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hitherto cured with great difficulty. Several instances are recorded, in which 
hard, old, and very large goitres, have yielded to this remedy: nevertheless, 
success is most commonly to be expected in recent cases, and in individuals 
who have not arrived at maturity. Iodine has been also employed for the 
cure of scrofula, and with seemingly equally beneficial results. M.Coindet 
recommends it as a powerful emmenagogue ; it has also been recommended 
in laryngeal phthisis,leucorrheea,* syphilitic enlargements, tabesmesenterica, 
chronic dysentery,+ scrophulous opthalmia, heemoptoe supervening to sup- 
pressed menstruation, and to hasten the cicatrization of venereal ulcers,} &c. 
The late Mr. Haden reports a case of phthisis supposed to have been cured 
by iodine. 
Preparations, and Mode of prescribing Iodine :— 
TINCTURE OF IODINE. 
Take of, Alcohol at 35°. . . lounce (7 dr. 52. 5 gr. troy) 
Iodine . . 46 grains (gr. 39. 36 troy) Mix.| 
Dose ten drops, three times a day, in a wine-glass full of sugared water, and 
gradually increased to twenty drops. Four cases of Bronchocele are said by 
Mr. Rickwood to have been cured or relieved by the tincture of iodine ad- 
ministered as above,§ and Mr. Calloway of the Borough has employed it with 
great success, in several cases of scrophulous enlargement of the glands, not 
only of the surface, but of the mesentary. 
; SOLUTION OF HYDRIODATE OF POTASS. 
Take of Hydriodate of Potass . 36 grains (gr. 29. 52 troy) 
Seis Distilled water . . -  lounce (7 dr. 52. 5gr.troy) Mix. 
This solution may be given in the same manner as the tincture, and for 
the same disorders. Dr, Gairdner, however, prefers this preparation to the 
tincture. | He usually begins with ten drops, and gradually augments the 
dose to twenty, and rarely to.twenty-five. _ By the use of this solution a soft 
bronchocele will be discussed in a month or six weeks; but those which are 
hard and of long standing, require a longer period. Weare told by Dr. 
Wagner, that he has employed with considerable success, an ointment com- 
posed of 18 grains of the hydriodate of potass to six drachms of lard, in tu- 
* M. Gimele. + Professor Brera. t Dr. Costor of Paris. 
|| Twenty drops contain about one grain of iodine. 
§ London Medical and Physical Journal, August, 1823. 
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