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

  • Alexander Crichton
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.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    jnent, he cannot declare that the change of air had no influence in the cure. He con- fesses that he never saw any similar good ef- fects produced by the same remedy ; but he recommends it on hypothetical reasoning, which I here omit, wishing to confine myself to the mere relation of facts. In the course of his obseiwations, ]\Ir IMudge says, he be- lieves, that much of the benefit which con- sumptive persons experience from sea-voy- ages, is derived from the tar vapour con- stantly present on board a ship. The injury which was done to consump- tive patients by the inhalation of oxigen gas, and the relief which many of them have ex- perienced in flat and marshy countries, where the air is charged with hydro-carbonic gas, are facts sufficiently known to the Faculty. It is also well known, that these circumstan- ces gave birth to the idea of forming, for con- sumptive patients, artificial airs, which con- tain less oxigen than the common atmosphere; but whether it be that the effort required to inhale gases contained in bladders, bags, or gazometers, be hurtful, and fatigue the lungs,