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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    long; the recognition of the merely sympto- matic character of its curative effect on the one hand, and the risk associated with its employment on the other, caused it to be abandoned. Intravenous injections of carbon- ic-acid gas, which have been used repeatedly on animals, can not be taken into consideration and are not qualified to be enumerated as methodical application for therapeutic purposes. In 1834 Mojon, of Genoa, published his experiences with the gas in gynecological prac- tise, recommending carbonic-acid-gas douches in dysmenorrhea, a mode of treatment long before known but at that time forgotten. Dur- ing the fifth decade of the nineteenth century Verneuil, Broca, and Demarquay in France, with Simpson in Scotland, made extensive use of carbonic acid in gynecological practise. Brown-Sequard demonstrated the anestheti- zing effect of the gas on the larynx. He showed that carbonic-acid gas applied to the mucous membrane of the larynx would in- duce anesthesia independently of its absorp- tion by the blood. He experimented on ani- [58]