COD LIVER OIL

This oil, expre ed from the liver of the cod-fish, has lately acquired much reputation for its remedial powers. It has been used in the dose of a table-spoonful three or four times a day, in pulmonary phthisis, in various scrofulous affections, m chronic gout and rheumatism, and in some obstinate skin diseases. It is s\ipposed to contain iodine or bromine, to which its efficacy has been ascribed: but, on the other hand, it is a erted that it cures those forms of scrofula and other diseases which do not yield to the usual forms of iodine. [s. 1376]