Pulmonary consumption : bronchitis, asthma, chronic cough, and various other diseases of the chest, successfully treated by medicated inhalations / by Alfred Beaumont Maddock ; illustrated with original and select cases.

  • Maddock, Alfred Beaumont.
Date:
1859
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Credit: Pulmonary consumption : bronchitis, asthma, chronic cough, and various other diseases of the chest, successfully treated by medicated inhalations / by Alfred Beaumont Maddock ; illustrated with original and select cases. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I am gratified in being enabled to state that an enlarged experience, derived from a more extensive practice in affections of the chest than usually falls to the lot of an individual, has tended to confirm the opinion which I expressed in the first edition of this treatise, viz.—that no plan which has ever been proposed for the treatment of pulmonary, bronchial, laryngeal, or tracheal diseases, is so na- tural in its action, so complete in its application, and so successful in its results, as the inhalation of medicated vapours, when conjoined with general remedies. I say conjoined with general remedies, for, although the direct application of medicines to the diseased organ by Inhalation is the only means by which affections of the chest can possibly be effectually reached and acted on, it must ever be borne in mind that I do not exclude such other measures as the progress or other circumstances of the case suggest or admit; conscious, to quote the language of Horace,— • Altcrius sic Altera poscit opem res, et conjurat amice. There are many sympathetic affections, as func- tional derangement of the bowels, liver, suppression of accustomed secretions, &c, which not only add greatly to the p>atient's distress, but, if overlooked, would retard, or altogether frustrate, a recovery. These complications, it is hardly necessary to say, require the administration of routine remedies.