Essays on the effects of iodine in scrofulous diseases : including an inquiry into the mode of preparing ioduretted baths / [J.G.A. Lugol].

  • Lugol, J. G. A.
Date:
1831
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    attention of practical men. To the effects of the falsification of iodine and its compounds, M.Lugol has not alluded, perhaps because the crime may happily be a stranger to the apothecaries of Paris. In this country, however, we must be on our guard against its effects, for negligence in this particular will effectually nullify all the patience or precision we can bring to the treatment of this disease. I also find it necessary to remark, that when I first determined on the publication of this trans- lation, I then entertained the idea of either avoid- ing professional terms in its pages, or else of ap- pending an explanatory glossary to the same effect. I was inclined to this course by the two- fold persuasion, that the true end of medicine is the benefit of the public, and that the more we familiarise the public with the mode of practice of truly scientific men, the more quickly will empiricism be deprived of the patronage it now so extensively possesses. Partly, however, in- fluenced by the advice of a valued friend, and partly apprehensive lest my motives for so un- usual a proceeding might be mistaken or calum- niated, 1 have for the present adhered to the ordi- nary nomenclature of medicine.