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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    in which the application of carbonic-acid gas produces the most satisfactory results. There are even patients in this category whose skin does not support any kind of water-bathing, but only dry gas. Rotureau (Etudes sur les eaux de Nau- heim/' 1856) says: The carbonic-acid-gas baths have been successfully employed, espe- cially in rheumatic affections. The most severe of rheumatic affections is perhaps paralysis; the gas treatment has a most powerful effect on this manifestation of rheumatism. Of all forms of paralysis, paraplegia is the one quick- est to vanish under this treatment and to attain the most complete cure. Paralytics who come to Nauheim, with the lower extremities more or less deprived of mobility, are subjected to the dry-gas treatment. Even when the pa- ralysis is complete, the mobility returns gradu- ally from day to day in a most remarkable manner, so that the effect of each bath can be noticed. There are cases in which the baths have been so effective that a rheumatic patient, who for whole years had not been able to use [61]