Instant relief to the asthmatic, or those afflicted with shortness of breath; being an essay on the nature of the lungs and their several disorders, and the only possible and certain means of cure proposed and demonstrated. With the places of sale of the remedy / From a MS. of the late Dr. Lucas.

Date:: 1774

Credit: Instant relief to the asthmatic, or those afflicted with shortness of breath; being an essay on the nature of the lungs and their several disorders, and the only possible and certain means of cure proposed and demonstrated. With the places of sale of the remedy / From a MS. of the late Dr. Lucas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$\ .. t f ] ■ the prefent chymical improvement, the learned Boerhaave and Mead gave rife thereto, from the frequent mention in their works of volatilifed applications in difor- ders of the lungs. The fame thing may be thought of at times by different perfons, without each kliowing of or receiving any hint from the other, fo that each may equally claim the merits of the invention : And though in this inftance the author has tried many and expenfive proceffes, as well from the balfams as from acids, yet he could find none of them (except the prefent) containing the active power of the one dulcified, with the falubrity of the other. Hand the criterions of true efficacy in fuch diforders. Volatile fait of acids, neverthelefs, was known to the ancients, as well as many judicious moderns of chy¬ mical knowledge, and if it does not de¬ clare the originality of the invention in the author, albeit lie prefers the health of mankind, and the love of truth, to the applaufe and emoluments of ufing other Ids efficacious applications, although they$