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.
Magendie stated that he had cured this disease by iodide of potash, and Franklin gave to a boy, aged eight years, as much as 180 to 300 drops of iodine tincture, and curiously enough the boy bore it well and was cured (Kohler).
It seems to me that the remedy can only serve in such cases if there be a syphilitic or rheumatic origin.
 
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