31st December 2004
Two new additions; the Duo-haler, a nasal inhaler, and a combustible powder known as Haywood’s.
12th December 2004
An original Westminster inhaler has been added, click the link to compare the original with the modern replica.
Inhalatorium is grateful to Bob Sokol for the use of his picture of the Ammoniaphone, which complements the advert also shown here.
Inhalatorium is also indebted to Lon Stanley for the photos of ‘the Inhalatorium’. It was a box, similar to a telephone cabin, in which the patient would sit while vapours from a nearby stove were pumped in. Therapy or torture!
29th November 2004
A ceramic Savars inhaler, similar to a small Dr Nelson inhaler, has been added.
14th November 2004
The image of the Saunders inhaler has been updated to show the correct mouthpiece. A picture of the 1940’s German-made Brosig’s asthma cigarettes is now included. A ceramic Nelson’s inhaler with a ceramic mouthpiece has also been added.
25th October 2004
In 1767 Philip Stern wrote a pamphlet entitled Medical Advice to the Consumptive and asthmatic people of England. Pictured in the pamphlet is Stern’s vessel (the word inhaler was first used by John Mudge in 1778) for delivering his secret recipe of balsamic substances. This is believed to be the first published picture of an inhaler.
In 1936 The London Inhalatorium published a handbook of Medicated Inhalation Therapy describing the administration of many different inhalants that could be nebulised through the Apneu Inhaling apparatus (Spiess Drager). Among the inhalants; adrenalin (prepared in a number of different ways), camphor, eucalyptus, turpentine, menthol, phenol and insulin.