A practical treatise on the medical properties of the Aix-La-Chapelle hot sulphureous waters and the mode of their employment / by L. Wetzlar.

  • Wetzlar, L. (Lazarus), 1810-1880.
Date:
1862
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    In a case of syphilitic waxy degeneration of the liver, treated by me some years previously to the two cases mentioned, the mineral water combined with iodide of potassium, had but very little effect, which was perhaps owing to the irregular mode of life which the patient led I during his course. For a fourth case, treated by me in j 1860, see case 39, fol. p. I I could record a greater number of similar cases cured ; by the same treatment, but it will be sufficient to state, 1 that I have obtained through it, great success in syphilitic I affections of the sternum, of the ribs, of the armbones, of f the tibia and femur, of the scull, in several cases of i chronic syphilitic iritis, in the two cases of waxy degener- j ation of the liver, just recorded, and in skin diseases i| of more or less extent and under various forms. Most of j the patients whom I was fortunate enough to cure by this ii treatment, had taken iodide of potassium in larger doses, 1 than prescribed by me, previously to their coming to Aix- .1 la-Chapelle. Though I cannot speak highly enough of ‘ithe results of this treatment, we should be wrong in always i expecting to meet with such success. Just in the same } manner as in cases, in which no mercury has been previ- I ously used, the iodide of potassium, given without the Aix- la-Chapelle waters, scarcely ever effects a permanent cure [i of syphilis, so the combination of this medicine with the Ii mineral water is without avail in the cases of such pa- ! tients, who have not previously taken mercury. The iod- . ide of potassium with the waters generally fails also when » prescribed to such patients, upon whose constitutions mer- [ cury has not made sufficient impression. So I have ge- ( nerally found, that where mercury had brought on a diar- ; rhoea, or where salivation had come on too suddenly, the i iodide of potassium with mineral water does not effect a i complete cure. In such cases I was obliged to have re- jcourse to mercury again, and I have ascertained, by re- ipeated observation, that mercury given during a course of