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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    done, notwithstanding the constant application of carbonic acid. The only result obtained, and this was a permanent one, was the entire absence of pain and odor. There was no com- plete cure in this case, only temporary cicatri- zation. As to the second case, which resembled the first very much and in which also carbonic-acid treatment had relieved pain and arrested the invading course of the ulcer, the patient died from intercurrent pulmonary disease. Some years after the publication of Perci- val's observations and experiences (May, 1772), French physicians began to employ carbonic acid in the treatment of cancerous ulcers, and Ewart's two cases (1794) were much quoted. Follin claimed priority in introducing into France the gas as a therapeutic measure. He writes: I have tried on some patients a new method of local anesthesia, which has never been practised in France before, and which consists in exposing ulcerated and painful sur- faces to a continuous current of carbonic-acid gas. But such priority is not accorded to [53]