Did You Know?

 Until the twentieth century, doctors often prescribed the smoking of pipes or cigarettes for asthma patients. Believing it was one of the ways of introducing medications directly into the patient's bronchial tubes and lungs, nitrate powders, cubeb, and plant-derived stramonium were mixed with the tobacco. This practice continued until the late 1800's when experimenters discovered that steam was a means to deliver medications directly to the lungs.

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