Clinical Experience with Some Rare Nosodes

By S.K. Ghosh

http://www.emryss.com/clinical-experience-with-some-rare-nosodes.html

A DICTIONARY OF PRACTICAL

MATERIA MEDICA
By John Henry CLARKE, M.D.
Presented by Médi-T Ž

Thyroiodinum.
Iodothyrinum. Trituration.

Clinical.─Goître. Obesity. Urine, increase of.

Characteristics.─Thyroiodine is now more generally named Iodothyrine, but I retain

the former as more convenient. Hoenigschmied (Aerz. Cent. Zeit., No. 6, 1900,
quoted A. H., xxvii. 211) says of it that it is present in only small quantities in the
thyroid of the sheep. It is completely free from albuminous substances, stable, and
directly assimilated. The iodine exists in organic combination, and Thyri. contains
0.003 parts of Iodine to every gramme. The general effects of the drug are─increased
secretion of urine and corresponding loss of flesh. H œnigschmied gives two cases: ( 1)
Labourer, 42, for several years had enlargement and induration of all lobes of thyroid,
the enlargement causing compression of the structures of the neck, dyspn œa, whistling
respiration, hoarseness, short, dry cough, vertigo. Thyri., 5-grain tablets, one every
evening; at the end of a week twice daily. After using twenty-five tablets the gland
was smaller and softer; the previously hard and resistant nodules were elastic; after
two more weeks only remnants of the goître remained. (2) Man, 60, thyroid enlarged
in all its lobes with a glandular cystic swelling in the right one; dyspn œa, loud
whistling breathing. Two, three, and at last four tablets were given daily for two
months, by which time the goître had vanished, but the cyst was not changed. (3)
Man, 45, medium height, sedentary, suffered from obesity, vertigo, dyspn œa,
weariness. Pulse feeble, 76; functions normal; appetite and sleep good; weight 230
pounds. With increasing doses of Thyri., up to ten tablets daily, the weight steadily
went down to 160 pounds, activity increasing in proportion. When the dose had
reached four tablets daily the urine became very abundant, but was free from
albumen. The daily dose was increased one tablet every four days. At one stage
Fowler's solution of arsenic, four drops in wine, was given as well to
prevent Thyroidism.

Relations.─Antidoted by: Ars. Compare: Thyr. Urine, Urea.