Chronic bronchitis and its treatment : a clinical study / by William Murrell.
- William Murrell
- Date:
- 1889
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Chronic bronchitis and its treatment : a clinical study / by William Murrell. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![CUBEBS, at the House not being quite up to his mark. His cough troubles him and keeps him awake at night, and there is a good deal of expectoration. His chest is emphysematous, and there is a good deal of rhonchus at both bases. On March 28th he was given an inhalation for half-an-hour with the Vereker's chloride of ammonia inhaler, and this was repeated on the 29th, 30th, and 31st, with benefit both to the cough and shortness of breath. On the 3rd of April the inhalation was repeated, with the addition of a few drops of oil of cubebs, on absorbent cotton wool in the wash-bottle. This was continued daily for half-an-hour until the iith, when all the prominent symptoms had subsided, and he was discharged practically well. Case VKI.—J^^^^ S., cEt. 37, has had a cough chiefly in the winter for eight years. It is always worse when she is pregnant, a condition which occurs frequently. The cough is hard, she says, and it reminds her of a dog]barking m.ore than anything else. The attacks come on in paroxysms and last ten minutes or more, accompanied by copious expectoration. She is a charwoman by](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20390087_0159.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
