topical applications of iodine are fre- 

 quently most salutary in effect. And 

 this effect is enhanced to the degree, as 

 will be pointed out later, to which the 

 practitioner becomes adept in the selec- 

 tion of the proper form or preparation 

 of iodine for the particular case in 

 hand. 



3. Regional Iodine Applications 

 FOR THE Cure of Chronic Patho- 

 logical Conditions. 



It is in the correction of chronic 

 pathological conditions, that iodine 

 therapy finds its greatest field in the 

 practice of veterinary medicine and 

 surgery. It is in chronic pathological 

 conditions, that iodine, in various 

 forms, and with various modes of appli- 

 cation, so forcibly demonstrates its 

 therapeutic work, for it is here that io- 

 dine is often the only agent used in the 

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