An account of some experiments made with the vapour of boiling tar in the treatment of pulmonary consumption ... / [Sir Alexander Crichton].

  • Crichton, Alexander, Sir, 1763-1856.
Date:
1817
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Credit: An account of some experiments made with the vapour of boiling tar in the treatment of pulmonary consumption ... / [Sir Alexander Crichton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    begun to cause his bed-room to be fumigated at night with the tar. SECOND CASE. Mrs Fitch, 30 years of age, thin* of a 11* vid complexion, rather flat chested, caught a violent cold during the summer of 1815, be¬ ing then with child for the third time. She had recourse merely to common domestic re¬ medies, and the cough continued through¬ out her pregnancy; as it wras not of a pain¬ ful or intense nature, it gave her no alarm. She was brought to bed in November of a healthy child; but she says it caught her dis¬ order, and died quite exhausted. Mrs Fitch continued to cough during the whole winter, but the spring seemed to revive her, and to diminish her cough considerably. Some time afterwards, however, the cough became more violent than ever, and assumed a very alarm¬ ing character. She then came to consult me about the middle of July 1816. She appear¬ ed to me in the highest degree consumptive ;