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.

  • Maddock, Alfred Beaumont.
Date:
1851
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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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Case XIII.—Chronic Cough, Simulating Con SUMPTION.—A young gentleman, aged twenty, an Uni- versity student, of pallid and melancholy countenance, and nervous temperament, consulted me for a dry hacking cough, attended with difficulty of breathing on the slightest exertion, derangement of the stomach, and palpitations of the heart; which symptoms had existed, more or less, for two years. He was much emaciated and depressed; his memory and mental faculties were greatly impaired; and, indeed, he was one of the most pitiable objects I ever beheld. It was believed that he was labouring under pulmonary disease, but the stethoscopic signs did not justify that opinion. The hidden source of all this disturbance of the health I soon discovered to arise from youthful impru- dence—from moral not natural causes. The cough, and increased action of the heart, were quickly repressed in a most remarkable manner by sedative inhalations, and his general health was perfectly restored by the abandonment of pernicious habits, and the aid of vege- table and mineral tonics, change of air, and horse exer- cise. Remarks.—Cases of this painful nature are very frequently presented to my notice, and I have rarely found the above mode of treatment, if properly carried