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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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dum etiarn minutis ossibus piii irnmixti. Ex quibus quicquid est, tunica continetur. Potest autem adurentibus medicamentis curari: quibus summa cutis cum subjecta tunica exeditur. Quo facto, sive humor est, profluit; sive quid densius digitis educitur: turn ulcus sub linamentis sanes- cit. Sed scalpelli curatio brevier est. Medio tumore una linea inciditur usque ad tunicam: deinde vitiosus sinus ab integro corpore digito separator, totusque cum velamento suo eximitur: tom aceto cui vel salem vel nitrum aliquis adjecit, eluitur, oraeque una sutura junguntur; ceteraque eadem, quae in aliis suturis, superin- jiciuntur: leniter deinde, ne fauces orgeat deli- gator. Siquando autem tunica eximi non potuerit, intus inspergenda adurentia, linamentisque id curandum est, et ceteris pus moventibus.” # Dr. Baillie, in his valuable work already quoted, informs us, that the following morbid appearances are found on dissecting bronchoce- lous tumours:— “ When a section is made of the Thyroid gland, affected with this disease, it is found to consist of a number of cells, which contain a transpa- rent viscid fluid. These cells vary in their size, in different parts of the same gland, and in dif- * Celsus Book vii. Cap. xiii.