Lectures delivered at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, 1883-1884 / by Robert J. Lee.

  • Lee, Robert James
Date:
1885
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Credit: Lectures delivered at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, 1883-1884 / by Robert J. Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and care. If you do not understand the scientific principle on which a jet of steam acts in producing a current of air you might waste time in attempting improvements in what I have shown you. An ingenious young man who was house surgeon at this hospital some years ago indulged in this idea, and brought the results of his experiments before the Medico- Chirurgical Society. I refrained from exposing his ignorance and pretensions to originality, and trusted that time would correct the former and moderate the latter. But I was at last compelled to take a different course, for frequent advertisement of this machine, claiming originality and using the name of the Boyal Medico- Chirurgical Society as its guarantee forced me in the interests of the Society and of the profession to interfere. If any of you would like to go further into this matter and feel some interest in it, we can discuss it at some future time.'] I have said enough now to show you that we are aware of the necessity of being careful and accurate in the therapeutic experiments we have made in regard to the use of inhalation. With confidence I can assure you, speaking from several years experience that you can relieve whooping-cough by this method, but I will not go as far as some of my friends and assert that carbolic acid cures the malady. To say this would be to go beyond the truth. All we can? fairly claim for the method is, that it is better than others, particularly in respect to the relief it affords to the local symptoms to which I referred when we discussed the subject of whooping-cough.
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