Electro-galvanic symptoms, and electro-magnetic remedies, in chronic diseases of the class hypertrophy, or chronic enlargements of the organs and limbs, including all forms of scrofula, with illustrative diagrams and cases / by H.H. Sherwood.

  • Sherwood, H. H. (Henry Hall)
Date:
1837
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    There are, however, some physicians, who, having given up every other remedy recommended in the books, still adhere to iodine, as a forlorn hope, notwithstanding it has been tested many thousand times by other physicians, and discarded as useless. Among the latter I am pleased to be able to rank so distinguished a physician as Dr. Warren, of Boston. In a recent valuable work, he says : A medicine has been introduced of late years, which has acquired much reputation in this and other forms of scrofulous disease. It is not surprising that physicians should with avidity take up any remedy which may promise to relieve so common and inveterate a dis- ease as scrofula, especially one analogous in its character to those of which experience has most approved. I must say that after many years trial of the preparations of iodine, in various forms of scrofulous affec- tion, I have rarely seen any distinct advantages from it. In speaking again of the eases in which iodine has been used, he says Preparations of iodine have not been efficacious in these cases, so far as I have used them. The tincture of iodine has been given to the amount of foity-five drops three times a day. This quantity was sufficient to produce diarrhoea ; but after a long use had no effect on the tumor. The same must be said of the hydriadates of soda and potass, which I have frequently given in this and other scrofulous cases, in the dose of seven grains three or four times a day, till it irri- tated the stomach and bowels without influencing the cure, CHAPTER II. It is a matter of common observation that magnetized bodies repel and attract each other; and it has been ascertained by a long and thorough course of experiments, conducted on the most rigid priuciples of inductive philosophy, that the two magnetic forces are innate in, and pervade, every kind of matter in greater or less quantities, proportioned to its density or other ability to retain them ; and which produce motion by repelling and attracting each other. In order to ascertain the degree of force with which they repel and attract, it is found by experiments, conducted on the same principles, that they repel and attract each other with a force proportioned to their quantities in given spaces, or in the spaces they occupy. It is also ascertained in the same manner that when they repel they expand, and when they attract they contract, with a force proportioned to their quantities in given spaces ; and that there is never any motion, in animate or inanimate matter, without the action of both of these forces at the same time,