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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    Case LXVIII.—The Symptoms of a very mixed cha- racter; NOT WITHOUT GROUNDS OF SUSPICION AS TO Tubercular Irritation, but the leading charac- ter of the Thoracic Disorder nervous. An unmarried lady, aged twenty-six, slight in form, and of the nervous temperament, had for several years been subject to winter cough. She had lost, from consumption, a sister, a sister-in-law, and two uncles. Two months before she consulted me she had taken cold from sitting on a stone bench, when the wind was N.E., with a hot sun. I found her complaining of a troublesome cough, which at times was violently spasmodic; and there was seldom aDy secretion; and when any appeared, it was yellowish white, not streaky. The chest was sore, with the feeling of having been bruised; the breathing quickened on the slightest exertion; severely affected with palpitation of the heart, and often shooting pains in that region; her general nervous agitation so re- markable, that sometimes she recoiired to have her legs held for almost an horn- after going to bed. The state of skin was most variable and capricious; hot on cold days, cold on hot; one night perspiring profusely, another dry and feverish. She had wasted and lost strength; and this was the greatest cause of alarm. The catamenia had been suspended two months; the pulse ranged from 90 to 110; the animal heat only 97°. By percussion and auscultation the signs were not satisfactory, there being some dulness of sound, and obscure respiration here and there; but these indications were not sufficiently marked to indicate tubercles. The appetite was very deficient, the tongue coated, the diges- tion weak and irregular. The treatment consisted of inhala- tions, combined with general remedies.