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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    to health, 79. Original symptom, slight haemoptysis ; the general symptoms ; the expectoration, 80. Indications by the stethoscope and percussion, 81. Treatment, blistering, inhalation of iodine and eonium, 81. The lotion; local effects of the inhalation, 82. Advantage of hydrocyanic acid; material amendment, 83. Satisfactory effects of inhaling described by patient; compound sarsaparilla mix¬ ture, 84. Recovery; observations, 85. Principles of practice ; Laennec on bleeding in tubercular phthisis, 80. General treatment to be joined with the inhaling; what benefit from hydrocyanic acid, 87. Counter-irritation ; blisters, caustic issue, seton, tartar emetic ointment, 89. Acetic infusion of cantharides ; the perpetual blister, 90. Laennec on caustic issue and blister, 91. Principles of general treatment; different tonics ; Brandish’s alkaline liquor; generous diet, 92 to 95. Case VII.—Empyema, with tubercles in the lungs ; conva¬ lescence promising recovery; exposure to cold and wet producing a severe relapse of all the symptoms, and which proved eventually fatal, 95. Sudden seizure from cold; haemoptysis, 96. Empyema; general symptoms, 97. In¬ dications by stethoscope and percussion, 98. Iodine inha¬ lation and other treatment, 99. Amendment remarkable ; liquor cinchon. cordifoh, 100. Fatal relapse from expo¬ sure, 101. Observations; the treatment in the beginning highly useful, but the subsequent imprudence of the patient productive of the worst consequences, 102. Case VIII.— Ulcer of the larynx, with tubercles at the apex of the lung : the good effects of iodine inhalation well ex¬ emplified, although the termination of the case was fatal, 102. The symptoms too surely indicating a hopeless case, 103. Stethoscope and percussion; local application of nitrate of silver, 104. Amendment produced by the