First report of Dr. John Francis Churchill's free stœchiological dispensary, for consumption, and diseases of the lungs, windpipe, nose and throat : with an appendix on croup, diphtheria, and hay-fever / [John Francis Churchill].

  • Churchill, J. Francis (John Francis)
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[1886]
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Credit: First report of Dr. John Francis Churchill's free stœchiological dispensary, for consumption, and diseases of the lungs, windpipe, nose and throat : with an appendix on croup, diphtheria, and hay-fever / [John Francis Churchill]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sometimes in twenty-four, and almost always in forty-eight hours. There has been, so to speak, no period of convalescence, the patient has been afoot the next day. Whenever these results have been less complete, and recovery has taken a longer time, that has been because the patient had been previously treated by caustics or by some other of the local applications generally used. Croup. My experience with regard to Croup is rather more restricted still than for Diphtheria, but the cases which I myself have treated, and some others in which Spirone has been used by other persons, leave no doubt in my mind, that in this disease, which is fundamentally the same as Diphtheria, its effect is identically the same. HAY EEVEE. Hay fever is far from being such a serious complaint as Croup or Diphtheria, but it is often very distressing indeed, enough so to make many persons say, while suffering under its infliction, that with it, ‘life is not worth living.’ It is inveterately obstinate : to such a degree, particularly in the United States, that a society comprising a large number of sufferers, has now been in existence there since the year 1874, for the purpose of com¬ bining their mutual efforts in order to find a remedy. I am not aware that they have as yet succeeded. So far have I not only never met with a case, which has not been cured by the use of Spirone, under my own direction, but have found that the relief has always been immediate, and that taking account of the various degrees of severity of the different cases, the therapeutical effects, and the different phases of the progress towards recovery, have always been uniformly the same, thus showing the same characteristic and specific action, which I have already noted with regard to Diphtheria. I again repeat that I use the word specific advisedly. Cases of Hay Eever. LX. A young Erench Lady, aged 19, had been suffering from Hay Eever every year in the months of May and June, ever since she was four years old. When she came to consult me, the symptoms were extremely violent, sneezing in particular was almost incessant, so much so, that it would some¬ times last for two hours together, with hardly any interval between the par¬ oxysms. The consequence was that her features were altogether deformed and were in such a state of turgescence that her nose and lips were at least double their natural size, her eyes were quite blood-shot, she had had several attacks of bleeding at the nose, and her strength and appetite were altogether gone. She had not taken any food or even liquids for nearly two days. She had tried almost every treatment in vain and without any relief. She was fcnmediately relieved by the application of Spirone. The frequency and violence of the symDtoms were diminished by more than half. After the