Medical advice to the consumptive and asthmatic people of England : wherein the present method of treating disorders of the lungs is shewn to be futile and fundamentally wrong, and a new and easy method of cure proposed / by Philip Stern, M.D.

  • Stern, Philip.
Date:
1787
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Credit: Medical advice to the consumptive and asthmatic people of England : wherein the present method of treating disorders of the lungs is shewn to be futile and fundamentally wrong, and a new and easy method of cure proposed / by Philip Stern, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ] I therefore, by way of experiment, drop- ped a few drops of it into boiling water, and found, beyond all poffibility of a doubt, that the fteam was richly impregnated, both with the antifpafmodic and antifeptic qua- lities of the menftruum, and alfo with the balfamic and falubrious principles of the fragrant refins. This vapour I drew in with my breath, for a confidcrable time, and found it not in the leaft irritating, but, on the contrary, extremely mild and agreeable. Being now defirous to afcertain the quan- tity of the diflblved refins, which thus rofe with the vapour,' I poured half an ounce of my folution into a quantity of hot water; and after e^'aporating the whole I found re- maining in the veflel a very finall propor- tion of the weight of balfam which had been diffolved in that quantity, and confe- quently byiiiuch thegreatefl part had rifen with the vapour. Let me now aflc the reader, whether he is not of opinion, that the happieft effeds may rationally be expeded from fuch a medicine thus applied, by means of the. fleam of hot water, directly to the injured lungs? Whether he does not think it pro- bable, that the acrimony of the irritating fluid will be thus obtunded, either in a recent cold, or more advanced fl-ate of the difeafe ? Whether the fpafmodie conilric- tion of the veffels will not thus be relaxed,