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.

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    sion we have to discontinue the introduction. It will be well to inflate the rectum empty in order to avoid obstruction of the tube by fecal masses. The presence of the latter, however, so long as they do not directly obstruct the lu- men of the nozzle, is no hindrance; the gas passes alongside them while the intestine is stretching. The amount of the gas entering the intestine may be judged from the size and the number of bubbles which are seen in the water of the bottle spoken of, or may be calcu- lated exactly by means of a manometer which can easily be inserted. For practical purposes, however, it is of no importance to know the exact amount. Rosenbach has given a very thorough and exact description of the behavior of the intesti- nal tract when inflated with carbonic-acid gas, and his observations are of great value for diag- nostic purposes; it does not, however, come within the scope of this treatise to enter into all the details of this useful investigation, since the results obtained are by no means character- istic of carbonic-acid-gas introduction, but may [79]