Inhalation, its therapeutics and practice : a treatise on the inhalation of gases, vapors, nebulized fluids, and powders, including a description of the apparatus employed, and a record of numerous experiments, physiological and pathological, with cases / by J. Solis Cohen.

  • Cohen, J. Solis (Jacob Solis), 1838-1927.
Date:
1867
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Credit: Inhalation, its therapeutics and practice : a treatise on the inhalation of gases, vapors, nebulized fluids, and powders, including a description of the apparatus employed, and a record of numerous experiments, physiological and pathological, with cases / by J. Solis Cohen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Flube, proprietor of the baths at Pierrefonds, a water- ing-place near Compeigne, and who first suggested the idea of pulverizing liquids without employing a blast of air, constructed an apparatus for converting these mineral waters into the finest possible spray, with the idea of more thoroughly preparing them for the treatment of diseases of the respiratory organs. Sales- Girons read a paper entitled, '•^ Memoire sur la Chamhi^e de Respiration nouvelle de Pierrefonds, before the Hy- drological Academy of Paris, on December 8th, 1856; in which he described his inhalatorium, and contended that the spray penetrated deeply into the respiratory tract. Doubts were expressed by many of the members as to the fact of such penetrations, and shortly after, experiments were instituted at the different spas to solve the mooted question. Sales-Girons' inlialatorium was a chamber seven me- tres long, four and a half metres wide, and three metres high, in which it was intended that several patients, from one to fifteen, should take inhalations together. During the inhalations the window of the apartment was kept open, and the condensed fluid which accumu- lated upon the floor was carried off by a waste pipe. The patients were prevented from being wet through by appropriate coverings. A suction pump outside of the chamber drew the mineral water up into a tube, Avhich passed through a water-bath heated to the de- sired temperature, and then passed into the chamber, where it terminated in a vertical cylinder to the end of which was attached the pulverizer or apparatus for pro- ducing the spray. Six fine grooves in the cylinder, controlled by a stop-cock, gave exit to as many strongly compressed streams of mineral water, which, striking Avith great force against a metallic plate at short range,