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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    his limbs, was enabled to walk after the fif- teenth bath. One is surprised also to see what powerful effect the gas application has in cases of hysterical paralysis. This author wishes it distinctly understood that what he says of the effect of the baths of Nauheim has no reference to those forms of paralysis which are manifes- tations of organic disease of the brain. Certain chronic neuralgias, such, for instance, as tic douloureux, sciatica, etc., have been successfully treated by means of the gas-bath and douche in cases in which numerous reme- dies had been tried for a long time previously and had failed. All observers are unanimous on this point, especially with regard to sciatica, excluding, however, those cases in which an advanced organic lesion is the cause. According to the literature of the middle of the nineteenth century, gas douches are of service in oculopalpebral inflammation, but the treatment must be modified in the different forms of epipephycitis (barbarously called con- junctivitis)—namely, acute and chronic. In acute epipephycitis the douche is at first to be [62]