A practical treatise on the anti-asthmatic properties of the bladder-podded lobelia ... with instructions as to diet, exercise, &C. ... to which is added, an account of the chirayita herb / by Richard Reece.

  • Reece, Richard, 1775-1831.
Date:
[1829]
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Credit: A practical treatise on the anti-asthmatic properties of the bladder-podded lobelia ... with instructions as to diet, exercise, &C. ... to which is added, an account of the chirayita herb / by Richard Reece. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    name from me. I administered according to his directions, and in less than forty minutes the poor fellow was completely relieved from the distressing paroxysm. The gentleman then told me that it was an herb which grew plentifully in the place in which he had resided, and which, made into a tincture with brandy, and admi- nistered in doses of a tea-spoonful every twenty minutes, gave almost immediate relief. He then showed me the receipt in his pocket-book, which he had got from an American practitioner, and with a copy of it gave me a quantity of the tincture. He afterwards presented me with a quantity of the plant, that I might prepare the tincture for myself. I became convinced that it was of great ser- vice in asthma; so much so, that after I had used all that I had received from my American friend, I tried often to procure it from Baltimore, in the neighbourhood of which he said it grew sponta- neously in great abundance. It was not, however, till about eighteen months since that I was so fortunate as to obtain a fresh supply. An inti- mate friend, who was going to New-York, when I mentioned the plant to him, promised to bring some of it with him on his return, which he did. I have used the Lobelia Infiata in the worst forms of hooping cough, with decided advantage to the little sufferers, in all relieving, and, with the exception of one, speedily curing the disease. There is no medicine with which I am acquainted, that so effectually allays the spasms of asthma