. Inhalation in the treatment of disease; its therapeutics and practice. A treatise on the inhalation of gases, vapors, fumes, compressed and rarefied air, nebulized fluids, and powders. every house. Buckets of water, with hot bricks or hotbits of iron in them, may be renewed from time to time. * Du croup et de son traitement par la vapeur deau, Paris, 1834. f Diphtheria, Its Symptoms and Treatment, London, 1861,p. 66. X Ziemssens Cyclopedia of Practical Medicine, New York,1875, vol. i. 16 182 THE INHALATION OF The suggestion of Dr. Rush to pour water upon a hotshovel is not to be forgotten in
. Inhalation in the treatment of disease; its therapeutics and practice. A treatise on the inhalation of gases, vapors, fumes, compressed and rarefied air, nebulized fluids, and powders. every house. Buckets of water, with hot bricks or hotbits of iron in them, may be renewed from time to time. * Du croup et de son traitement par la vapeur deau, Paris, 1834. f Diphtheria, Its Symptoms and Treatment, London, 1861,p. 66. X Ziemssens Cyclopedia of Practical Medicine, New York,1875, vol. i. 16 182 THE INHALATION OF The suggestion of Dr. Rush to pour water upon a hotshovel is not to be forgotten in an emergency. The croup-kettle devised by Dr. Pretty, or somemodification of it, is an admirable apparatus for thesystematic evolution of steam. Dr. Prettys kettle, as described by Jenner,* is of tin,with a small aperture at top closed by a screw insteadof an ordinary lid. A spout, three feet in length, pro-jects horizontally from the upper part of the kettle;another spout projects obliquely upwards from near thebottom, ending in a spoon-like projection just under theslightly curved-down open mouth of the upper steam passes out of the upper spout, and the con- Fig. Porters Croup-Kettle. densed vapor drops into the little spoon, and is returnedby the lower spout to the bottom of the kettle. The croup-kettle of Porter (Fig. 15) is a very efficient Op. cit., p. 67. AIRS, GASES, VAPORS, AND FUMES. 183 contrivance, and can be very easily extemporized by anytinsmith. It consists essentially of a tin vessel to holdthe water, which is heated by a spirit-lamp. A funnel-shaped tube in the cover reaches to near the bottom ofthe vessel and serves to admit the external air, while along oblique spout gives egress to the steam, and allowsof its being directed towards the mouth of the patient. Thus employed in croup, it is not unlikely that thesupply of watery vapor prevents the congelation of pseu-do-membrane to a certain extent, and keeps the exudationin a fluid state; thus f
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