DR NELSON’s Steam Inhaler 500ML,AvonGreen Wellness Soother for Vocal Cords, Headaches Relief and a Nasal, Sinus Decongestant – Excellent for Treating Chest Infections and Pains, Flu, Colds and Coughs

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The steam relaxes your vocal chords so much that to make them do anything too strenuous while they’re in this fragile state can hurt them. By the mid-1860s medical journals and other publications were full of advertisements and announcements of new types of inhalers, hence it is not surprising to find Dr Nelson’s Inhaler being advertised widely in journals such as The Lancet and the British Medical Journal in 1865. It predated the availability of the Sales-Girons-type and Siegle-type nebulizers in Britain by some five years, and even after these other devices were available, the Nelson’s Inhaler required a fraction of the maintenance necessary for the small technical parts in the nebulizers. Dr Nelson’s Steam Vocal inhalers are perfect for the treatment blocked sinus, flu, coughs and colds in the home. He replaced the complicated and irregular pump in Sale-Girons’ device with Mayer’s uterus douche, which was to be operated by hand (Anon, 1862, p 330).

Invented by Dr Nelson in the mid-1860s, for the treatment of chest infections and inhalation issues.This type and others had no heat source, rather they were simply filled with hot water and may be used with or without the addition of medication. Following these early publications, David Hume Nelson seems to have turned his attention to other clinical matters, publishing a series of articles in the British Medical Journal between 1860 and 1863 on ‘ferro-albuminous’ treatments and peptic acids, all of which resulted from a ten-year clinical study in Birmingham into Bright’s disease concluding in 1860 ( Nelson, 1860a; Nelson 1860b). His invention involved shooting a jet of medicated water at a metal plate, the resulting spray being inhaled by the patient.

This inhaler is on display with other examples in the Home Medicine display case at the George Marshall Medical Museum. The opening at the top of the device could be blocked with a cork into which a short metal tube was inserted to form a mouthpiece (in later versions glass was sometimes used); another spout-like outlet to the front remained open. Relieving congestion: Steam can help to loosen mucus and phlegm in the airways, which can help to relieve congestion.g. Friar’s Balsam), all of which were widely available as over-the-counter preparations from apothecaries, druggists, and other unofficial retails units. Within the older hospitals, inhalation treatment sometimes involved the use of ether, chloroform, henbane, stramonium or even coal-tar products such as creosote. He then relocated to London where he lived and worked in the area around Regent’s Park, at first in Wimpole Street, then in Nottingham Terrace off York Gate.

The first announcement in The Lancet was targeted directly at ‘medical men’ ( 1865a, p 152) and subsequent advertising campaigns focused on journals such as the BMJ; advertisements in more popular newspapers towards the end of the century avoided any form of excessive rhetoric. Murray mentions Mudge’s pewter inhaler as the impetus for the renaissance of the medical procedure of inhaling vapours in the mid-1800s, but he is also critical of the practice and technology of inhalation: ‘It is needless to say that they [the inhaled vapours] do little good in the manner they are applied’ (ibid). That said, it’s otherwise in a good state, has a good maker’s mark and is a definite conversation piece! His design replaced the hand-pump of previous nebulizers with two small tubes at right angles to each other, using a small foot-pump and the Bernoulli pressure principle to draw water up through one pipe and generate a spray with the other ( Bergson, 1863, pp 66–67). Siegle’s patent officer in London, George Davies, clearly objected to the infringement and stopped Adams from marketing his inhalation device.

The following guidelines should be followed when using a Dr Nelson's Inhaler: For the inhalation of the vapors of Hot Water the water should be Boiling and the Inhaler not more than half filled. It is notable that inhalation is not mentioned as a form of treatment in any of these lectures, focusing instead on more traditional ‘heroic’ humoral cures such as blood-letting, cupping, leeches and the use of mercury, antimony, and oral expectorants. I’d warn you away from Vocalzones because they numb the feeling in the vocal chords so you won’t feel it if you really are hurting yourself! e. steam) to transport medicinal preparations, there was little danger of accidental scalding of this nature with the simple ceramic jug.

Both Dewar’s version of the Sales-Girons inhaler and Siegle’s inhaler were initially only available for purchase from the instrument makers themselves (in Kirkcaldy and London respectively).While steam inhalers were replaced in conventional respiratory medicine by modern inhaler devices, Dr Nelson’s Inhaler is notable for how it helped to establish inhalation as a popular, inexpensive and trusted form of medical therapy for respiratory ailments in the 1860s.