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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    smarted a good deal on the lips and their commissures, where previously no pain was excited by its application. At the expiration of three months she could use her pocket- handkerchief with the utmost facility, the nasal secretion had returned to its natural condition, and she moved her lips so easily that she was able to whistle. I, however, persevered in the ioduretted preparations for another month, because, from time to time, little excoriations appeared on the left commissure of the lips, accompanied by a feeling of local heat and itching, which I regarded as traces of the disease which might acquire more intensity and constitute a real relapse. The duration of the treatment w^s altogether ninety-eight days. She remained in the house three months longer in charge of a sick nun, and during that time her constitution, which had already gained much from the treatment, made still further improvement. Nevertheless I resumed the treat- ment on the 5th April 1828, and continued it to the end of the month. This time the local action of the ointment only produced slight and transitory itchings. Similar inactivity, however, did not attend the internal use of even the weakest iodine-water, which this time, as at the first, gave rise to colics, three or four alvine evacuations daily, and a most abundant urinary secretion. On the 17th May she left the Hopital St. Louis in perfect health. I advised her to quit the lace or sewing business, and to return to Auvergne and occupy herself with agricul- tural pursuits. Cask X.—Francois Poire, aged 19, was admitted to treatment on the 24th March 1S2S, offering the following symptoms:— The skin was red, indurated, hypertrophied, pustular, and bathed in pus, in a space of great extent from the chin inclu-