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"LEAD POISONING.... For chronic poisoning remove the cause. Potassium iodide, five to ten grains three times a day. Not to be given in acute cases or when the symptoms are very severe, until what is in the bowels is removed."
CHRONIC RHEUMATISM.... Iodide of potash also is very useful.
RHEUMATIC GOUT.... Sometimes iodide of potash is good.
SYPHILIS OF THE BRAIN.... For this there must be radical and careful treatment with mercury and iodide of potash; with tonics and general building up treatment, and then even if the patient lives he may be a nuisance to himself and others.
PALSY... Give salts and iodide of potash.
APHASIA.... If from syphilis, iodide of potash and mercury.
BRONCHIAL ASTHMA.... To Prevent Recurrence.--Take five to twenty grains of iodide of potash three times a day. Do not eat much at night.
ARTHRITIS.... Benefit is also derived from the administration of cod-liver oil, and of tonics, such as strychnin, arsenic, and iron, and in some cases of iodide of potassium.
DISEASES OF MUSCLES AND TENDONS.... Remedies such as salicylates are given for the relief of pain, and for this purpose drugs of the aspirin type are to be preferred, and these may be followed by large doses of iodide of potassium."
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