Essays on the effects of iodine in scrofulous diseases : including an inquiry into the mode of preparing ioduretted baths / translated from the French of M. Lugol, by W.B. O'Shaughnessy ; with an appendix by the translator, containing a summary of cases treated with iodine ...

  • O'Shaughnessy W. B. (William Brooke), 1809-1889.
Date:
1831
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    unsightly, and often hereditary diseases, which strike despair into whole families, from the absolute rarity of their cure, and from the irremediable light in which they are regarded by the majority of physicians, and by the hospital regulations. Hence, also, the afflicted patients submit themselves to the illusive practices suggested by superstition; for, though me- dicine has successively tried all the remedies with which she is acquainted (the number, and even the absurd variety, of which attest too strongly the want of a certain method of cure), it must still be confessed, that up to the present time an efficacious mode of treatment remained to be made known. Sometimes this disease is external and visible, and shows itself under the skin by swellings, which are slowly deve- loped, become softened, burst, and remain ulcerated for a lengthened period, and thus produce callous and incurable scars 5 it takes its place in the substance of the integu- ments, which it renders deformed and disgusting ; attacks the ears, the eyelids, the nostrils, and the lips, which become hor- ribly tumid, or are corroded to such an extent as utterly to disfigure human nature. Sometimes, more deeply hidden, the scrofulous habit at- tacks the bones and their articulations, obstructs the canals which transport the lymph and chyle, or produces in the lungs, and most important organs, tubercles which ultimately soften, and degenerate into purulent centres, thus giving rise to serious morbid alterations in the living economy, which eventually yields to the effects of the disease. Such is an abridged view of the frightful malady to which M. Lugol, with zeal, perseverance, and success, has opposed a remedy, not absolutely new, but which had never previously been administered with so much method and precaution, to such a number of individuals at once, or with such evident and decided success. M. Lugol is one of the distinguished physicians attached to