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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    sive, to above the os hyoides, and about two inches at each side of the mesial line of the neck; at the right side this cutaneous scrofula prolonged itself to the level of the ear by almost continuous patches; at the left, the patches were more distinct from each other. While examining the diseased surface beneath the chin, in order to appreciate the degree of hardness and hypertrophy of the skin, I found a tubercle larger than a nut forming the base of an ulcer larger than two francs. This ulcer was of six months' standing, and was the consequence of a rupture of a tubercle larger than the first, which had occurred in this region a year before, and by which the movements of the chin and tongue were still much impeded. Above the left mastoid process were several cicatrices, about which tubercles could be detected; at the right side several more were equally evident: one especially, the size of a large nut, at the external extremity of the clavicle be- neath the shallow cicatrix of the tubercle, with which, 16 or 17 years since, the disease first made its appearance. In his early youth the patient had suffered no remarkable pathological event, except a feverish affection at 14, which lasted an entire year. During six months I was obliged to remain in the sta- tionary use of the weakest preparation, some attempts with that a degree stronger having produced too energetic an action. The ioduretted ointment always acted vigorously, and the local suppuration was very abundant. Besides the suppuration more particularly produced by the ulcerated tubercle of the chin, the hypertrophied, pustular skin of the neck discharged a copious quantity of an aqueous, extremely limpid fluid, about a quarter of an hour after the friction. A similar phenomenon I have witnessed in Lambert, Gloria, and some other patients. The ioduretted water always caused much ventral annoy-