Observations on the remarkable effects of iodine in bronchocele and schrophula : being a translation of three memoirs published by I.R. Coindet, M.D. of Geneva.

  • Coindet, Jean François, 1774-1834.
Date:
1821
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Credit: Observations on the remarkable effects of iodine in bronchocele and schrophula : being a translation of three memoirs published by I.R. Coindet, M.D. of Geneva. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IS MEMOIR II. FURTHER RESEARCHES UPON THE EFFECTS OF IODINE, AND UPON THE PRECAUTIONS NECESSARY TO BE OBSERVED IN THE TREATMENT OF GOITRE BY THIS NEW REMEDY. At the time I communicated to the Helvetian So- ciety of natural sciences, assembled at Geneva last July, my discovery of a new remedy for the cure of bronchocele, I had assured myself, during the space of a year, of a sufficient number of facts, fully con- firming the effects of this powerful specific, and at the same time proving it to be in no-wise inju- rious. # Since that period I have been informed of the distressing and unpleasant symptoms peculiar to iodine, and which have manifested themselves in persons, who from their rank and merit, have excited the public attention in this city. The employment of this remedy has been therefore strongly decried; such terror excited, and such strong opposition shown, that I can only compare it to the clamours raised against antimony, and inoculation for the small and cow-pox. I ought, however, to render homage to truth, by observing that those of my brother-practitioners, as well Genevese as strangers, who have administered the iodine, do not decry it; but on the contrary, * I was well aware of the pecuniary advantage I might derive from my discovery, had I wished to have kept it a secret remedy; but, independently of such speculation being beneath the dignity or respect that a physician owes to the honourable profession he exercises, I experienced such delight in thinking, that, as a Swiss practitioner, I had discovered a remedy adapted to a complaint of such frequent occurrence, and almost endemical in my native country, that I hastened to render public the fruit of my re- searches.