Some clinical uses of iodic acid and the iodates / by William Mackie.

  • Mackie, William
Date:
1905
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Credit: Some clinical uses of iodic acid and the iodates / by William Mackie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    than favourably, its power being rouglily estimated as three while permanganate is two for equal weights of the salts. It has also been found of service as a deodorant where permanganate quite failed, probably because the chemical action of the two substances is not identical. Iodic acid has the additional advantage of not staining the hands or the tissues, while it is, of course, a much stronger antiseptic than permanganate. Among the uses to which it has been put the following may be briefly enumerated : 1. As an irrigant in the case of a burn in an epileptic female, aged 77 years. The burn was extensive, reaching from above the knee to the ankle and round half the circumference of the limb. On admission it was found put up in a Carron-oil dressing which had not been changed for several days and was in consequence very offensive. There was also deep and extensive sloughing. Iodic acid of the strength of I in 500 was used for irrigation and the surface was afterwards dressed with lint wrung out of the solution. The foetor was discharged at once and no complaint was made of smarting. 2. As an irrigant in ozsena. 3. Also for the same purpose in a patient of fllthy habits who had infected an amputation wound of the thigh with the colon bacillus. 4. For placing in the recipient vessel in the case of a most offensive urine —without exception the vilest ever experienced—in the case of an old man who had long led a catheter life. 5. As an irrigant in empyema of the chest, also in strength 1 in 500. 6. Lint wrung out of 1 in 500 solution was used in the first instance as an application to clean and to deodorise two very offensive leg ulcers in an ataxic female, aged 75 years, and proving efficient and non-irritant was continued till perfect licaling had taken place. 7. In same strength as a mouth wash in a case of recurrent and inoperable epithelioma of the mouth and cheek. 8. As a vaginal douche in a case of inoperable cancer of the uterus and vagina. In all of these cases the solution of 1 in 500 proved efficient beyond expectation. As regards the last two cases no one knowing the foetor attending such cases would probably believe with^ out trial that the results obtained were possible. For months both were kept perfectly free from the slightest indication of foetor. 9. During a year’s experience in the local Fever Hospital iodic acid was the all but exclusive substance, in strengths up to 1 in 300, used for applications to the throat in diphtheria and scarlet fever, while it was in general use as a mouth wash in 1 in 500 and was found particulai-ly useful for the latter purpose in cases of typhoid fever.
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