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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    asphyxia. It appears that in both instances the phenomena under consideration depend cer- tainly on poisoning by carbonic acid. The fact of the transfusion adds a new element to the question. It is not unlikely to cause the carbonic acid to penetrate into the blood in the form of a gaseous injection or by process of transfusion, and, since Brown-Sequard has stated that even in performing transfusion serious accidents will happen only when a certain quantity of blood is introduced rapidly, he admits, the phenomena apparently toxic which he has observed, are in a great measure to be attributed to the mode of operation. The whole mass of gas introduced into the blood is carried to the lungs. From the lungs it is eliminated in a manner corresponding to the elimination of carbonic acid under normal conditions. The route which the carbonic acid pursues through the system is decided by the peculiarity of traveling in the direction in which it meets the least tension. On this law depends likewise its transmission from the tis- sues into the blood, as also its normal evapora- [89]