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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    quently from time to time a slight difficulty in breathing appeared, which has repeated itself often since the middle of April, 1890. From this time on occurred from eight to ten attacks weekly; they were, however, milder than the former ones. On May 2, 1890, the carbonic-acid treatment was resumed. The result was about the same as before. The attacks assumed, even after the first inflation, the character of a passing oppression, and dis- appeared entirely after the nineteenth inflation. After seven more inflations had been given, the treatment was discontinued. Catarrh as well as shortness of breath were much improved. Climbing of stairs was much more easily done than formerly. Five months after the discon- tinuance of the treatment the attacks had not returned. IV. John P , 66 years old, for two years had asthmatic attacks, appearing only during the night and lasting from one to two hours; during a few months they appeared every night, and during the day there was shortness of breath. Very slight emphysema of lungs and few rales were observed. With the beginning of the carbonic-acid treatmentthe attacks be- came shorter and lighter, and with the seven- [103]