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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    bath, I have seen, in the course of a few weeks, the health rapidly improved, and all the powers of the system invig- orated in a wonderful manner. The Use of Tobacco. — In noticing the various predis- ag causes of, disease, I cannot refrain from making a passing allusion to that disgusting practice of smoking and chewing tobacco. Its pernicious effects upon the nervous system can hardly be estimated. The oil of tobacco, it is well known, acts upon the system as a deadly narcotic, a few drops of which are sufficient to kill a large-sized animal. Its effects upon the nervous system of the individual who indulges in the daily practice of smoking or chewing an' no less destructive, though the process may be some- what more gradual. It is true, it does not kill him immediately, but only because he does not take a sufficient amount at one time. It also acts as a constant drain upon the system, in its effect upon the salivary glands, causing an immoderate flow of saliva from the mouth, which is not only very disagreeable, but robs the stomach of its most important agent of digestion; frequently causing nervous debility, dyspepsia, and a long train of other disagreeable and un- pleasant symptoms, too numerous to mention. Excessive smokers, it will be found, have always more or less diffi- culty about the throat. The relaxing and debilitating effects which it produces upon the delicate mucous mem- brane almost invariably lead to inflammation of the mucous follicles, the ultimate tendency of which is to