Practical observations on the treatment and cure of several varieties of pulmonary consumption : and on the effects of the vapour of boiling tar in that disease.

  • Alexander Crichton
Date:
1823
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    sumption, as it is called, that is, where the lungs are gradually destroyed by the formation of tu- bercles without suppuration, this remedy may also be tried, though with this caution, for fear of hemorrhage, that the air of the apartment be charged with a due degree of humidity as well as of the vapour of tar. Some of the most remark- able cures performed by the tar vapour, both in St. Petersburg and Berlin, were in patients who had every symptom of a scrophulous habit; but this does not prove that they had tubercular phthisis; for such patients, like other people, are subject to active inflammation of the lungs, and with them it terminates very readily in suppuration, giving birth to common purulent phthisis. The labouring poor, who, from their necessities and the habit of suffering, seldom apply for relief till they can bear their malady no longer, are frequently attacked with this variety of consumption. Abscesses are often formed in the lungs of such people before they are aware of it, for in general patients of the description alluded to have not much nervous feeling. In all such cases the tar vapour and equal tempera- ture do good, and have cured several. One of the most remarkable cases of this kind is that of c 2