Cases illustrative of the efficacy of various medicines admistered by inhalation in pulmonary consumption : in certain morbid states of the trachea and bronchial tubes, attended with distressing cough and in asthma / by Charles Scudamore.

  • Scudamore, Charles, 1779-1849.
Date:
1830
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Credit: Cases illustrative of the efficacy of various medicines admistered by inhalation in pulmonary consumption : in certain morbid states of the trachea and bronchial tubes, attended with distressing cough and in asthma / by Charles Scudamore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    expressed his conviction of its being by far the most serviceable remedy. Chlorine, from its great volatility, comes over so quickly with the aqueous vapour, that the total quantity used at each inhalation should be partitioned into doses, if the process be continued beyond four or five minutes ; otherwise its action will at first be too strong, and at last too weak. For the temperature of the water, I prefer 110°; and for each of the subdivided doses, from ten to twenty minims. I have usually found that the patient prefers the plan of protracted inhala- tion three times a day, to the greater frequency for a shorter time; although I consider this point for the most part optional. Those who are desirous of more information than I have given respecting the inhalation of chlorine, as a remedy in tubercular phthisis, may with advantage consult the Memoirs of M. Gan» nal, published in France, recently translated by Mr. Potter, of Old Compton Street. I shall be happy to learn that the highly favourable report of M. Gannal becomes supported by the testi-