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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    naturally enough, increased under bodily exer- tion. In all three cases relief was secured after a comparatively small number of inflations (seven, nine, and eleven respectively), the dyspnea improved considerably, the catarrhal symptoms disappeared completely in two cases, and in one almost completely. The volume of the lungs, however, underwent no alteration. Resume: The results of the carbonic-acid-gas treatment of asthma are shown in improve- ment of shortness of breathing and of the bron- chial asthmatic attacks, which improvement sometimes lasts for a certain period, while at others it is permanent. It is to be mentioned again that in all these cases only a limited number of inflations were given. Ephraim observed in some cases that nightly attacks would be prevented when infla- tions were made during the afternoon, but would come on when the inflations were given during the forenoon. My own experience in treating asthma by means of carbonic-acid-gas inflation of the rec- [109]