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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    Such an accident can now be avoided, since we are enabled to measure exactly the amount of gas we wish to introduce and to regulate the current likewise with absolute certainty. If, instead of the carbonic-acid gas, atmos- pheric air had been injected,'' rays Demarquay, ** I should have felt alarmed; but, knowing with what great facility the mucous and serous membranes absorb this gas, and knowing how harmless it is when brought in contact with the tissues, I felt almost reassured in regard to the consequences of this gas infiltration. In fact, tho the patient suffered some pain, probably caused by the rupture of the bladder, the gas became gradually absorbed, and after two hours it seemed to have disappeared com- pletely. Topical application of carbonic-acid gas in the shape of baths or douches has been tried quite extensively by balneologists of a former period, but a rational base for this kind of bal- neotherapy they have not given; in the litera- ture of their time we fail to find specified rules based on exactly controlled observations. All [67]