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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This type of inhaler proved so efficient that its design has changed little since Dr Nelson’s Victorian model. Unveiled at the conclusion of a meeting of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society in 1861, [ 1] ‘Dr Nelson’s Improved Inhaler’ was one of the most important milestones in the genesis of reliable treatment of respiratory ailments in the modern era. 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). In the same year in Berlin J Bergson, Georg Lewin’s successor in the Inhalatorium at Berlin University, advertised his ‘Hydrokonion’ nebulizer on which he had been experimenting for some years ( Bergson, 1862, p 389). In a lecture published in the BMJ and subsequently republished in various regional medical journals across Britain and North America, the eminent Professor of Materia Medica and Medicine at King’s College London, George Johnson, also spoke of having used the inhaler in advanced respiratory patients ( Johnson, 1869, p 434).

Unveiled at the conclusion of a meeting of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society in 1861, ‘Dr Nelson’s Improved Inhaler’ was a very important milestone in the evolution of the treatment of respiratory ailments in the modern era as it was affordable and suitable for self-medication. As was occasionally the practice at the regular meetings of the RMCS, a certain Dr Nelson presented his prototype for a new therapeutic device which he had designed and developed himself, at the close of business on 28 May 1861. Its emergence from the orbit of the RMCS can also help us to reconstruct a surprisingly thorough framework of what was essentially quality control and professional recommendation, which was highly unusual for pharmaceutical technologies in the nineteenth century. In the Medical Times and Gazette the London Fog that killed 273 people as a result of bronchial complaints in 1873 was reported as ‘one of the most disastrous this generation has known. 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!

Similarly, self-medication with the inhaler was connected with prophylactic treatment of respiratory conditions. However, Horace Dobell recommends that the water should not exceed 170 degrees when inhalation begins ( Dobell, 1872, p 203), and William Abbotts Smith generally recommends three vapour inhalations per day, with each session lasting between 15 and 20 minutes ( 1869, pp 60–61, p 72). While the form of medication may have changed from medicated steam to bronchodilatory powders and steroids ( Sanders, 2007, p 79), the ‘cleanliness, portability, and cheapness’ of the Dr Nelson’s Inhaler mentioned in The Lancet ( 1865a, p 152) are qualities which are still central to inhalation devices today. Abbotts Smith also provides the theoretical background for the new-found popularity of inhalation therapy in the mid-nineteenth century.

As indicated by the origins of inhalation therapies across Europe in spa resorts, the main forms of palliative therapy involved travelling to suitable locations such seaside baths and thermal baths, or even further afield to warmer climates ( Waldenburg, 1864, p 2; Hassall, 1879), but this was unaffordable for all but the very affluent classes.Thanks to the ease in using this item it became a popular home medicine in treating respiratory infections without the need for a physician or expensive equipment. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). This required an evolution of device technologies to disperse bulk liquids into aerosol droplets that contained the dissolved (or suspended) drug, or to disperse ultra-fine bulk powders of the drug into inhalable aerosols under mechanical or aerodynamic forces. These 4 or 5-star reviews represent the opinions of the individuals who posted them and do not reflect the views of Etsy.