This section is from the book "Materia Medica And Therapeutics Inorganic Substances", by Charles D. F. Phillips. Also available from Amazon: Materia medica and therapeutics.
When these conditions depend on func- tional causes, congestion, torpor, debility, etc., iodine and the iodides are useful. I have often proved them so in the former condition, and sometimes in sterility they exert a stimulating effect on the uterus, possibly because of their elimination by the mucous membrane.
 
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