GENERAL INDICATIONS for the Iodide
Raw sore feeling in the chest - mucous discharges, foul and green - mercurial taint - ailments better by warmth and motion.
(B) Iodide of Potash in regarded as the specific antidote to the poisonous effects of mercury in the system. The same is a grand remedy for Periostitis - Nightly bone pains - White Swelling - Chronic Hydrocephalus - Chronic Inflammation and Ulceration of the throat - Syphilitic throat affections - Pimples.
Headache over the brow. Potassium iodide 2 grains in 1/2 glass of water, adult, sip it slowly until all taken, cure in 10 minutes.
Chronic Hydrocephalus. Potassium iodide 3 grains, 3 times a day, effected a cure. Sleeplessness. Burn Nitre Paper in the room, on going to bed. If caused by cough or Asthma do the same. To make Nitre Paper, dissolve 4 ounces of Saltpetre in 1/2 pint of boiling water, pour the liquid into a small shallow waiter, wide enough to take the paper, then draw it through the liquid, and dry it by the fire, cut it in pieces about four inches square ready to burn. Tissue paper said to be the best.
Asthma. The one grand unfailing remedy, is said to be Hydriodide of Potash, adult 3 to 5 grains, 3 times a day, in water or syrup. In very old chronic cases, improvement may not commence for a month or more, but it will surely come in time. The medicine will give an excellent appetite. "It has never failed me in a single case during 25 years' practice." The same in larger doses controls Heaves in horses. Smart weed tea, a pint every day mixed in the feed, is also said to cure Heaves.
(E2) Enlarged Glands - Also White Swelling. Make a mixture of Potassium Iodide 100 grains; Iodine 5 grains; water 1 drachm; and Lard 1 ounce; (dissolve the Iodine and Potash in the water, and then add the Lard) apply this night and morning, rubbing it in thoroughly, but gently. "A saturated solution of Chloride of Calcium, used as a lotion, will disperse even scrofulous enlargement of glands; especially if aided by the same taken internally, 3 doses a day, adult 12 to 15 grains in syrup, children 1 to 3 grain doses. The same for scrofulous caries and suppuration. ".