Thirteenth Lecture

Incidentally, I would be pleased if iodine were now used primarily against consumption. It has really been too long since Herz, in Hufeland's Journal, assigned Phellandrium aquaticum a place in the prescription tables at the sickbed as a symptom of consumption, which can sometimes be recognized by it, even if the other symptoms of the disease are absent (in which case particularly successful cures occur with it); it may now cede its place to iodine, and iodine will gladly give up another disease in return. Certainly, all that is needed is this suggestion to persuade a physician to arrange the matter.