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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    Breslau and Vogel published in 1858, in the Wiener medicinische Wockenschrifty a number of important experiments which they had made on pregnant rabbits. They inflated the va- gina with carbonic-acid gas without producing thereby any toxic effect; no harm was done to the life of either rabbit or fetus. These inves- tigators came to the conclusion that vaginal douches of the gas were entirely harmless in case of pregnancy, and that they endangered neither the life of the mother nor the life of the child. My own experience furnishes addi- tional evidence. Diruef, whose remarks are given in Demar- quay's book, Essai de pneumatologie medi- cale,'' Paris, 1866, as not having been published previously, says: The baths of carbonic-acid gas which are given at different watering-places in Germany are known to have a very great effect in the treatment of such affections of the locomotor apparatus and the nervous system as resist ordinary therapeutic measures. Chronic rheumatism and gout, before the establishment of permanent anatomical changes, are affections [60]