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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    strong. Afterward, especially on account of the facility with which it is absorbed by the mucous membrane of the bladder, it produces analgesia in this organ. Demarquay gives a description of the differ- ent modes of application. As the best method he recommends that a rubber bladder, of the capacity of from thirty to forty centiliters, be filled with the gas, which is introduced from the rubber bag into the bladder by means of an ordinary catheter attached to the bag. Mon- dollot, in order to fill the bladder with car- bonic-acid gas, employed a double-current catheter. If such an instrument is employed, care has to be taken that the gas may enter slowly, while the hypogastric region is closely observed in order to guard against excessive inflation. Such an accident may happen when one of the eyes of the catheter becomes ob- structed by mucus; and, indeed, this accident did happen in Demarquay's own practise in a case of cystitis. The patient suddenly uttered a piercing cry and said that his bladder had burst, and such was found to be the case. [66]