Medical researches on the effects of iodine, in bronchocele, paralysis, chorea, scrophula, fistula lachrymalis, deafness, dysphagia, white swelling, and distortions of the spine / by Alexander Manson.

Date:
1825
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Credit: Medical researches on the effects of iodine, in bronchocele, paralysis, chorea, scrophula, fistula lachrymalis, deafness, dysphagia, white swelling, and distortions of the spine / by Alexander Manson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. In the present unsettled state of medical opinion respecting Iodine as a remedial agent, and in the almost total absence of detailed information respecting its effects on the human body, by the Medical Practitioners of this country, it occurred to me, as my experience has been very consider- able with this remedy (having prescribed, at least, 180 ounces of it since March, 1821), that a Report of my practice might be productive of some benefit, by shewing, that the prejudices at present entertained against its internal use, are unfounded; and that it possesses very great powers in the cure of many obstinate diseases, over which other remedies have little or no influence. It will be seen on the perusal of the work, that owing to Bronchoceie being endemic in Nottingham and its vicinity, my attention had for some time been directed to discover the active matter in burnt sponge, that proves remedial in that disease, when I learnt through the medium b