Rushton's treatise on cod-liver oil : giving its curative properties and uses in various diseases.

  • Rushton, Frederick V.
Date:
1855
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Rushton's treatise on cod-liver oil : giving its curative properties and uses in various diseases. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

    26/64
    ral state must of necessity render it highly effective when taken into the system. Iodine it is well known is obtained for commerce from the ashes of burned sea weed, and naturally enough is found in the product from a fish that inhabits the element where this marine plant grows. Iodine is one of the most effectual reme- dies in a great number of diseases we have, and especially so in the various forms of scrofula, cutaneous eruptions and rheu- matism. In consumption it is believed to possess great power in arresting the pro- gress of the disease; and has been used by inhalation to a considerable extent, and in many instances with very satisfactory results. At the present time it is being used extensively, and so indescriminately as to warrant the opinion that its utility by this mode of administration will soon fall into disrepute. As an internal remedy, it possesses great controU over the growth of morbid products, seeming to find its