Consumption curable : the manner in which nature and remedial art operate in effecting a healing process in cases of consumption, and by which the development of tubercles may be prevented / by Francis Hopkins Ramadge.

  • Ramadge, Francis Hopkins, 1793-1867.
Date:
[1839?]
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Credit: Consumption curable : the manner in which nature and remedial art operate in effecting a healing process in cases of consumption, and by which the development of tubercles may be prevented / by Francis Hopkins Ramadge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    changeableness of the climate and the fatigue of travelling. I then went into Francp, hoping, for the time being, my symptoms would be alleviated ; but was again disappointed. And, being wearied out and despairing of any relief from the ordinary means used in such cases, I committed myself entirely to the Lord; being in much doubt whether my health would enable me to reach my home. At Boulogne, on my return, I was obliged to consult another physician; but to no purpose. And, when I returned to London, I was literally choking to death, and had to take to my room and to my bed. In this condition I was providentially relieved by a work beinir put into my hands, entitled Consumption Curable, by Dr. Ramadge, the se- nior physician of the London Lung Hospital. After a cur- sory reading of the book, 1 was led to consult the Doctor, and was by him encouraged to expect entire recovery. He directed, as a principal means—medicine being only auxil- iary—a tube to breathe through. I followed his advice, and ex- perienced by its use, in the course of only one or two days, very essential relief. It was the first thing I had found to alleviate my symptoms in the least. It is now five months since I have been using the tube, and my recovery has been gradually progressing; and, on the first of January last, I re- sumed my labors as chaplain of the City Hospital, from which I had been laid aside for nearly one year: and, what is very remarkable, and speaks volumes for the tube, though I arrived in the city in October last, with the most unfavorable season before me, and have exposed myself to all weathers, (storms not excepted,) and have twice taken severe colds, which set- tled in my bones, I have not once had any cold to settle on my lungs or in the throat; although, previous to my using the tube, the slightest unfavorable change affected me most seriously. The tubes are made of different materials,, and are five feet long, and half an inch in diameter, furnished with a mouthpiece, and piece to contract the end to keep the air from rushing in and out too rapidly, and are used three times a day for the space of from four to six months, discontinuing its use under certain symptoms. I would further remark, that Dr. Ramadge is a regularly educated physician, and has been for nearly twenty years in the London Lung Infirmary, and, for several years past, tho senior physician. This is a public institution, and has been established, if I mistake not,-about one hundred years, and is