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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    directed upon the eyelids, because its direct application would cause pain and increase in- flammation. The gas is to be applied until the eyelids redden; improvement is seen to follow even in the most acute stage. The action is prompt; photophobia, dacryorrhea, lagophthal- mus, and the swelling of the eyelids disappear; these douches, therefore, offer, according to these reports, a valuable aid in the treatment of chronic epipephycitis. The gas-douche is also praised in the treatment of more profound in- flammation—namely, in keratitis, even when ulceration has developed. It is said that in vascular, superficial, and even interstitial kera- titis, relief follows generally after the first ap- plications of the gas. Much more is found in the literature of our ancestors on the treatment of keratitis by means of the gas-douches, but this treatment has been abandoned, whether justly or unjustly is for ophthalmologists to decide. Unjust it is not to mention it any more in the text-books. Demarquay speaks further enthusiastically on the treatment of amaurosis by means of car- [63]