Note 601 — PHARMACOLOGIA. (continued 6)
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Dr. Mudge in the year 1782 had recommended the fumigation of balsams, in a pamphlet on the subject of his Inhaler; little or no notice however was taken of this recommendation, a circumstance which cannot excite our surprise when we consider the extravagant terms in which the pretensions of the remedy were supported. “I believe,” says he, “that much of the benefit which consumptive persons experience from sea voyages, is derived from the tar vapour constantly present on board a ship!”
A Radical and Expeditious Cure for a recent Catarrhous Cough. By J. Mudge, Plymouth, 1783.