Pulmonary consumption, bronchitis, asthma, chronic cough and various diseases of the lungs, air-passages. throat and larynx, successfully treated by medicated inhalations / by Alfred Beaumont Maddock.

  • Maddock, Alfred Beaumont.
Date:
1851
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Credit: Pulmonary consumption, bronchitis, asthma, chronic cough and various diseases of the lungs, air-passages. throat and larynx, successfully treated by medicated inhalations / by Alfred Beaumont Maddock. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    luhalers, common, very defective, 107. Iodine, inhalation of, its decided curative effects, 92. ', various eminent authorities quoted ^in favour of, 92, 96. , cases successfully treated by. 111, 124, 128, 136, 139, 141, 147, 157, 160, 162. Iodine often injurious when taken by the stomach, 115. , liniment of, beneficial in some cases, 113. Juices preferable to tinctures in inhalations, 105. Lungs, description of, 7. , exercise of, highly important, 49. , how injured by the use of stays, 46. , diseases of, treated by inhalations, 58. , prevalence of complaints of, easily accounted for, 26. , statistics of diseases of, 25. Liquors, fermented, a frequent source of disease, 43. Laryngitis, case of, 126, 157. Larynx nervous affection, case of, 149. Measles, cough following case of, 145. Madeira, climate of, 54. Negroes liable to consumption, 29. Nitrous gas beneficial in convulsive coughs, 77, 132. , how obtained, 77. Oil, cod-liver, 102, 163. Occupation, its infiuence on health, 27, 39. Organs, respiratory, description of, 7. Prevention of disease, means of, 34—57. Prejudices of the Profession against any new treatment, 68, 87, 94, 166. Pulmometer, 23, 44. Passions, their influence on the general health, 56. , the proper control of, 56. Percussion, mode of, described, 20. Prognosis, when favourable and when not, 23, Quackery, condemnation of, 69.