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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    In Paris there were also cases published by the Royal Society of Medicine, proving suffi- ciently the efficacy of the remedy. This soci- ety established a commission to investigate the subject; Lalouette was elected chairman. This commission confirmed that carbonic acid, altho it did not cure cancer, would relieve pain and act on open ulcers in a beneficial way by modi- fying the secretion and cause, to a certain ex- tent, cicatrization. In the year 1776 Abbe Magellan reported a case of very extensive ulcerating cancer, which under the influence of carbonic acid had become reduced to one-quarter of its former size. At a later period Demarquay, who has written the history of carbonic-acid treatment, reported from his practise analogous cases in which long-continued carbonic-acid-gas douches ame- liorated the condition of cancerous ulcers, re- lieving pain and arresting the progress of the disease to such an extent that the patients gained in strength and courage, that their gen- eral health became comparatively very good; but all this was only temporary. He had also [55]