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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    respiratory murmur is feeble in one part, and unusually distinct in another, it indicates an obstruction of the air cells, or it may be the consequence of enlargement or dilatation of the cells. In either ease, the friction against the cell walls is diminished, and the respiratory murmur must be propor- tionally feeble; and when we find it entirely wanting in any part of the lungs, it must be the result of complete obstruction in the part. Again, we sometimes find the respiratory sounds unusually loud and distinct; when this occurs in the adult it is called puerile respiration, and may be taken as an indication of disease in some other portion of the lung. It should be borne in mind that in childhood, or during the period of infancy, the respira- tion is always louder and more distinct than in the adult. In the progress of pulmonary disease, we not unfre- quently find, on examination, a blowing sound) — a sound similar to that produced by blowing through a tube,— which is called bronchial respiration. This latter respira- tion may arise from a variety of causes ; in short, any cause affecting the natural proportion between the num- ber and size of the bronchial tubes and air cells, will bring about this result. When a cavity exists in the lungs, communicating with the air pipes or bronchial tubes, we may have what is termed cavernous respi- ration, which is produced by the vibrations of the air against the walls of the cavity, resounding in a hollow space.