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.

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1825
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    cele is, the more readily will it admit of cure, and the larger and harder, the greater will be the difficulty in dissipating it. We often find one side of the gland very much enlarged, and the opposite side scarcely larger than natural. Very often the gland is developed in irregularly shaped lobes; and occasionally only a small portion of the gland on one side is enlarged. In almost every case when the Thyroid gland is enlarged in a considerable degree, more or less hoarseness, difficulty of breathing, and wheezing take place, when the patient walks fast, ascends a stair, or runs. But I have found the greatest degree of dyspnoea and wheezing to take place in those cases, in which the middle portion of the gland is developed in a globular form, and by pressing on the trachea, occasions much distress in breathing. > I have met with only three cases of bony tumour in the enlarged Thyroid gland. The first was in a female subject about 25 years of age (obtained, I believe, from London, which was dissected by Professor Alison and myself, at Edinburgh, in the Winter of 1810.) The second occurred in a female, about 30 years of age, an out-patient of the Nottingham General Hos- pital, who was under my care for the cure of Bronchocele, about 10 years ago. In both these instances, the bony tumour was of a lenticular