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.

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    elastic aeriform fluids, in order to distinguish them from atmospheric air. He paid much attention to the study of gases, and showed that they entered into the composition of the atmos- pheric air. He first gave a description of car- bonic acid, which he called gas Sylvester, and described its development, when the acid is brought into contact with limestone or potash, at wine and beer fermentation, during putrefac- tion, its appearance in the stomach, and showed that it was contained in the mineral water of Spa, that it was rising from the ground in some places, for instance, at the dogs' grotto near Naples. However, his distinction of the dif- ferent kinds of gases was still imperfect; he knew no means to handle the different gases he had developed. Under the name of gas Syl- vester, which he sometimes designates by the term gas carbonicum, he understood principally carbonic acid. Jan Baptist van Helmont, a Brabant noble- man, was born at Brussels in the year 1577. In Louvain he attended the ordinary philosophi- cal course until his seventeenth year, then stud- [27]