On the use of oxygen and strychnine in pneumonia / by T. Lauder Brunton and Marmaduke Prickett.

  • Brunton, Thomas Lauder, Sir, 1844-1916.
Date:
1892
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Credit: On the use of oxygen and strychnine in pneumonia / by T. Lauder Brunton and Marmaduke Prickett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    [Reprinted from the British Mcdical Journal, Jan. 23RD, 1892. ON THE USE OF OXYGEN AND STRYCHNINE IN PNEUMONIA. T. LAUDER BRUNTON, M.D., F.R.S. AND MARMADUKE PRICKETT, M.D. The great prevalence of pneumonia at the present time and the number of deaths which it is occasioning, induce us to write the present paper without further delay, although we might have wished to bring forward a larger number of cases. It is self-evident that if we can increase the oxygenating power of the air inhaled by the patients in cases where the breathing surface of the lung is diminished, we may afford great benefit, and in some cases may save hfe. More especially is this likely to be useful where the interference with respiration is of a temporary character, as m cases of acute pneumonia. In some such cases, where one ^ung, or^ one part of a lung, is clearing up, while another part is becoming involved, the question of life or death will be decided by the amount of lung available for respiration. This, again, will depend upon the comparative rate with which the inflammation encroaches on the breath- ing space on the one hand, and the already consolidated lung clears up on the other. It IS possible that an increased oxygenating power of the respire air for even a few hours may sometimes turn the