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.
I have no personal experience of its use in these diseases, but benefit has been reported from it. In early stages it is said to improve digestion, in later stages to relieve dyspnoea, and in struma to cause absorption of glandular swellings (Ranking, 1868).
 
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