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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    resting, and the treatment was discontinued. During the next six weeks the patient remained free from attacks and from shortness of breath, but then the symptoms reappeared. II. Josefa S , 37 years of age, had suf- fered for a year from slight attacks of bronchial asthma, which lately made their appearance at intervals of from two to three days and lasted a few minutes. Percussion sound over the lungs was normal, and within normal bounda- ries there were numerous sibilant rales. In the sputum spirals and asthma crystals were in large numbers. After the first inflation came one more attack, but none afterward. At the same time cough and expectoration became less and rales were scarcer. The patient now climbs two flights of stairs in succession, while formerly she could not climb more than one without taking rest. The treatment was dis- continued after the eleventh inflation. No further observation was made. III. Clara E , 21 years old, for nine years had suffered from cough, and occasionally appeared dyspnea. In the last few years the latter came on more frequently, and during the last two years almost every night. After August 10, 1889, the attacks were very severe [lOl]