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CASES OF IODINE. 
By Mr. Thomas Sarginson, Appleby. 
ALTHOUGH I have, during several years, employed iodine and 
its different compounds, both as topical and internal remedies, 
with a certain degree of success, yet I cannot ascribe to any of 
them that unqualified panegyrism which some practitioners seem 
to bestow upon them. I have endeavoured to prove what power 
the hydrarg. biniodid., hydrarg. iodid., potass, iodid., cupri dinio- 
did., ferri iodid., iodinide simply and combined with other agents, 
possessed over splents, spavins, capped hocks, and indurated 
swellings generally, and chronic pleuro-pneumonia, chronic liver 
disease, phthisis pulmonalis, &c. Although signal success has not 
always been the result of their employment, I have reasons to con- 
clude that, especially when they were perseveringly used for a 
considerable length of time, they have each of them, in their 
respective places, occasionally exerted a salutary influence over 
most of these diseases. When, however, the reduction of a bony 
or indurated deposition was chiefly required, I have seen little or 
nothing effected by the compounds of iodine, beyond what a sti- 
mulating liniment or blister would have accomplished. 
I now seldom employ them but in phthisical affections, and 
diseased glands and glandular structures; and the preparations 
that I generally prefer are the potass, iodid. and the cupri diniodid. 
In consumptive affections I have seen repeated failures ; but, pos- 
sibly, there might be some fault in the quality of the compound, 
or the dose of it might not be so nicely apportioned to the case as 
circumstances required ; or the progress of the disease might be so 
insidious as to elude the observation of the owner until the sub- 
stance of the lungs had become little less than a mass of purulent 
matter. I think, however, it may be fairly inferred from the 
subjoined cases, that iodine and its compounds are not destitute of 
remedial efficacy in chronic pulmonic diseases. 
CASE I. — This subject was a middle-aged short-horned cow, 
that had an attack of pleuro-pneumonia, and had had the inflam- 
matory symptoms subdued by bleeding and laxative and sedative 
medicines. On the animal partially recovering her appetite, with 
the recurrence of other symptoms indicative of returning health, 
the owner, like many others, rather hastily congratulated himself 
in being able to dispense with one whose services required a con- 
siderable remuneration. 
In about a week after this my services were again requested. 
