An experimental essay on the relative physiological and medicinal properties of iodine and its compounds : being the Harveian prize dissertation for 1837 / by Charles Cogswell.

  • Cogswell Charles, 1813-1892.
Date:
1837
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Credit: An experimental essay on the relative physiological and medicinal properties of iodine and its compounds : being the Harveian prize dissertation for 1837 / by Charles Cogswell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pieces of meat, produced no immediate effect. Great depression gradually, however, supervened, and con- tinued unabated for three days, the alvine evacua- tions being frequent, loose, and black. On the fourth day these symptoms began to wear away ; and, by the lapse of the seventh, the animal appa- rently enjoyed its usual health. Experiment 18.—Forty grains of iodide of lead having been given to a rabbit, the animal died in the space of twelve days. For the first five days the bowels were torpid. The stool then evacuated contained both lead and iodine. There were no other signs worthy of note but those of slowly in- creasing weakness, and a copious soft evacuation im- mediately previous to death. The stomach and intestines appeared remarkably contracted and scantily filled ; the lining membrane of the stomach red, especially opposite the cardiac orifice, and marked with a few small and deeply- seated ecchymosed spots. Experiment 19.—A bull-dog of the common stature, but no great activity, took five grains of the iodide of lead morning and evening for five days, without any perceptible derangement as to health. On the three following days he received two