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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    he took for voices or actions of different spirits —he assumed that there was a special spiritual regent in man, whom he called Archeus, as Par- acelsus already had taught. By Archeus he understood the involuntary functions in man, among them digestion. The Archeus, he be- lieved, had his abode in the stomach. Thera- peutically it was his aim to influence Archeus, either to calm or to animate him, as the case might be. Notwithstanding these views, he has done a great deal to establish chemical principles in the preparation of medicines, a great deal to unite chemistry with medicine, a work which had been begun by Paracelsus. Robert Boyle (1627-1691) confirmed the dis- coveries of Paracelsus and van Helmont and showed how to separate and how to handle gases, but he was not aware yet that carbonic acid and hydrogen were essentially different. Friedrich Hoffmann (1660-1742), who was in correspondence with Robert Boyle, discov- ered some qualities of the gas contained in mineral springs, and called it spiritus minera- lis. Observing that when in watery solution it [31]