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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    him by Demarquay, who wrote that the method had been practised in France twenty-four years prior to Follin's claim. The results obtained in England by Percival, Hey, Warren, and others were too important not to be considered by some French practi- tioners, and indeed everywhere in France ex- periments with carbonic acid were made to ver- ify what had been learned from the experience of English physicians and what Priestley espe- cially had popularized. Carbonic-acid treatment became popular in France; it was foremost at the Academy of Sciences and Art of Dijon, where great scien- tific activity was developed and where facts were established showing the beneficial effect of the gas on all kind of ulcers and other affec- tions. J. L. Targioni, of Florence, reported to this academy the details of a case of cancer of the mamma treated by fixed air. The gas had relieved the pain, corrected the bad character of the suppuration, and improved the general condition of the patient. About one-half the cancerous ulcer had become cicatrized. [54]