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 ; with notes and additions by Charles Greene.

  • Maddock, Alfred Beaumont.
Date:
1855
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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 ; with notes and additions by Charles Greene. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    have seen to what a surprising extent prejudice has blinded us to the most valuable remedial agents. Many of our best medicines were popular remedies before the medical world would admit them in their vocabulary. Many articles, Iodine, for instance, were thus hesitat- ingly received. A striking example of this backwardness, and strongly illustrative, we have in the introduction of vaccination by Jenner, which was frowned upon and proscribed by physicians as a body before coming into general use. In this work, given facts are identical with happy results; thus an urgent appeal to notice and re- search is at once made, and weightily too, for the living death, Consumption, has, to a sad extent, baffled medical skill and defied the greatest talent. Dr. Maddock has had seventeen years' experience, and has given the subject a full and fair trial, while the cases selected and here re- ported, some fifty or more, are before the reader in minute detail, and must (as we have stated before) to any unpre- judiced mind, present the most satisfactory evidence of the decided superiority of this mode of treatment, in diseases of the lungs and kindred affections. It is a well- known fact that certain articles, useful in treating diseases of the respiratory organs, cannot be advantageously taken into the stomach; and it is also well known how highly important it is in such cases to avoid everything tending to derange the stomach, and thus interfere with its func- tions, so inducing indigestion with its train of evils. And it is also highly desirable in these cases? to employ the gastric juice in reporting to the system through the me- dium of nutritious food, in place of acting upon those pe- culiar remedies the properties of which will be actually changed before being carried into the system. And even when in the internal use of certain articles, the properties desired pass into the circulation, their action is not locally specific, and partial good only can be effected. Now by