Consumption, bronchitis, asthma, catarrh, and clergyman's sore throat, successfully treated by medicated inhalations : comprising all the recent improvements in this mode of practice, with the remedies used / by H. P. Dillenback, M.D. ; illustrated with cases and engravings.

  • Dillenback, Hiram P.
Date:
1866
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Credit: Consumption, bronchitis, asthma, catarrh, and clergyman's sore throat, successfully treated by medicated inhalations : comprising all the recent improvements in this mode of practice, with the remedies used / by H. P. Dillenback, M.D. ; illustrated with cases and engravings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tried all the usual remedies without any amendment of his symptoms. His family were much alarmed, and manifested no small degree of anxiety in regard to his case. And here allow me to say, if I had had no remedy to lean upon, differing from the ordinary routine of medi- cines, administered by the stomach, I should have been under the painful necessity of announcing his case incu- rable. But so far from this, I assured his family that in four weeks they would see a great change in his symp- toms for the better; this was not only true, but in five weeks from that time, I am happy to say, to the astonish- ment of all his friends and acquaintances, he went into his shop and performed his accustomed day's work — his business being that of a tin smith. Case 3d. — Mrs. J. M., of West Troy, New York, aged 40. This lady's health had been on the decline for about two years, with occasional attacks of hemorrhage or bleeding from the lungs. I was called to see her in the month of December last, and on examination found there were tubercles of the superior lobe of the left lung, that the process of soften- ing and suppuration was going on, and in two days' time was followed by a discharge of blood, matter, and pus from the lungs, leaving behind an ulcerous cavity. The patient was very much distressed for breath, ac- companied with pain and soreness of the left side, and severe attacks of coughing; and after the breaking and discharging of the ulcers, the expectoration was profuse,