On local applications to the throat and nostrils / by W.M. Banks.

  • Banks, W. Mitchell (William Mitchell), 1842-1904.
Date:
1868
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Credit: On local applications to the throat and nostrils / by W.M. Banks. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    rushing through the upper tube (g) which leads from the boiler, it sucks up the medicated fluid from the bottle (k) along the lower tube (k), and carries it along with it in the shape of a warm soothing mist. The advantage of the tubular boiler is, that the steam is generated quicker, and a fuller supply kept up, while it is at the same time super-heated and dried. In simplicity and ease of management this instrument, if steam is desiderated, cannot be surpassed, and it may be safely intrusted to the care of the most inexperienced nurse or servant without fear of danger.* Dr. Adams's instrument is capable of being used in all diseases of the throat and larynx, but my own impression is that the steam does best when the bronchi are to be reached. Oases of gangrene of the lung and foetid bronchorrhea can be deprived of much of their loathsome nature by this means; and in many cases of chronic bronchitis and phthisis, when the hacking night cough deprives the patient of his sleep, a most soothing effect can be obtained by a good inhalation, before bedtime, of some balsamic or narcotic tincture. Within the last eighteen months, since the rise of the great sulphurous acid mania, not only the profession, but the general public, have become familiar with the instrument which goes by the name of The Spray-producer, and which consists of a modification, by Winterich, of Bergson's tubes, having attached to them Dr. Andrew Clark's hand-ball, by which air is employed as the atomising medium. The adjoining woodcut represents the * Mr. Keynolds keeps this instrument in stock, and has added, at my sug- gestion, a small wooden mouthpiece to guide the jet of steam to the patient's mouth and prevent its going over his face.