An account of some experiments made with the vapour of boiling tar, in the cure of pulmonary consumption.

  • Crichton, Alexander, Sir, 1763-1856.
Date:
1817
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Credit: An account of some experiments made with the vapour of boiling tar, in the cure of pulmonary consumption. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MATHEW BAILLIE, M.D.E.R.S. \ PHYSICIAN IN ORDINARY TO THE KING, »> S^c. <5’C. <5’C. My Dear Sir, On the 2d of February, (Old Style,) I did m^-self the honour of wri- ting to you on the subject of the follow- ing pages. I stated to you, at that time, the success I had met with in the treat- ment of Tubercular Consumption, by causing the patient to live in an atmos- phere charged with the vapour of Boil- ing Tar; and 1 promised to communi- catei to you the result of further trials, as soon as they should be completed. Several patients, whose lives not only I, but other physicians, entirely despair-