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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    we can learn from them is that the gas exerts certain decided effects. These effects are described as follows: When the patient is in the bath the pulse at first increases, but after half an hour's stay in the gas-bath this frequency becomes reduced. The gas produces a sensation of warmth to the skin, prickling and redness, especially at those parts which are most richly supplied with nerves—for instance, the scrotum; and in not a few patients perspiration follows. Micturi- tion becomes increased in frequency and in the quantity of urine voided; there has been no- ticed an increased amount of urea in the urine. In women continued bathing has increased the amount of menstrual flow. The patient feels for hours after the bath cheerfully animated and freer in all his movements. The physicians of Nauheim were the first to give a scientific description of the influence of carbonic - acid - water baths in different noso- logical conditions, especially in disorders of circulation. Beneke has demonstrated that the water-bath saturated with carbonic-acid gas is [68]