The treatment of diseases of the throat and lungs by inhalations, with a new inhaling apparatus / by Emil Siegle ; trans. from the 2d German ed. by S. Nickles.

Siegle, Emil, 1833-

Date:: 1868

Credit: The treatment of diseases of the throat and lungs by inhalations, with a new inhaling apparatus / by Emil Siegle ; trans. from the 2d German ed. by S. Nickles. 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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$befalling man, a coagulable plastic exudation also takes place in the connective tissue of the tonsils and the submucous tissue of the pharyngeal mucous membrane. As astringent gargles are attended with consid- erable success in this affection, if used sufficiently early, there is reason to expect much benefit from inhalations of alum, tannin, and nitrate of silver. I have had occasion to employ inhalations only in that stage of the disease in which the hope of producing resolution of the inflammation is no longer warranted, but in which the object of treat- ment ought to be the acceleration of the formation and discharge of pus. In several such cases, besides using the cold wa- ter dressings externally, I directed my patients to inhale the spray of pure w^ater very near the appa- ratus, as it is then warmest, and, acting after the manner of a cataplasm, fulfills its object in the shortest possible time. The patients thus treated declared that this procedure was much more agree- able and reliered the pain more effectually than the troublesome gargling with warm ptisans and decoc- tions, which is scarcely practicable on account of the tension of the diseased parts and the almost complete closure of the mouth. As soon as the yellow color and softness of a circumscribed part of the tonsils admits the conclu- \$