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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    age, to grasp, and rend, and wrench away the forms and the fooleries, the mysteries and the mummeries, by which the practice of physic has been encumbered and obscured, and to present it in the plain and palpable simplicity of common sense.—(Lectures,on the Theory and Practice of Physic.) The great obstacle which every medical dis- covery has to contend against is the difficulty— amounting almost to an impossibility—of making the public acquainted with its real nature and tendency. For this reason, as well as from a real feeling of gratitude, I cannot omit to again offer my sincere thanks to the Press for their very cordial efforts in desseminating a knowledge of Inhalation, and their general testimony as to the soundness of my views. Such powerful influences can scarcely fail to per- manently and effectually establish it in public favour. If the truth, or half the truth, were uni- versally known, there would not be, I sincerely believe, a patient afflicted with disease of the re- spiratory organs, throughout the whole United King- dom, who would not feel that in Inhalation, and in it alone, he had a rational and well-founded hope of recovery. A. B. MADDOCK, M.D. 56, Curzon Street, Berkeley Square, London.