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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    jected. Some of them issue from the earth with rumbling, gurgling, or hissing noises; others do so only at regular intervals, and rise to a height of from twenty to forty feet; some ascend from the bottom of the sea, of lakes, and of rivers; others appear many thousand feet above the level of the ocean; some break at a boiling heat through a crust of ice and snow; others issue with icy coldness near shrubs and flowers; some destroy vegetation in their immediate neighborhood, while others penetrate and cover organic structures with cal- careous incrustations and preserve them. Such phenomena were replete with wonder and attracted the attention of philosophers from an early period. Supernatural properties were ascribed to the springs. Strange theories were propounded regarding their origin, and wonderful tales and fables were current of their curative powers. Strabo relates that the springs of Hierapolis imparted a red color to the roots of trees and shrubs, and that the juices of the latter, when mixed with the water, produced a purple liquor [22]