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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    discontinued. There were, however, symptoms of a dry bronchitis, but eight weeks later no new attack had appeared. X. Mrs. A , 50 years old, for four years had been subject to asthmatic attacks, which afterward came on more and more frequently. During four weeks there had been daily attacks of from three to four hours' duration, occurring mostly during the night, seldom during the day. Status prcesens: Emphysema pulmonum with numerous sibilant rales. In the sputum were many spirals and crystals. During the first four days of carbonic-acid treatment there was little change, but after the fifth day the attacks disappeared. After two more inflations the pa- tient declared herself cured, and stayed away from treatment. The cough had decidedly improved, rales were considerably reduced, and the patient remained perfectly free from attacks during the following eight weeks; then they reappeared, but less frequently and in lighter form. In the cases enumerated the effect of the carbonic acid was noticeable after various lengths of time; the chances of cure were bet- ter the shorter the time the evil under treat- [107]