An account of some experiments made with the vapour of boiling tar in the treatment of pulmonary consumption ... / [Sir Alexander Crichton].

  • Alexander Crichton
Date:
1817
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Credit: An account of some experiments made with the vapour of boiling tar in the treatment of pulmonary consumption ... / [Sir Alexander Crichton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    your Excellency’s order, the pix liquida on¬ ly, such as is employed in the cordage of ships, with the addition of half an ounce of * sub-carbonate of potash to each pound of tar, our patients are going on as well as they did at first. FIRST CASE—Continued. Lukeria Niketena, attacked with tuber¬ cular phthisis, the bad symptoms of which had so quickly yielded at first to the tar fumiga¬ tion, found herself much worse; for the burnt tar vapour, it caused oppression on her chest, augmentation of her cough, and loss of appe¬ tite. By your Excellency’s advice, we ap¬ plied to her chest a plaister with tartar eme¬ tic, and gave her a quarter of a grain of calo¬ mel, the same of kermes, and one grain of * I ordered the sub-carbonate of potash to be added, in order to destroy the pyro-ligneous acid, which is ge¬ nerally found mixed with the tar, and which excites coughing.
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