Essays on the effects of iodine in scrofulous diseases : including an inquiry into the mode of preparing ioduretted baths / Translated from the French by W.B. O'Shaughnessy.

  • Lugol, Jean Guilaume Auguste, 1786-1851.
Date:
1831
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Credit: Essays on the effects of iodine in scrofulous diseases : including an inquiry into the mode of preparing ioduretted baths / Translated from the French by W.B. O'Shaughnessy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Institute, by which M. Lugol, at the sitting of July 1831, was awarded a prize of 6000 francs, as a recompense for the researches described in the following pages. M. Lugol is not, it is true, the first who has applied iodine to the treatment of scrofula; other, and equally distinguished men, in Great Britain especially, have also investigated its vir- tues in this department of therapeutics. I can- not, however, avoid the conviction, that no suffi- ciently conclusive results have yet been obtained in this country,—a circumstance obviously de- pendent on the general regulations of our hospi- tals, the majority of which, either from the actual exclusion of scrofulous diseases, or the limited period allotted to the treatment of any indivi- dual, have not afforded a sufficiently extensive field for the successful investigation of this inte- resting subject. I now submit to the profession the gratifying- results of the labours of M. Lugol; who, sur- rounded by every facility that could be desired— in charge of extensive wards exclusively destined for scrofulous cases—no limit being set to their period of treatment—has studiously and success- fully availed himself of his peculiar position.