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JAMA. 1884;III(10):265-267.

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MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS.

IODIDE OF POTASSIUM IN PNEUMONIA.

—Dr. Luigi Gualdi, of Rome (Lancet) considers (with Schwarz) pneumonia not as a local disease with general symptoms, but as a general disease with local effects. He gives the iodide of potassium in forty-centigramme doses every two hours, at the same time applying the ice-bag over the seat of pulmonary inflammation. In thirty-nine cases in which he practiced this treatment he had excellent results. In all, without distinction, he observed that the sputum, from being viscid and tenacious, became, before the second day, fluid, resembling bloody serum; that with the cessation of the fever the exhaustion also ceased, although the physical state of the lung was not improved—nay, in some cases aggravated; and, finally, that in all the convalescents the appetite was so sharpened that the ordinary diet had to be considerably increased. The mortality was 6 per cent., while of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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