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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    CHAPTER III INFLATION OF THE LARGE INTES- TINE WITH CARBONIC-ACLD GAS FOR DIAGNOSTIC PURPOSES H. V. ZiEMSSEN, in the year 1883, was the first to describe and publish experiments to establish the value for diagnostic purposes of artificial inflation of the large intestines. It may be admitted, however, that other investi- gators, those of the Berlin Medical Clinic, for instance, and other places, made experiments in the same direction, employing various methods, and were, as well as v. Ziemssen, aware of the significance of this diagnostic aid. All that V. Ziemssen has said of the utility of carbonic-acid-gas inflation for diagnostic purposes may be said of inflation with air, pure and simple. His method is to develop the gas within the intestine, by introducing through a rectal tube, first bicarbonate of soda, then [74]