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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    In the mean time he had had no recurrence of the attacks. VI. Elizabeth P , 25 years old, had pro- nounced sclerosis. She had often suffered from cough; the least exertion, climbing of stairs, etc., brought on dypsnea. For five weeks bronchial catarrh and severe asthmatic attacks occurred every night. These latter ceased after the fifth inflation, and the patient slept every night uninterruptedly until morn- ing from this time on. Eventually the catarrh disappeared. The patient was dismissed after having had the thirteenth inflation; the bronchi were entirely free. One year later the attacks had not returned. VII. Clara W , 14 years of age, had suf- fered since her eighth year from attacks of diffi- culty of breathing, which at first appeared at intervals of several months, but for a few years had appeared at intervals of from three to four weeks; they lasted from two to three days, and ended with abundant expectoration. The pa- tient came under treatment fourteen days after such an attack. She received twenty-five inflations. During this treatment patient had still, once in a while, a slight oppression with cough, but no real attack. Six weeks after- [105]