TURPENTINE FOR LUNG TREATMENT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2108, 7 October 1890, Page 4

TURPENTINE FOR LUNG TREATMENT.

A writer in the Medical and Surgical Jouraal says: “ I have been using pure oil of turpentine in affections; of the throat for some time, and find better and more satisfactory results than from any other remedy I ever tried. I used the ordinary hand atomiser, and threw a spray of the liquid into the throat every few minutes, or at longer intervals, according to the gravity of the ease. The'bulb of the instrument should be compressed as the act of inspiration commences, so as to ensure application of the remedy to the whole surface, which can be done in eases of children very successfully. It is surprising how a diptheritic membrane will melt away under an almost constant spray of pure oil of turpentine. I now use the turpentine spray whenever a child complains of sore throat of any kind. In cases of tuberculosis of the lungs, bronchitis, and the later stages of pneumonia, I have found the turpentine inhalation very beneficial, I use an atomiser, or paper funnel, from which the turpentine may be inhaled at will. I hang around the bed and in the room flannel cloths saturated in oil of turpentine in all cases of catarrhal bronchitis —in faet, in all affections of the air-passages, and my patients invariably express themselves as being much relieved.’’