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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    “ reduced price, The Nasal Respirator is intended chiefly to he worn 44 during sleep ; and we learn, that by its aid persons with very irritable air- 44 passages and lungs are enabled to secure the advantages of copious venti- 44 lation, by not eschewing a large bed-room filled with cold air. Many of 44 the benefits to invalids with laryngeal and chest diseases, supposed to 44 accrue from the climate of Southern Europe, might, we are ready to 44 believe, be secured by the use, during the English winter, of such 44 Respirators as those now before us, with the additional and inestimable 46 privilege to the patient of not being driven away from his friends in 44 the fallacious hope of a cure. Mr. Julius Jeffreys, who is a member 44 of our profession, deserves high credit for his scientific and elegant 44 inventions.”—Lancet, January 11 th, 1851. FROM THE MEDICAL TIMES. Mr. Jeffreys’s Respirator. 44 The merits of the Respirator, invented by Mr. Jeffreys, have never 44 been fully appreciated by the profession. Here and there are a few 64 medical men, who having experienced in themselves, or in some member 44 of their family, the advantage to be derived from its use, estimate it at 44 its true value; but these cases are the exception. Now Mr. 44 Jeffreys is really a highly scientific professional man, and his Respi- 44 rator a most valuable aid in the treatment of many affections of the 44 chest. 44 The neglect of this instrument by the Profession has arisen from two 44 causes: first, from a misapprehension of the principle on which it is 44 constructed ; and secondly, from a prejudice against all remedial agents 44 advertised in the public journals. 44 The object sought to be attained in the invention of the Respirator 44 was the supply of an uniformly warm and moist, and at the same time, 44 pure atmosphere for the patient, without confining him to the house ; 44 in fact, a portable warm climate. 44 An opinion is widely circulated in the Profession, as well as out of 44 it, that a shawl tied over the mouth will serve all the purposes attained 44 by the Respirator ; this, however, is an error, for the wrapper heats the 44 air only by entangling in its folds a certain quantity of heated breath, 44 a portion of which re-enters the chest with the next indraught of air ; 44 while the Respirator consists of a number of finely-perforated metallic 44 plates, through which the expired air passes; this air gives its warmth 44 to the plates, while it readily makes its escape through them, depositing,