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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    Helmont etoit un mechant pendard flamand, qui est mort enrage depuis quelques mois. II n'a jamais rien fait qui vaille. J*ai vu tout ce qu'il a fait. Cet homme ne meditoit qu*une medicine toute de secrets chimiques et empi- riques, et pour la renverser plus vite, il Tinscri- voit fort contre la saignee, faute de laquelle pourtant il est mort frenetique.*' van Helmont was an exact observer, which shows itself in other works of his not concern- ing the gases. What characterizes him espe- cially as representative of the era in which he lived, is the application he made of his chemi- cal knowledge to physiology, pathology, and therapy. He directed his attention to chemical properties in the human system, showed that the most important functions of the body were in relation to the acid or alkaline con- dition of its fluids and to processes of fermen- tation. van Helmont, however, did not consider di- gestion an exclusively chemical process. In- clined to spiritualism — many phenomena in nature, as thunder, earthquake, rainbow, etc., [30]