Essays on the effects of iodine in scrofulous diseases : including an inquiry into the mode of preparing ioduretted baths / Translated from the French by W.B. O'Shaughnessy.

  • Lugol, Jean Guilaume Auguste, 1786-1851.
Date:
1831
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Credit: Essays on the effects of iodine in scrofulous diseases : including an inquiry into the mode of preparing ioduretted baths / Translated from the French by W.B. O'Shaughnessy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bearing numerous marks of scro fula, which had existed since she was six years old. There were ulcerated tubercles on the left cheek, and the same side of the neck ; on the right cheek and side of the neck, beneath the chin ; and at the top of the sternum. The greatest, situated below the chin, was ulcerated a year. She stated that this tubercle, and another at the left side of the neck, were those which had suppurated most copiously, and from the earliest period. The others were, in fact, cicatrised more or less; and the scars were red, ga- thered, projecting, painful, dirty, covered with crusts, and concealing suppuration. Most of them were fistulous ; and, beneath the cicatrices, tubercles as large as hazel-nuts were perceptible to the touch. Besides these actual symptoms, this young woman bore three scrofulous marks, on the inner side of the left-hand, on the anterior surface of the arm, and on the inferior fourth of its internal edge. There was no appearance of the bones having been at any time diseased. Some crusts occurred in the left nostril: these were, how- ever, never considered of any importance. The right shoul- der projected rather more strongly than the left. This patient, whose treatment was commenced on the 24th September, 1827, was nearly cured on the 19th of the fol- lowing November. According as the scars became level with the skin, the subjacent indurations were dissipated ; no more crusts remained, except on the two principal tubercles; which, besides, suppurated so little as scarcely to stain her linen. These sores were, however, still fistulous, and much pained by the iodine ointment 5 a sensation no longer expe- rienced in the other tubercles of the neck and face, where intense pain was previously caused by the application. The general state was also improving ; and the treatment was continued till the 31st of December.