Care of patients with deficiencies and abnormalities associated with the cardiopulmonary system. It includes the therapeutic use of medical gases and their administrative apparatus, environmental control systems, humidification, aerosols, ventilatory support, bronchopulmonary drainage and exercise, respiratory rehabilitation, assistance with cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and maintenance of natural, artificial, and mechanical airways.
    

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Specification of John Savory : apparatus for inhaling medicinal powders or vapours.

The inhalation treatment of diseases of the organs of respiration including consumption / by Arthur Hill Hassall.

An historical essay on medicated inhalation : and letters on consumption, asthma, bronchitis, sore throat, loss of voice, nasal catarrh, weak lungs, etc. etc. / by N.B. Wolfe.

The science and art of deep breathing as a prophylactic and therapeutic agent in consumption / by Shozaburo Otabe.

On the inhalation of cold medicated vapors in phthisis pulmonalis, and the use of showering syringes in laryngeal and catarrhal diseases / by Guilford D. Sanborn.

Symposium: Inhalational therapy. Historical background / Alvan L. Barach.

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The inhalation treatment of diseases of the organs of respiration including consumption / by Arthur Hill Hassall.

An historical essay on medicated inhalation : and letters on consumption, asthma, bronchitis, sore throat, loss of voice, nasal catarrh, weak lungs, etc. etc. / by N.B. Wolfe.

The science and art of deep breathing as a prophylactic and therapeutic agent in consumption / by Shozaburo Otabe.

On the inhalation of cold medicated vapors in phthisis pulmonalis, and the use of showering syringes in laryngeal and catarrhal diseases / by Guilford D. Sanborn.

Symposium: Inhalational therapy. Historical background / Alvan L. Barach.