626 A NEW FORMULA FOR THE EXHIBITION OF IODINE. 
The third case happened on the 4th July last. A sow of Mr. 
John Hayes, of Pickering, had littered thirteen pigs, and was lain 
on her side in a torpid state, taking no notice of her young ones, 
and refusing all food. She was a valuable sow, of a large breed, 
about two years old. 
Treatment . — Gave her sulph. mag. §iv, ol. ricini fij, tinct. aloe, 
com. Ji. It will be proper here to remark, that a butcher in this 
town professes to cure pigs of every disorder by taking the 
“ haws” out of their eyes. When I called the next day to see 
the sow, Mr. Hayes told me the butcher had been there, and 
taken the “ haws” out of her eyes, and she was better. 
The next day I was sent for by Mr. William Fletcher to see a 
pig of his that was very ill. The butcher, however, had been 
there a few days before me, and had performed his operation on 
two pigs, one of which was dead, and the other not likely to get 
better. On examination, I found it labouring under an attack of 
bronchitis, with symptoms also of pneumonia. 
Medicine. — Digitalis, veratrum, of each 9i, nit. pot. §ss, ol. ricini 
Ji, M. The dose repeated four hours afterwards, leaving out the 
nit. pot., and adding opii 9i. Better, next day. In a few days 
quite well. 
A NEW FORMULA FOR THE EXHIBITION OF 
IODINE. 
By JOHN Relph, Sebergham. 
From the well-known fact that iodide of potassium increases 
the solubility of iodine, I inferred that potash might have the same 
power ; and, after many trials, have adopted the subjoined formula, 
the preparation of which is much less annoying to the operator 
than that of the spirituous tincture. It keeps quite as well, and is 
an efficient medicine. With me it has almost superseded the 
iodide of potassium. 
R Iodine J j 
Potassae hydrat. 31J 
Aquae Jviij. 
Dissolve the potash in §vi of water, add a portion of this to the 
iodine, and triturate ; then decant, and repeat the process until all 
is dissolved. Rinse the mortar out with the residue of the water, 
and add to the solution. 
I apprehend that this mixture of iodine and potash does not 
pass off by the kidneys with the same freedom that characterises 
the combination of iodine and potassium. 
