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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    branes and all the ulcers in the manner prac- tised by Dr. Thomas. The first night after this procedure the patient slept well, did not suffer from tenesmus, and felt better in every way; but the night following she was, as she and her friends expressed themselves, **as bad as ever.'' I then ordered suppositories of iodo- form ; they brought only temporary relief, and the same was the case with injections of chlo- ral. Almost from the commencement of her sick- ness the patient had been coughing. Physical examination showed slight dulness on percus- sion on the right side, below the axilla, be- tween the third and fifth ribs, and, correspond- ing with this area, there were crackling sounds on inspiration. The patient being very much reduced by constant fever, restlessness, and pain, and presenting this probably metastatic affection of the lung, her case appeared indeed a desperate one. In the forenoon of September 27 I inflated the rectum with carbonic-acid gas, and this one application, which caused no discomfort or tenesmus, was at once followed by a change for the better. There was no fever on that eve- ning and very little tenesmus during the night; [115]