Pulmonary consumption, bronchitis, asthma, chronic cough, and various diseases of the lungs, air-passages, throat, and larynx, successfully treated by medicated inhalations / by Alfred Beaumont Maddock ; with notes and additions by Charles Greene.

  • Maddock, Alfred Beaumont.
Date:
1855
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Credit: Pulmonary consumption, bronchitis, asthma, chronic cough, and various diseases of the lungs, air-passages, throat, and larynx, successfully treated by medicated inhalations / by Alfred Beaumont Maddock ; with notes and additions by Charles Greene. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PKEFACE TO THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. With pleasure we introduce to the medical profession, and to the public in general, the First American Edition from the Fifth London Edition, of Dr. A. B. Maddock's celebrated work on Inhalation in the cure of diseases of the respiratory organs. We do it, we say, with pleasure, because whatever knowledge can be promulgated that will bear directly against these diseases, and successfully com- bat that most dreadful of them all, and which has hitherto been so fatal, Pulmonary Consumption, should be freely and unhesitatingly tendered. Our introductory re- marks are given in the plainest language, and in the sim- plest form: we merely design to call attention to this trea- tise by guaranteeing a fullness of interest to all interested in the subject. It will be seen that in England it has elicited universal praise, the first and second editions having been sold as soon as issued from the press, and the same undeniable truths, here republished, must not only meet the approval of all candid minds, but must become more than eminently useful. It is a source of regret, that decided opposition to new remedial action too often comes from the medical profes- sion, and a new course of treatment must actually fight its way into favor, when its merits are undeniable, before they are admitted : sometimes even before a fair trial has been granted. Dr. Willson says (see articles on Inhalation in the London Lancet, Vols. I. and II., 1841, '42), We