Carbonic acid in medicine / by Achilles Rose, M.D. ; with the portraits of van Helmont, Priestley and Lavoisier.

  • Achilles Rose
Date:
1905
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Credit: Carbonic acid in medicine / by Achilles Rose, M.D. ; with the portraits of van Helmont, Priestley and Lavoisier. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    the celerity of its escape. From this bottle it enters into an elastic tube terminating in a nozzle for the rectum. The nozzle having been inserted into the rectum, the stop-cock is opened to so limited an extent that we are ena- bled to count the gas-bubbles passing through the water. In a few seconds after the gas enters the rectum there is produced a sensation of warmth in the anus, then a slight desire to stool is felt for a moment, but soon passes away. In pa- tients who avoid pressure, control the levator, there is no voiding of gas, the muscular closure sufficing to retain it; in some cases it is advis- able to secure closure by means of a rubber valve fastened to the rectal tube, which valve is pressed against the anal opening. If even this means should fail securely to close the opening, we may simply increase the amount of gas that enters by opening the stop-cock some- what wider, when a satisfactory filling up of the intestine takes place. We soon notice now that the abdomen gradually becomes expanded, and when the patient begins to complain of ten- [78]