The Cincinnati Medical News (Volume 18) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1889 Excerpt: ... Creosote In Diseases Of The Air Passages.--Dr. William Perry Watson, of Jersey City, N. J., speaks in very high terms, in a recent issue of the Virginia Medical Monthly, of the use of creosote in a number of forms of diseases of the air passages. He uses the remedy both by inhalation and internally. The inhaler employed is Robinson's Perforated Zinc Inhaler made by the Hazards, of New York. The inhalants, which he numbers one and two, are as follows: (i). Ij-. Creosoti (Morson's) Sp. Chloroformi Alcoholis, of each equal parts M. Five to twenty drops to be used on the inhaler every three hours. (2). Ej. lodoformi, .. grs. xxiv Creosoti ( Morson's) M. iv Ol. Eucalypti, .. M. viii Chloroformi, . M. xlviii Alcoholis, Etheris, .. aa q. s. ad 5 ss M. Five to twenty drops to be used on the inhaler every three hours. Creosote was given internally after the following formula: (3). fy. Creosoti (Morson's), M. xii Glycerinae (Price's), . 5jSp. Frumenti, . q. s. ad. 5ij. M. Half teaspoonful every three hours well diluted. Dr. Watson makes the following remarks: "In 1878, Beverly Robinson, of New York, said, 'I am very much pleased with this remedy, and believe it merits a very extensive trial.' During the succeeding seven years, Robinson continued its use, believing it to be a good anti-catarrhal agent, and upon the publication of Jaccoud's 'Treatise on Pulmonary Phthisis, ' he became very much impressed with his 'statements about the advantages resulting from the internal exhibition of creosote in this disease.' And in an address before the American Climatological Association in New York, May 27. 1885, and in a clinical lecture at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, he advocates very warmly the use of creosote as an inhalant and by the stomach in the treatment of phthisi.