Pulmonary consumption, bronchitis, asthma, chronic cough, and various other diseases of the chest, successfully treated by medicated inhalations / by Alfred Beaumont Maddock.

Date:
1861
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Credit: Pulmonary consumption, bronchitis, asthma, chronic cough, and various other diseases of the chest, successfully treated by medicated inhalations / by Alfred Beaumont Maddock. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Early Stage. Advanced Stage. Vital Capacity. Vital Capacity. Vital Capacity. Vital Capacity. Diseased. Healthy. Diseased. Healthy. Cubic Inches. Cubic inches. Cubic inches. Cubic inches. 113 220 59 135 115 173 89 224 105 173 108 254 130 204 72 135 128 220 80 229 120 229 75 254 100 193 34 246 140 246 171 270 100 204 60 237 110 220 136 229 135 204 192 230 225 300 145 220 200 240 185 230 218 240 129 220 344 434 220 260 196 254 the windpipe were involved. There was also a great deal of wheezing and sense of suffocation at the chest—hence the name Hay-Asthma. The tonsils were slightly inflamed. With the exception of some feverishness, there was no in- dication of much general constitutional derangement; and believing as I did that the affection arose from, and was maintained, by a local condition, and that no real good could be accomplished by sending remedies (as had been previously done) with a blind mission through the stomach, I adopted soothing and astringent inhalations, with directions that the patient should be particular to exhale through the nostrils. Insufflations also of Argent. Nitrat. were resorted to; the ap- plications of which, unlike that of a probang, if properly used, are not attended with the least possible risk or inconvenience.