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.
In such cases, if of a syphilitic or rheumatic origin, iodine is useful; and in rheumatic sciatica the combination of iodide of potash with vinum colchici is often very effective.
 
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