The Tallerman treatment by the local application of super-heated dry air : abstract of papers by medical men, reports from hospitals, and clinical demonstrations.

Date:
1898
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Credit: The Tallerman treatment by the local application of super-heated dry air : abstract of papers by medical men, reports from hospitals, and clinical demonstrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Treatment by inhalation has not, up to the present time, been attended with satisfactory results, mainly owing to the difficulty experienced in volatilising drugs and substances requiring a very high temperature, and to the still greater difficulty of obtaining the entrance of these medicaments into the lower respiratory tracks and cells. This difficulty has now been overcome by the adoption of certain iittmgs (supplied under my patent of 1896), by means of which the apparatus may be instantly made available for the internal application of superheated dry air by inhalation or injection, the vaporization being carried out before or durmg the process of inhalation at temperatures of from 150° to 200° F., and so on until the maximum which the patient can tolerate is reached. wittolu™' -^ further improvement and one which will be invaluable uiider certain assistance] circumstances is that by which patients (unless crippled in all their limbs) are enabled to treat themselves without assistance. ^*'^^ The Tallerman Apparatus has been designed and constructed to enable the use of any heating agent, and especially to provide for the perfect safety of patients under treatment, hence there has not been a single accident to record during the years it has been in existence. Electric heating It is well known that the Company has had its electrically heated apparatus for the past four years, and now that the use of electricity has become more general, electric heaters specially constructed with the same regard for the safety of patients under treatment, will be supplied when required as well as the usual gas burners or oil lamp. Gas heating. It might be explained that under the Company's arrangement for heating by gas, the necessary supply is taken from the gasalier or bracket in ordinary use at patients' houses, and that with the exercise of the most ordinary care in seeing that the vents are open, and that the gas is not turned up too high, the presence of an apparatus in operation cannot be detected by smoke or smell. In conclusion, I would say that if I claim the support of the Medical profession, for the Tallerman Treatment and Apparatus, it is by reason of their originality and great therapeutic value. The unqualified recognition of both by men in the foremost ranks of medical scientists—and for no less a reason than that both apparatus and treatment have always been at the disposal of the profession, and have been worked throughout solely in connection with its members and their interests, notwithstanding the financial sacrifices it entailed, and the most tempting offers to act independently of them. LEWIS A. TALLERMAN. Communications should be addressed to The Secretary, Tallerman Treatment Institute, 50, Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square, London, W. Telegraphic Address—Tallerman, London. Fuller details, reports and photographs of cases, will be found in The Tallerman Treatment, published by Bailliere, Tindall, & Cox, King William Street London, W. '