This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on Web of Science (2)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

ARTHUR L. BLOOMFIELD, M.D.

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1957;100(4):678-683.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

It was Charles Coindet, a Swiss physician, who first used iodine in the treatment of goiter.¹ "Up to the present burnt sponge (l'éponge calcinée) has been the basis of all the remedies which have had any success against goiter. Arnold of Villanova [13th century] made this known.... What then is the substance in the sponge which works so specifically against goiter? It seemed probable to me that it was iodine: I was confirmed in this opinion when I learned that Mr. Fife of Edinburgh had found iodine in sponges towards the end of 1819 [*]; within six months I have already verified its surprising effects in this malady." Working with Lugol in Paris² Coindet introduced hydriodic acid and potassium and sodium iodide. He found that certain solutions of potassium iodide were capable of dissolving more iodine (Lugol's solution) which he felt "augmented the potency of the remedy."

But Coindet . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
San Francisco

From the Lane Medical Library.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication April 13, 1957.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?