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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    could enter. He carefully opened the abdomi- nal wall without injuring the intestine, and was then able to convince himself that, notwith- standing the considerable meteorism, the infla- tion did not extend beyond the ileocecal valve. The diaphragm was not pushed up nor was the liver displaced. All experiments thus far have demonstrated that neither in the living nor in the cadaver can we force gas or liquid up through the ileo- cecal valve so long as the abdominal wall is intact; and even if the wall is opened the entrance into the lumen in question can only be forced when the injection is made in close proximity to the valve, so that from the anus, even while the abdominal wall is wide open, we can not at all, or only imperfectly, fill the ileum. From these facts we can be absolutely certain that the valve not only prevents regur- gitation, but that there must exist other me- chanical conditions causing the closure to be of great firmness. Among these factors are mentioned by Rosenbach, and by others before him, the physical and physiological behavior of [82]