Tune in to Best Medicine on BBC Radio 4, 6.30pm, 14 November 2023 (or listen later at BBC Sounds and all podcast platforms). Hosted by Kiri Pritchard-McLean, it’s an entertaining panel show that looks at the strange, the amusing and the uplifting sides of medicine, past and present.
I talk about some inhalation inventions that helped (or otherwise) our ancestors to breathe more easily.
Read more about the Asthma Cigarettes and Ammoniaphone that I mention on the episode.
And for some bonus inhalation content, try Dr Nathan Tucker’s cocaine inhaler and the Kilacold Bomb.
I hope you enjoy the show, and if you would like to receive my weekly newsletter about the history of medicine, sign up at thequackdoctor.substack.com.
