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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    and, in consequence, more mucus is secreted than is necessary; it therefore collects, and, as the watery parts evaporate, condenses into pellet-shaped masses in the bronchial tubes, in which it has been formed, and a partial obstruction is thus offered to the passage of air into the air-cells supplied from this tube. Notice of this impediment is at once given by the nerves which supply the part, and nature endeavours by a cough,— that is, by a sudden and forcible contraction of the chest,—to expel the air from the cells and tubes behind the obstruction, and thus dislodge the offending matter. This is a plain and simple account of that very common affection called a “cough,” and will explain to our readers the pathology of coughing. As secreting surfaces separate the materials of mucus from healthy blood, so will they remove any morbid products from vitiated blood; and the air-tubes and air-cells which in health secrete mucus which is not only harmless but, as we have shown, beneficial, will, in a state of disease, secrete a new matter, termed tuberculous deposits. Various opinions have been entertained respecting the nature and origin of tubercles. Hippocrates, Galen, and other ancient authors, considered them to be putrified phlegm lodged in the lungs. In later times, Sylvius de la Boe, Tralles, Portal, Broussais,