. 15, whose mother died at 35 years of age of pulmonary tubercles, en- tered the Hdpital St. Louis the 14th of September, 1S27,