Formulary for the preparation and mode of employing several new remedies : namely, morphine, iodine, quinine ... / with an introduction, and copious notes, by the late Charles Thomas Haden ; translated from the French of the third edition of Magendie's "Formulaire."

  • Magendie, François, 1783-1855.
Date:
1824
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Credit: Formulary for the preparation and mode of employing several new remedies : namely, morphine, iodine, quinine ... / with an introduction, and copious notes, by the late Charles Thomas Haden ; translated from the French of the third edition of Magendie's "Formulaire.". Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    nevertheless, been known to dissipate old, hard, and voluminous goitres : but, as the treatment in these cases is necessarily more protracted, it is found that the long-continued use of iodine injures the stomach. To avoid this inconve¬ nience, iodine has also been applied outwardly by means of friction. Iodine has been employed in the treatment of scrofula with an equal appearance of suc¬ cess. This point, however, is not so well ascertained as in the case of goitre ; because much fewer observations have yet been made on the subject. [In. a Mémoire read by M. Zinck to the Société Cantonnale of Lausanne, two cases of white-swelling are related, which were cured by the administration of iodine. The follow¬ ing history of the same kind has also been communicated to Dr. Gairdner, in a letter from Professor Maunoir of Geneva:—uOn the 18th of March, 1821, I was consulted respecting a boy, eight years of age, who had laboured for nearly a yearyunder a white-swelling of the right knee ; for which blisters, leeches, discutient applications, internal remedies, &c., had been unsuccessfully employed. There was a consi¬ derable augmentation in the size of the knee, which augmentation the attendant physician considered to be seated in the bones rather than in the soft parts ; and at the same time the size