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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    the pain had entirely disappeared. There was no odor any more and the wound soon began to cicatrize. After two and a half months only a fistulous opening remained, and this also closed finally. Shortly after the publication of this case a report was spread and appeared in print that the patient had died. Contradicting this statement, Ingenhousz wrote to Beddoes, Octo- ber 12, 179s, the following letter: On my return to Bath I saw the first pa- tient, whose cancerous ulcer of the breast had healed, but had reopened again after carbonic- acid application had been discontinued. How- ever, the ulcer has a less hideous appearance and pain is controlled by carbonic-acid applica- tions. I believe it will heal again under re- newed gas application, because there is always amelioration of the symptoms when gas is administered. About ten months later, on August 26y 1796, Ewart himself wrote to Beddoes to inform him that the woman, the subject of the first obser- vation, was still alive, but that the receded ulcer had not cicatrized as the primary one had [52]