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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    agree in this, that improvement of the symp- toms is noticed in a wonderfully short time. Cornil and others explained this fact by saying that, if the improvement were due to destruc- tion of the bacilli, one would suppose that the morbid symptoms would disappear only gradu- ally. Ephraim has treated patients with carbonic- acid-gas inflations of the rectum. Bergeon made use of this method in the treatment of whooping-cough. Demme, of Philadelphia, has successfully employed the carbonic-acid- gas douche in a case of puerperal eclampsia. [73]