Medicated inhalation in the treatment of pulmonary consumption, bronchitis, asthma, catarrh, and clergymen's sore throat : comprising all the recent discoveries and improvements in this mode of practice, together with the remedies used / by H.P. Dillenback.

  • Dillenback, H. P. (Hiram P.)
Date:
1857
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Credit: Medicated inhalation in the treatment of pulmonary consumption, bronchitis, asthma, catarrh, and clergymen's sore throat : comprising all the recent discoveries and improvements in this mode of practice, together with the remedies used / by H.P. Dillenback. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of saltpetre, the smoking of stramonium, and by the inha- lation of ether. These are hut familiar examples and illustrations of the power of inhaled remedies. If from this crude and imperfect mode of inhalation such great comfort and relief have been experienced, dur- ing a paroxysm of the asthma, what are we not to expect from a careful and judicious selection of the proper remedies, administered scientifically and by the hand of experience. Our object in this mode of treatment is, not only to obtain temporary relief during an asthmatic attack, but by the action of inhaled remedies, daily em- ployed, to soothe and allay the nervous irritability of the lungs, change the morbid character of the mucous mem- brane, and break up the entire train of nervous sympa- thies, upon which these spasmodic attacks depend. These arc the measures we depend upon in all asthmatic and pulmonary diseases ; and we should just as soon think of administering a suitable eyewash into the stomach, with a view to cure chronic inflammation and ulceration of the eyes, as to introduce remedies, however appropriate, into the same organ to cure asthma; since both are diseases of the same membrane, and depend alike on local causes. If local and astringent applications, when applied to the diseased mucous membrane of the eyes, have the power of arresting chronic inflammation of that organ, reason and analogy alone teach, if we had no facts to sustain this doctrine, that a similar result must be pro- duced in applying the same remedies upon the same membrane in the bronchial tubes. This theory is not