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

  • Rose, Achilles, 1839-1916.
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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    PREFACE Among the transactions of the Congress of Balneologists which met in Berlin from March 9 to March 13, 1905, perhaps the most impor- tant were the papers read by Homberger and Fellner on the effect of carbonic-acid baths. These two papers are certainly the best which have been written on the physiological action of carbonic acid externally applied. They present investigations of Winternitz, Fellner, Homber- ger, and others, which furnish a scientific basis for a number of facts, thus far only empirical. These publications, of which I have availed myself, reached me just in time before I placed the manuscript of this book in the hands of the typographer. The history of carbonic acid in medicine is very little known. At least, text-books hardly speak of it. The material for the historical sketch here given I found in great part in French and German books not translated into English. Among these was Lavoisier, Me- [ iii ]