Iodine is of value in pericarditis complicating pneumonia or rheumatism (162) and it is one of the remedies useful in hypertrophy of the heart (110). While occupying a minor position in Hahnemann’s Chr. Dis. and in Allen’s Encyclop., Hering raises to the highest place the symptom, sensation as if the heart were being squeezed (113).
Iodine is useful in articular rheumatism, with nightly aggravation, the joints hot, shiny and swollen and very painful. The pains are shifting (149) or wandering, attack the meninges of the brain and finally the heart (162).
It is useful in gonorrhoeal rheumatism (161), in affections of the joints following mercury or syphilis or due to scrofulous affections, and in synovitis of the knee-joint (125), housemaid’s knee.
I use Iodine in the tincture.
