Synoptical account of the effects of certain medicines applied in the treatment of asthma and consumption, on the principle of endosmosis / by W.H. Brown.

  • Brown, William Henry.
Date:
1844
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Credit: Synoptical account of the effects of certain medicines applied in the treatment of asthma and consumption, on the principle of endosmosis / by W.H. Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    by prefacing it with a statement of his, —to which I have already alluded in the third paragraph, —and which appeared at page 12 i of the last volume of the Lancet. “ So many persons affected by incipient Phthisis, marked by dulness of sound on percussion, and no doubtful pectoriloquy under the clavicle (?) hsemoptysis and disposition to chills, heats, and early morning perspirations, &c. have been benefited and restored to apparent health by the remedy, or remedies, which I am about to mention, that I cannot but think they possess great efficacy. The first and the principal of the remedies is an alcoholic lotion, constantly applied by means of six folds of linen over and across the upper lobes of the lungs. One part of pure alcohol is mixed with three parts of pure water. It is applied tepid at first, afterwards of the temperature of the atmosphere. It is applied, in small quantity at a time, every five minutes, so that the application may always consist of alcohol and water. (If applied in larger quantity, and less frequently, the alcohol would evaporate, and water alone would be left, and this would be the source of a feeling of discomfort instead of the feeling of glow, which the alcohol induces). The application is easily ooade ; a piece of soft linen, of the size of a very large sheet of letter paper, being folded in the usual manner, is then folded twice more, in lines