Practical observations on the treatment and cure of several varieties of pulmonary consumption : and on the effects of the vapour of boiling tar in that disease.
- Alexander Crichton
- Date:
- 1823
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Practical observations on the treatment and cure of several varieties of pulmonary consumption : and on the effects of the vapour of boiling tar in that disease. 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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![These cases, however, were not sufficiently numerous to justify an opinion, at that time, as to the kinds or varieties of the disease which were curable by this treatment; but the per- suasion in the minds of all the medical men who saw them was, that the patients who had been subjected to the trials laboured under confirmed consumption, and owed their recovery chiefly to the tar fumigation. The cures were sufficiently striking and encouraging to justify my laying them as soon as possible before the public. Since that period I have employed the same means in private practice with] success, but not in the same degree as in the hospital for the poor in Russia; to explain the causes of which is a principal motive for my again addressing the public on this subject, a subject sufficiently interesting to humanity, not to stand in need of any apology for its being brought forward a second time. Among the many diseases which medical men](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2151298x_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
