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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    cases in which the patients thus benefited and apparently on the way to perfect recovery died at an earlier or later period from an intercur- rent disease. Cases of the latter kind were also reported in Demarquay's time from Eng- land. There appeared many publications on this subject in France, including one by Ro- zier, in 1776; Lalouette's report appeared in 1778. Among the channels by which carbonic acid was introduced into the system was respiration. In former times carbonic-acid-gas inhalations of a specified degree were a well-known and extensively employed therapeutic measure. From the observation that the fumes of freshly plowed earth did good service to consumptives —as the belief was—the conclusion was arrived at that the carbonic acid of these fumes was the essential agent. Physicians went so far as to order patients to be covered with earth; they recommended them to stay in the cow- shed and even to sleep there. This treatment was widely accepted and became very popular. In almost all European countries there exist [56]