A serious address, on the dangerous consequences of neglecting common coughs and colds, with ample directions for the prevention and cure of consumptions : to which are added, observations on the hooping cough and asthma / by Thomas Hayes, member of the Corporation of Surgeons, London, &c.

  • Hayes, Thomas, active 1783-1786.
Date:
1796
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Credit: A serious address, on the dangerous consequences of neglecting common coughs and colds, with ample directions for the prevention and cure of consumptions : to which are added, observations on the hooping cough and asthma / by Thomas Hayes, member of the Corporation of Surgeons, London, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    will be fpoken more of when I come to treat or* opiates. The following emulfion may be prepared of ■white poppy-feeds or blanched fweet almonds, which will not only fheath the palTage to the lungs, but be nutritious and cooling, and very good in fevers of the'inflammatory kind. Take of almonds blanched frelh and found, or of white poppey-feeds, two ounces, beat them in a marble mortar with the fame quantity of fugar, till they are fmooth, adding a fmall quan- tity of water to facilitate that purpofe ; a quart of Briitol, or pure water, or barley water, may be added to thefe ingredients and (train it through a muflin rag or fine fieve, and then it is fit tor life ; if it is required to be more mucilaginous, an ounce of gum arabic may be diifolved in it. Half a pint of it taken a little warm now and then wonderfully (heaths the (harp mucus, and dilutes the acrimonious juices in the firft paflages. I have already fpoken of one fpecies of inha- lation, viz, the vapour from a pan of water and camomile flowers, but to anfwer a difFerent pur- pofe than what I am going to advife another tor. The great Boerhaave, Baron Van Swieten, and the late Sir John Pringle, very ftrongly recom- mended the receiving of warm vapours to the lungs, in coughs and complaints of that organ ; my experience, if of any weight after fuch au- thorities, confirms their utility. Mr. Mudge, a verv ingenious furgeon at Plymouth, has lately publifhed a book, defcribing a machine which conveys the vapour very eornmodiouny to the lungs, which he calls an Inhaler, wherein he declares