The respirator : for all affections attended with irritation in the air passages as colds, cough, sore throat, asthma, consumption &c.

Date:
[1851?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The respirator : for all affections attended with irritation in the air passages as colds, cough, sore throat, asthma, consumption &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the air they breathe is concerned in producing Cough and other un¬ easiness, and to reflect, that to change such an atmosphere into one which is genial and soothing, is manifestly the most natural, harmless, and effectual means for relieving irritation, after the employment of all active treatment necessary. Such is the action of these instruments, and being portable, they enable the wearers to carry the soothing climate about with them. The stomach and nerves, previously weakened by confine¬ ment and drugs, are thus strengthened by the air and exercise enjoyed by day, and the sleep by night. By thus benefiting the whole system generally, these instruments have, in multitudes of cases, proved emi¬ nently curative. Thousands of persons have derived benefit from them annually since they were introduced ; while not one single individual has suffered, or could possibly suffer, injury from them. For evidence of their effects, the inquirer is referred to every person who has worn them. Amongst sufferers from Bronchitis, there are many who can inform him that, by having recourse to them at the commencement of their ailment they have proved so thoroughly curative, that whereas they could not, when they began to use them, move out of doors without suffering, or sleep at night for cough, they have now (by having used them regularly, and sleeping in them at night when the air was trying) become so well as to be independent of them, even in the coldest weather, and been enabled to give up the use of them altogether. Many others who had unfortunately neglected to use them early, and have gone on coughing for years, so that a cure had become impossible, have, nevertheless, had their symptoms so far relieved, and their health so far benefited by Mr. Jeffreys’s Respirators, as to be conscious that many attacks have been kept off, and their lives been prolonged by the use of these instruments. In Pulmonary Consumption where the constitutional tendency to disease is not inveterate, the Respirator, when employed early, and with full attention in its different forms, and by night as well as by day, has exercised a curative power in many remarka^e cases ; and, in in¬ curable cases its employers speak of it as being a palliative of their suffering and a means of prolonging their lives. Many Asthmatic Persons, who were afraid at first to apply the Respirator lest it should increase the suffocation, have been surprised to find their breathing rapidly improved by its soothing effect, removing the