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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    ers at one time, and also separate bath-tubs. The common baths are two wide, basin-shaped recesses with steps all around the walls, and benches to be occupied by the bathers. The single bathtubs are about one meter deep, also with benches of graduated height. In the bathtubs, as well as in the common bath- basins, the bathers remain zuith tJieir clothes on, the gas at once penetrating the clothing and acting on the skin. From the more recent history of the employ- ment of the gas for medical purposes, we learn that Ziemssen, in the year 1883, publish'ed ex- periments to establish the value for diagnostic purposes of artificial inflation of the large intes- tine with carbonic-acid gas. The introduction of carbonic-acid gas into the circulation by way of the rectum is an idea of recent date; at least, in older literature there are Only a few notes here and there to suggest that this form of application had been thought of. The earliest recommendation of carbonic- acid-gas douche into the rectum I found in a materia medica published in the year 1863. [71]