A text-book of practical therapeutics . Fig. 109.—Yeos inhaler, made of perforated zinc bound on the edges with chamoisskin and supplied with elastic loops to go back of the ears or around the head. Ona sponge placed in the front of the inhaler is dropped the medicine to be inhaled. tube. A tube of this sort packed with crystals of menthol, and calleda Menthol Inhaler, is largely sold at present. It is of value inacute colds. A useful modification of this straight tube is that ofEvans (Fig. 110). In this apparatusjthe sponge in the bulb is wetwith the Fig. 110.—Evanss pocket inhal
A text-book of practical therapeutics . Fig. 109.—Yeos inhaler, made of perforated zinc bound on the edges with chamoisskin and supplied with elastic loops to go back of the ears or around the head. Ona sponge placed in the front of the inhaler is dropped the medicine to be inhaled. tube. A tube of this sort packed with crystals of menthol, and calleda Menthol Inhaler, is largely sold at present. It is of value inacute colds. A useful modification of this straight tube is that ofEvans (Fig. 110). In this apparatusjthe sponge in the bulb is wetwith the Fig. 110.—Evanss pocket inhaler Half size The finger of the patient may beplaced over the opening marked 1 when exhaling, and over that marked 2 wheninhaling. There are on the market at the present time a large number ofso-called vaporizers or nebulizers, which by the aid of compressed airforce the medicament to be inhaled in a fine spray against the sideof the glass containing it, in this manner still further comminuting itand^causing it to escape from the bottle or bulb as an exceedingly 39 610 REMEDIAL MEASURES OTHER THAN DRUGS fine vapor. The larger ones are supplied, as a rule, with compressedair from a force pump or large hand pump. The smaller ones areworked by a small hand pump or rubber bulb. The forms employedlargely by the writer are those of Oliver and the Glaseptic. (SeeFig. 111.) For a satisfactory use of these nebulizers the medica-ment had better be dissolved in an oily fluid. The following formula
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