Assertion: iodine | /r/ObjectUse | used in large amounts
Facets:
value: until the mid-1900s
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: It was used in large amounts until the mid-1900s for treating various dermatologic conditions, chronic lung disease, fungal infestations, tertiary syphilis and even arteriosclerosis.14 The Nobel laureate Dr. Albert Szent Györgi (1893-1986), the physician who discovered vitamin C, wrote: “When I was a medical student, iodine in the form of KI [potassium iodide] was the universal medicine.