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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    small quantities of warm water at varying inter- vals, while the patient occupied a recumbent position. I did this, as I had often found it successful in relieving tenesmus. None of the drugs employed, such as calomel cum opio, oleum ricini cum opio, tannin, bismuth, and plumbum aceticum, had any marked or lasting effect. The patient remained feverish and suffered greatly almost every night from fre- quent tenesmus, discharging blood and pus, sometimes with fecal matter resembling masses of blue clay. The little relief she obtained was more from ice or iced cloths to the abdo- men than from any of the other means em- ployed. On September 19 Dr. Alfred Bessard anes- thetized the patient, and I proceeded to make a thorough examination of the rectum in the way described by Dr. J. Gaillard Thomas. The mucous membrane, as far as it presented itself to view, was swollen, of a dark red color, and studded with deep ulcers, thickly covered with pus. After having cleansed the rectum with water from a Davidson's syringe, I wrapped a piece of wet cotton around the end of a rod, having dipped the cotton in pure nitric acid, and lightly touched the swollen mucous mem- [4]