patients, no one at all versed in the 

 condition as it occurs in practice would 

 give the credit of ultimate cure to the 

 iodine applications. But all will admit 

 readily that, while the internal treat- 

 ment indicated by the pathology of the 

 condition is correcting the lesion per sc, 

 the regional applications of iodine do 

 contribute materially to a smooth 

 termination of the case in that they do, 

 without question, lessen the possibility 

 of abscess formation, relieve the pain, 

 and hasten resolution. 



The conditions included under this 

 heading form, in great part, that class 

 of cases to which reference was made 

 in the beginning of this treatise, name- 

 ly, those in which iodine treatment is 

 largely used under circumstances and 

 in conditions that lack almost every 

 scientific indication for its application. 

 Yet, it is in these very conditions, and 

 under these very circumstances, that 

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