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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    TAUNTON COURIER, Feb. 4th, 1846. The reputation of Dr. Maddock, standing high as it does among the faculty, will experience no slight access of honour among his professional brethren from the very lucid views he haB disclosed, in connection with a train of valuable facts adduced in their corroboration ; and the public generally will peruse, with convinced judgment and grateful approbation, one of the best expositions of the mode of baffling a mischievous, but certainly not in many cases a cureless malady, which has hitherto appeared. BATH JOURNAL, Oct. 10th, 1846. The work has the character of disinterested integrity in every page. The remedies suggested may be tried with the greatest ease, safety, and benefit. We feel pretty sure that none so afflicted will read the book without being induced to make the trial. MAIDSTONE JOURNAL, March 31st, 1847. It is perfectly evident that the author is a man of much practical expe- rience and ability ; his arguments are very reasonable, and his proofs, in the shape of cases, give them weight and authority. NOTTINGHAM REVIEW, Feb. 27th, 1846. We believe in the efficacy of the plan laid down, inasmuch as we have known several persons most materially relieved by it who exhibited all the symptoms of consumption. SHEFFIELD IRIS, Nov. 12th, 1846. A most interesting and convincing work. We fully believe, with the author, that the greatest possible mischief often arises from drenching the stomach with remedies, when the lungs only are diseased. Inhalation is the only safe mode of treatment in these cases. WESTONIAN MERCURY, Oct. 16th, 1847. In his praiseworthy labours Dr. Maddock claims the aid of all, and ours we cheerfully accord him, hoping his work may go far to shake down the prejudices of medical men, and by convincing arguments pave the way for the introduction of large improvements in the mode of curing, and checking the inroads of, these diseases. DORSET COUNTY CHRONICLE, Sept. 10th, 1846. The perusal of this interesting volume has convinced us that, however we have been accustomed to consider consumption as incurable, yet if, under skilful advice and superintendence, the author's treatment be adopted before the disease has made too great inroads on the constitution, that it may be arrested in its course, and its victims—often the fairest and brightest portion of our population—be spared to be the ornaments of society. NOTTINGHAM MERCURY, Sept. 24th, 1847. Dr. Maddock has deserved well of his country and human nature in general for the attention he has bestowed on this important subject, and the mass of evidence he has brought together in its favour in the volume now before us. A more than ordinarily attentive perusal of this work enables us to recom- mend it with the greatest confidence to our readers. To many families it will prove, we are convinced, an inappreciable boon.