11. 



General Considerations of Local 

 Iodine Therapy. 



While it is a fact that iodine is one 

 of the most popular of the many medic- 

 inal agents used by the practitioner of 

 veterinary medicine and surgery, it al- 

 so is a fact that iodine — more so than 

 any other agent — is frequently used in 

 pathological conditions and under cir- 

 cumstances that lack every scientific 

 indication for its application. To a 

 certain extent this is true of almost any 

 medicinal agent in common use, even 

 those whose field of applicability is less 

 broad than that of iodine; but it is es- 

 pecially noteworthy in the use of iodine. 



Iodine does not differ from any other 

 therapeutic agent with regard to indi- 

 vidual indications for its application; 

 it has these as prominently marked as 

 have the alkaloids, physiologically. 

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