July 10th 2004
Inhalatorium acquired a Dr Alabone’s inhaler, which is described in his 1912 book.
June 26th 2004
Art corner - to add a little culture to the matter Inhalatorium is featuring inhalers in art - the first two examples are a 1937 lithograph by Eric Ravilious entitled Pharmaceutical Chemist and a picture showing what is considered to be the earliest medicinal use of tobacco. If you know of other works of art that feature inhalers please let me know.
An ornate German porcelain steam inhaler joins the collection and a large bronchial kettle understood to date from 1860 has been added. A new item of historical curiosity, an inhaler from the Arica culture of Northern Chile, from about 1500 a.d. Also added Rexall’s asthmatic powder - another stramonium product.
June 20th 2004
Art meets science! The newly-added Inhalvase is a fine French example of this. The inhaler doubles as a vase. No doubt strongly fragrant flowers would have been necessary to mask the balsam smells of inhalants
For some time Crumb’s inhaler has sat on the ‘Do you know?’ page - now it has moved onto a page of its own as further information has become available.
June 4th 2004
In 1798 a description of Dr Withering’s inhaler was published in the Annals of Medicine. The illustration is very crude but the article tells us how it worked. Withering also describes difficulties encountered with the Mudge inhaler that had been first described twenty years earlier. Interestingly, Withering attributes Mudge with the first use of the term ‘inhaler’.
A very politically incorrect advert for Compound Oxygen appeared in 1891 and has been added.
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