The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-02-22

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of hyssop, cilicia, sulphur, and
asphalt" His method was crude, but his
perception of the principle of direct medi-
cations was clear.
Aristotle asks in one of his problems;
us it because nurses breathe the corrupt
air of the consumptiye that they acquire
the same dsease3'
Dioscorides, who lived in the early part
of the Christian era, treated diseases OF the
lungs, by inhaling the fumigstions OF colts
foot, native sulphur, sweet calamus, water
crosses, dry squils, oil Of cedar and tennel
| seed.
Aurelianus recommended the "smoke oil
burning hyssep, thyme, origanum, sulphur,
sandarac, aloes, and styrax," to be drawn
in the lungs for asthma.
Arisias favored sea voyages for consump-
ton, alleging that breathing salt air dried
up the ulcers on the lungs"
Avicenna treated asthma by inhaling the
fumigations of myrrh, spikenard, cassis,
ssif1on, patwort, and styrax.
Paracelsus traced the origin OF con-
sumption to the head (catarrh), whence it
descended TO the lungs, causing cough,
fever, and sweats, and speaks favoraby OF
inhaing the fumigatons Of arsenic as
remedy.
Pliny praised the resnous woods for
their healing odors, and said 40 breathe
them is more beneficial to the invalid
than voyage to Egypt orr course of milk
in the mountains
Galen treated catarrh and consumption,
by having his patients inhale the smoke Of
arsenic and burnt sponge.
Among modern writers, Sir Geo. Baker,
Drs. Rush, Cox, Chandler, Greatly, Schnei,
der, Helmont, Dural, Kenrath, Green, and
others equally we'll known in the literature
OF medicine, advocate the treatment Of
diseases of the throat aud lungs by in.
haling remedies
In the beginning of the present century
a common sense Frenchman, citizen Bal.
lard, was the proprietor of salt works
near Paris which gave employment to sew
eral hundred persons. He noticed that
none Of his workmen suffered with disease
of the lungs, and that those who entered
his establishment seemingly in an advanced
stage Of consumption soon got well. He
communicated this fact 10 the French pub.
lie; but no notice was taken Of his dis.
covery until DR.. Nudge, Of England, rec
ognized its Importance and began TO treat
diseases of the nose, throat, and lungs by
the employment Of inhaling remedies.
In lS45 DR.. Elliotson introduced medi.
Gated inhaations for treating pulmonary
disease, in the Brompton Hospital, London,
and made known his success in tabulatad
report, which officially announces consump-
ton to be cursbl mslady.
Sir Charles Scudimore published
work, in ls4S, in which he advocates medi.
Gated inhalations in the trea tnent of pul.
monary disease. In the same year, after
an exhaustive reading on the subject,
used inhaling remedies myself for asthma,
with which had suffered for many years.
The treatment was successful and for
thirty'two years there has been no return
Of the disease.
have published several works, adyo-
eating inhaling treatm ent FOR pulmonary
disease as distinct school of medicine.
Men must be educated to understand
the new power and quality medicines ac-
quire when reduced to condition of va.
por, to control, modify, or remove disease
from the pulmonary structure. The fol-
lowing will be read ms an interesting con.
clusion to this chapter
PHILADELPHIA, December 30, 1861.
Dr. N. B. WoLFE--DEAR SIR,--I have
just read your work on the treatment of
Pulmonary Diseases by Medicated Inhala
tons" and can not but coincide with YOU
that it is the only rational treatment ever vet
proposed for those diseases, inasmuch as
the medcated vapor reaches the seat of the
disease directly, just as a topical applica
ton would an external sore. Ia a practice
of many years, have never yet been able
to discuss or resolve tubercal in the lungs
by the introduction Of medicines into the
stomach, although have almost exhausted
our Materia Medica to discover such
remedy. Furthermore, medicines in the
stomach, after having been subjected to
chymitication, become 80 diffused and at.
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