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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    which was used for dyeing wool. We shall see how this reaction of carbonic acid was in- terpreted by Hoffmann, who lived in the sev- enteenth century. Philostratus, when speak- ing of the sanguinary battle which the Greek army fought with Telephus, on the banks of the river Caicus, states that the wounded Greek soldiers who resorted to Agamemnon's spring, near Smyrna, were all restored. According to Herodotus, a spring in the country of the Ich- thyophagi (fish-eaters) prolonged life to beyond one hundred and twenty years. A spring in Chios caused insanity; another in Magnesia improved the voice of singers; and the spring of Alysson was a specific for hydrophobia. The springs of Lethe and Mnemosyne are often mentioned in classical literature; the former gave oblivion and the latter memory. Little is mentioned of mineral springs in the Old Testament. According to the Genesis, Anah, the father of Esau's wife, discovered some thermal springs in the desert; and in the second book of Kings we find mention made of a spring at Jericho which made the ground [23]