On the use of medicated inhalations in the treatment of diseases of the respiratory organs / by John M. Scudder ; with an appendix on diseases of the nose and throat by Wm. Byrd Scudder.

  • John Milton Scudder
Date:
1895
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Credit: On the use of medicated inhalations in the treatment of diseases of the respiratory organs / by John M. Scudder ; with an appendix on diseases of the nose and throat by Wm. Byrd Scudder. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to other inhalations to effect a double purpose. Thus, added to water, or simple infusions, they are emollient- narcotic ; to tonic pre[>arations, tonic-narcotic, etc.; and as the relief of irritation and cough is one of tlie promi- nent objects of treatment they are extensively employed in this way. It must not be supposed, however, that they are the only remedies for the relief of a cough, tor many times w^e obtain more speedy and better results in this respect from the use of stimulants, tonics and astringents. This class of remedies divide themselves into the volatile and non-volatile, the first being employed with the apparatus described in Figs. 1 and 2, the second class either by vaporization or by the apparatus for atomizing fluids. Almost every narcotic or sedative may be employed in this way, and upon exactly the same principles that would govern their local applica- tion elsewhere. The following will be found good for- mulse for the volatile agents : E'o 1.—Hydrocyanic acid dilute, f5ij ; wine of ipe- cac, paregoric, aa fgss; tincture of conium, f^ij ; rose water, fSxij. Half an ounce of this may be inhaled three or four times a day. ;^o. 3.—Cyanuret of potash, gr. viij; tincture of ipecac, tincture of lobelia, aa f5vj ; tincture of stramo- nium, f.5j ; rose water, .5iv; M. Inhale a teaspoonful every four hours. ^o. 4.—I^ Acidi hydrocyanici dilu»ti, min. xx ; tinc- tur£e hyoscyami, tincturse lupuli, aa f^j; aquse calidre, ad. f§viij: M. (Tanner.) Employed in phthisis, ulcera- tion of the larynx, etc. ]!^o. 5.—I^ Acidi hydrocyanici diluti, min. xv; spiri- tus chloroformi, f5iij, aqua bullientis, fSviij : Mix. lu laryngitis, oedema of the glottis, etc. (Tanner.)