Cases illustrating and confirming the remedial power of the inhalation of iodine and conium in tubercular phthisis and various disordered states of the lungs and air-passages / By Charles Scudamore.

  • Charles Scudamore
Date:
1834
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Credit: Cases illustrating and confirming the remedial power of the inhalation of iodine and conium in tubercular phthisis and various disordered states of the lungs and air-passages / By Charles Scudamore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and hydrocyanic acid; leeches and blistering, 41. Pro¬ gress of the case to a fatal termination, 42. Post-mortem examination, 43. Observations on the case; layers of fibrine found in the excavations; Laennec on the natural cure of consumption; true indications from the stetho- scop y 44. Importance of early attention to the tubercular disease of the lungs, 45. Case II.—Phthisis Pulmonalis in the last stage ; as in the former case, the disease evidently incurable, and rendered more inveterate by its complication with tubercles and ulcerations in the intestines; deplorable symptoms of the case, 46 to 47. Treatment, 47. Sensible effects of the inhalation of iodine and conium; relief from acetate of morphia, 48. Irritation of the mucous membrane of the bowels relieved by liydr. cum creta and ac. of morph; fatal termination as of necessity expected; post-mortem examination, 49. Observations ; motives for adopting the treatment without the possibility of success; when the pulmonary disease joined with diseased intestines, the prognosis must be bad, 50 to 51. Soothing effects from acetate of morphia; and on opium generally, 51 to 52. Mercury improper with reference only to the lungs, 53. Case III.—Haemoptysis, succeeded by ulceration; hectic fever well marked; from all concurrent symptoms the ex¬ istence of phthisis pulmonalis established; the curative powers of iodine inhalation strongly displayed, 53. Ori¬ ginal symptoms, cough with haemoptysis ; case described, 54 to 55. The inhalation of iodine and conium; instruc¬ tion on the mode of using it; other treatment, 56. Inha¬ lation of conium and hydrocyanic acid, on account of in¬ crease of cough ; that of iodine and conium resumed ; sedative mild aperient draught, 56. Addition of conium for the relief of cough, 57. Great relief to all the sym-