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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    ward came a mild attack lasting three hours. Again seven inflations of carbonic-acid gas were made. During this renewed treatment slight oppressions reappeared from time to time, when treatment was again discontinued. From this time on patient had no attack during seven months and a half, when again a spell of the former intensity and of two days' duration oc- curred. VIII. Anna W , 22 years old, had suf- fered for one year every night from light and short attacks of difficult breathing. After the second inflation they ceased. The patient had received only four inflations when for external reasons she did not present herself any more for treatment. IX. Bianca J , 23 years old, had suffered f9r one and a quarter years from difficulty of breathing, which made itself noticeable during fast walking and climbing of stairs, and was more marked in the evening. For the previous twelve days every evening an asthmatic attack came on, lasting one or more hours. There was slight emphysema. Auscultation, except during attack, revealed nothing abnormal. Aft- er the second inflation there were no more at- tacks ; with the seventh inflation treatment was [106]