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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    The patients treated by Ephraim were suf- freing from chloriasis, phthisis, and asthma. There could have been no objection to more frequent application of the gas than one or two inflations per diem, but for his complicated and cumbersome method. These cases treated and described by him were as mentioned: I. Chloriasis (incorrectly called chlorosis).— Eleven girls, varying in age from sixteen to twenty years. The circumstances surrounding them were most unfavorable in regard to health. All these patients belonged to the poorer classes. They were obliged to earn their liv- ing by working in factories. Their fare was consequently a very poor one. In order to secure the results of the carbonic-acid treat- ment pure and simple, nothing was altered in regard to their occupation and mode of living while under treatment. The cases selected were all of a severe form of chloriasis, and, ex- cept in one instance, were all of long standing and had been under treatment, some having been treated by Ephraim himself. One of these cases was not benefited by the 7 [97]