At intervals test the saliva for iodids by moistening starch-paper with it and touching with yellow nitric acid.
Urine of patients taking iodids gives a reddish-violet color, which disappears upon addition of a few drops of strong sodium hyposulphite solution.
It has been stated that iodidsare of no value except in syphilitic arteriosclerosis, but iodids in small doses are stimulant to the thyroid gland, and the thyroid secretes a vasodilating substance.
The most important are nitrites, iodids and thyroid extracts.
Of course, in syphilitic sclerosis large doses of iodidsare indicated and are valuable.
Therefore, the use of either iodids or thyroid would seem to be justified in many instances of high blood pressure.
While iodidsmay not be direct vasodilators and do not render the blood more aplastic or diminish its viscosity, as shown by Capps [Footnote: Capps, J.
If syphilis is a cause of the condition, iodids are always valuable.
Iodids of vegetable alkaloids, if present at all in Tri-Iodides, are present in negligible amounts.
The therapeutic effects of iodids result from a chemical transformation by which molecular iodin is set free in the tissues, thus producing a mild degree of iodism.
The company lays stress on the assumed superiority over the iodids of a preparation containing free iodin.
Since iodids are easily absorbed from the mucous membrane of the gastro-intestinal tract and are usually well tolerated by the stomach, there is no reason for resorting to intravenous injection in their administration.
Finally, the suggestion that by the use of Three Chlorides iodids may be prevented from causing iodism is absurd.
Its alleged freedom from the irritating and untoward effects of ordinary iodids is due, not to any inherent superiority of the preparation, but to the insignificant amount of iodid present.
The indiscriminate administration ofiodids for pulmonary tuberculosis is strongly to be condemned.
Since it contains iron in the ferric condition, Three Chlorides decomposes soluble iodids with the liberation of free iodin.
Therefore the use of iodids in tuberculosis, even in small dosage, should not be undertaken lightly.
The assertion that it is a suitable “vehicle” for the administration of iodids is likely to lead the physician unwittingly to administer free iodin.
Eimer and Amend further assert that the ordinary iodids may to advantage be replaced by Iodotone.
The hydriodates” is an obsolete term formerly applied to iodids of vegetable alkaloids.
It is presumably absorbed, but quite probably after chemical change; it is changed into iodid and, like organic iodids, is excreted somewhat more slowly than when inorganic iodids are administered, but the difference does not appear important.
The statement that this pill ‘does not impair the appetite nor disturb digestion and is well borne by patients who cannot tolerate iodids otherwise administered’ is a bald claim which cannot be justified by experience.
It is further claimed that “for all practical purposes it is nontoxic and nonirritating” and that “it has none of the undesirable features such as is the case with the iodids and the organic preparations of iodin, proprietary or otherwise.
So far as we know, the effects produced by the administration of free iodin do not differ from those produced by the administration of iodids and, therefore, calcidin has no advantage over the iodids, such as sodium iodid.
There are few greater satisfactions open to the physician than to see a tertiary sore which has refused to heal for months or years disappear under the influence of mercury and iodids within a few weeks.
Otherwise the use of iodids in syphilis is of medical rather than general interest.
It has been shown, however, that iodids have no effect on the germs of syphilis, and therefore on the cause of the disease, although they can promote the healing of the sores in the late stages.
So remarkable is this effect that it gives the impression that iodidsare really curing the syphilis itself.
For this reason iodids must always be used in connection with mercury or salvarsan if the disease itself is to be influenced.
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