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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    ment, he cannot declare that the change of air had no influence in the cure. He con¬ fesses that he never saw any similar good ef¬ fects produced by the same remedy ; but he recommends it on hypothetical reasoning, which I here omit, wishing to confine myself to the mere relation of facts. In the course of his observations, Mr Mudge says, he be¬ lieves, that much of the benefit which con¬ sumptive persons experience from sea-voy¬ ages, is derived from the tar vapour con¬ stantly present on board a ship. The injury which was done to consump¬ tive patients by the inhalation of oxigen gas, and the relief which many of them have ex¬ perienced in flat and marshy countries, where the air is charged with hydro-carbonic gas, are facts sufficiently known to the Faculty, It is also well known, that these circumstan¬ ces gave birth to the idea of forming, for con¬ sumptive patients, artificial airs, which con¬ tain less oxigen than the common atmosphere; but whether it be that the effort required to inhale gases contained in bladders, bags, or gazometers, be hurtful, and fatigue the lungs,