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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    re-appeared in the face, commencing at the right jaw and proceeding to the nose, which, during the entire summer, was filled with crusts. After an intermission, which lasted throughout the winter, the eruption re-appeared in spring, in the same form as before, but with increased intensity. The discharge soon diminished, leaving the nose of a violet- red colour, hard and stiff. The dry pituitary membrane no longer secreted mucus, but a clear limpid fluid, which formed incrustations on its surface. The upper lip was also red, stiff, rather swelled, and indolent. The tubercles, though of three years' standing, had disappeared on the second attack of the scrofulous affection of the nose and nostrils. On the 25th September 1830, before the treatment was commenced, the patient had been thus affected for about six months. Her colour was animated, especially at the right side, the nose enlarged by the dilatation of the nasal canal at each side. Her eyelashes were black, and hair chesnut but scanty; her belly always large, no sign of puberty; age, 16 years and six weeks. At the end of a month's treatment the nose, upper lip, and their circumference, were free from redness; and accord- ing to the patient's expression less contracted. The pituitary secretion had returned to its primitive state, the nose moist, and no longer covered with crusts; the nasal dis- charge was not watery as before, but of the normal con- sistence. During the third fortnight the interior of the nose conti- nued better, and its evacuation more free; the upper lip and ake nasi were still slightly hard; the left commissure rather red, was chapped in the morning; the patient felt herself warmer than usual when she moved about, and her lips were then especially painful. We should not omit to mention, that after this relapse of some of her symptoms the ointment