On an improved apparatus for spray inhalations / [James Adams].
- James Maxwell Adams
- Date:
- [1868]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On an improved apparatus for spray inhalations / [James Adams]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![From the Author.] ON AN IMPEOYED APPAEATUS FOE SPEAY INHALATIONS. {Read before the Olasgoio Medico-Chirurgical Society, SOth December, 1878.) It is now ten years since I read in this Society a communica- tion on Medicinal Inhalations, with description of an improved apparatus for the production of medicated vapours. * On that occasion I exhibited an Inhaler which was cordially approved by all the members who made it the subject of comment. That approval gave me gratification that compen- sated for an expenditure of much time, thought, and pecuniary outlay. The article immediately came into very general use. It was at first sold under the name of The Adams Inhaler, but of late years, under the unrightful pretensions of a dis- creditable patent it was pirated, and has since been sold under tlie name of Dr. Siegle's Patent Steam Spray Inhaler, with Boiler as suggested by Dr. Adams. I have two objects in brmgmg the mstrument again under your notice. The first is, to show an improvement I have devised, that obviates certain inconveniences attendant upon the use of spray inhalers adds to their efficiency, and lessens the cost of the medicaments employed. My second object is to show how therapeutic pro- gress may be impeded through breach of that medical ethic Which proclaims that medical men lower their status when pney attempt to establish a property in a remedy or other mvention for the relief of disease, whether by concealment, or oy patenting, or by advertising the invention for the benefit ami T Sf-'T^!^ T^'^- objects it is necessary, resnW ? .T,'* interesting, that I should give a short von ?n a 1 . ^''^^ 'P^^y producers. This will enable you to accord to any actual inventor his legitimate claims. + D^Sv*? ^.^''T'^ ^'^^'''^ Jownal, March, 1868. Glasgow Tses!' ^''''''^ ofMo7iey Getting. MacLehose,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21468175_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
