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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    that the course of the cancer is arrested by the employment of fixed air, but it is to be feared that not a single cure can be obtained by this means. Nevertheless, a palliative in such a frightful and hopeless disease should be consid- ered as a precious acquisition. Dobson, who likewise tried carbonic acid in case of cancer, came to the same conclusions. He could never report that the application of fixed air had produced a sensible effect toward cure, but found that the pain had successfully been combated. In non-malignant old ulcers of ba(L<i^t^i5tioA'^ tl^^^^^^^ produced excellent resuLt!sO^ The^'jJ^frtr^as ^:^|Ways; relieved, the appearancf^ .Jpl itd^hSdjihd nmrkedly improved, and \n somej;a§^,»a-completjfc cure ensued. TheS^Ml^gsic ^^^^pi<?atricizing effects of fixed air wer5^tfeady well esl|iblished when Beddoes learned, from the Dutch physician and chemist, John Ingenhousz, that carbonic acid had the remarkable property of quieting almost instantly even very severe pain, such, for instance, as is produced by vesication. The experiment of Ingenhousz was the following: [50]