Volume 1
Virtue's Household physician : a twentieth century medica a practical description in plain language of all the diseases of men, women and children with the latest discoveries in medicine and most approved methods of treatment / by a corps of eminent specialists, practising physicians and surgeons ; Herbert Buffum [and others].
- Date:
- [1905]
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: Virtue's Household physician : a twentieth century medica a practical description in plain language of all the diseases of men, women and children with the latest discoveries in medicine and most approved methods of treatment / by a corps of eminent specialists, practising physicians and surgeons ; Herbert Buffum [and others]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![glands which press upon neighboring parts and cause Heeding, to stimulate the absorbents to take up and remove tubercles, to dissolve tubercles out of the pulmonary tissue, to cause ulcerous cavities to expel their mattery contents, and to stimulate their sides to take on a healing process. They should be used from three to six times a day, the inhalation continuing from ten to fifteen minutes. Other Inhalants. — Great numbers of other articles have been used, which I have not space to describe. I will mention, however, that the following are sometimes employed with advantage: — For an Expectorant Inhalant, take alcohol, four ounces; tincture of camphor, half an ounce; tincture of tolu, two drams; naphtha, one dram; benzoic acid, thirty grains; oil of bitter almonds, four drops. ]\Iix. For an Anodyne Inhalant, take alcohol, four ounces; naphtha, one di-am; benzoic acid, thirty grains; chloroform, twenty-five drops; tincture of henbane, half an ounce. Mix. For an Astringent Inhalant, take alcohol, four ounces; naphtha, one dram; benzoic acid, thirty grains; chloroform, one dram; tannin, eight grains. Mix. Mode of Inhaling. — For inhaling these, a sponge is fitted into a glass cup, to which a flexible tube is attached. A small quantity of the mixture is poured upon the sponge, and the vapor arising is ilrawn into the lungs through the tube. To the expectorant inhalant may be added, occasionally, half a dram of nitric acid. These latter formulas are the principal ones used by those who practice what is called cold inhalation. A very common mode of inhaling volatile remedies is by saturat- ing a little cotton, contained in a wire basket, with the desired oil or fluid, and placing it over the mouth and nose. It is to be worn throughout the day. Oil of peppermint, creosote, menthol, oil of eucalyptus, etc., etc., are among the more common remedies thus used. A good inhaler can be bought of any dealer in surgical instruments. Constitutional Treatment.—The rapid breathing in consump- tion creates too much oxydation of the blodd, — so much, that the muscles, especially the heart, are usually of a bright red. To prevent the patient from being literally burned up by oxygen, the blood must be de-oxydated as fast as possible. While there is too much of oxygen, there is, at the same time, a deficiency of carbon. Hence the cold hands and feet, and the gen- eral inability to bear frosty weather. The little nutritive arteries, in these thin-blooded persons, stand shivering and torpid with cold, un- able to perform their allotted function of nutrition. There is not fire enough, and fuel must be had in the form of carbon. Hence one of the advantages of cod-liver oil. This oil, too, as carbon, devours](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28124455_0001_0333.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
