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.

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    PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS. The frequency of pulmonary consumption in our variable climate, the almost immedicable nature of the disease, and its ordinary fatality*, are melancholy and familiar truths. No apology therefore can be required for the proposal of any plan of treatment possessing at the same time the advantages of safety and efficacy. The application of medicated vapours to the lungs has been a practice so long known, that the principle of the treatment claims neither the charm of novelty, nor the praise of invention; but the opportunity still remains of making great improvement in the means to be used, and in * This fatality is usually stated by authors as forming a fourth of the general mortality; but this I conceive to be an exaggeration; although un- doubtedly it is a disease the most universally fatal of all others in Europe.