Unpublished paper, 'On the nature and properties of iodide of potassium and its general applicability to the cure of chronic diseases' by James Heygate Heygate has been led by his experience to estimate highly the medicinal properties of the iodide of potassium (which he prefers to the tincture of iodine) in various diseases, and thinks that when it is administered judiciously no deleterious effects are likely to arise from its use. Marked on back as 'Archives 29 July 1843'. Subject: Medicine / Pathology Received 25 May 1843. Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 4 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'On the nature and properties of iodide of potassium, and its general applicability to the cure of chronic diseases'. 20 May 1843