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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    a powerful and effective stimulant for the en- feebled heart. He was the first who had the courage to place dyspnoic patients suffering from uncompensated valvular disease in the bath. He also tried the effect of these baths in other morbid conditions, as in arthritis and nervous diseases. Schott and Groedl contin- ued to work on this basis which had been laid down by Beneke. The brothers Schott have established a system of their own of physical therapeutics for disorders of the circulation, in which carbonic acid plays a role. While this form of making use of the benefi- cial effects of carbonic-acid gas has become so popular with the medical profession, very little is known, or rather, as the foregoing historical sketch demonstrates, a great deal has been for- gotten, about the external application of car- bonic-acid gas in dry form. The external application of dry carbonic-acid gas, considered in Franzensbad as an extraordi- narily valuable therapeutical agent, is the prod- uct of the mineral springs there, which contain this gas in astonishingly large amount. At [69]