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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    blood, and that this is the main factor in the curative effects thus far observed. Ephraim administered carbonic-acid gas by the rectum, the cases being exclusively those of outdoor patients, and he gave, as a rule, one, and in exceptional cases on account of special circumstances two, sittings daily. He em- ployed the liquefied gas in the following man- ner : The carbonic-acid gas was taken from an iron balloon in which it was contained in the liquefied form; a double stop-cock was at- tached to regulate exactly the flow of the gas from the balloon in which it was, naturally enough, under high pressure. The carbonic acid, on escaping from the balloon, at once as- sumed the gaseous form. From the balloon it passed first into a bottle filled with water. This contrivance to have the gas pass through water was for the purpose of enabling us to observe and to control the celerity of its escape.* From this bottle it entered into an elastic tube terminating in a nozzle for the rectum. The nozzle having been inserted into the rectum, the stop-cock was opened to so limited an extent [95]