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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    for on percussion over this organ the dulness remains about as before, there is no rising of the diaphragm, and consequently no retraction of the lungs, and no dyspnea is observed. All that may be noticed is a very slight accelera- tion of respiration and pulse, as will be men- tioned presently. There is no cyanosis. The subjective symptoms of patients or persons ex- perimented on are due to the disagreeable ten- sion of the abdominal walls and the difficulty of expiration caused thereby, but even this unpleasantness disappears more and more as the patient becomes accustomed to inflation. Rosenbach's experiments confirm the well- known fact that we can not, by way of the rectum, inflate the small intestine; especially conclusive in this respect are his experiments on the cadaver. The inflation can not be carried out beyond a certain limit, which limit corresponds exactly to that noticed in the liv- ing. In attempting to force introduction beyond this limit he did not succeed; the gas would escape through the anus or it would encounter such strong resistance that no more 6 [8i]