Medical researches on the effects of iodine, in bronchocele, paralysis, chorea, scrophula, fistula lachrymalis, deafness, dysphagia, white swelling, and distortions of the spine / by Alexander Manson.

Date:
1825
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    MEDICAL RESEARCHES ON THE Effects of Iodine in Bronchocele. The enlargement of the Thyroid gland* called by medical men Bronchocele* and com- monly known in this country by the name of Derbyshire Neck* and in France* by that of Goitre, is an endemial disease, or one that takes place only in certain districts. It is a complaint that occurs very frequently in Nottingham* and the surrounding country. The disease is to be met with* I believe* through- out Derbyshire* but in some places more com- monly than in others; I was lately told* that there are not fewer than a hundred women in the village of Cromford* near Matlock* who labour under Bronchocele* of a large size. As to the cause of this disease* there are various opinions: the vulgar one here ascribes the disease to the hardness of the water* and* as far as I have had an opportunity of enquiring* the same opinion obtains in Derbyshire. This popular notion certainly receives con- firmation from the circumstance* that Bron- chocele is more frequently to be met with* and B