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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    accompanied by debilitating night sweats, with chills in the forenoon and fever in the afternoon. There was much emaciation, loss of strength, and no appetite. After a few days' use of an alterative vapor, her symp- toms improved. But at the end of four weeks, another ulcer was discharged, the result of a previous tubercular deposit; but at this time it affected her general health less, which was wholly to be attributed to the use of medicated inhalation, as she could use no medicine of any kind by the stomach. She continued to persevere with inhalation, believing it to be the only remedy whereby she could be benefited, as she had seen others of her family, one after another, perish, although every remedy had been resorted to, usu- ally administered by the stomach. Encouraged by the relief inhalation afforded her, she persevered through the months of February, March, and April in its use, with decided benefit; her unfavorable symptoms gradually subsided, appetite improved, cough and expectoration became less ; and when May came, she was able to walk and ride in the open air; and with a con- stant use of the inhaler up to this time, she has been ena- bled to walk a mile with ease, and is now enjoying a comfortable degree of health. I feel assured that your method of inhalation is the only reliable treatment for chronic diseases of the throat and lungs, and will, when early and skilfully administered, restore at least a large share of those afflicted with pul- monary diseases.