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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    water, and finally tartaric acid. Having the large intestine inflated, he found he was enabled to diagnosticate situs inversus viscerum, to demonstrate an acquired pathological position of the colon. He recommends this method for the purpose of ascertaining the relative posi- tion of the large intestine to a floating kidney and to ovarian and other abdominal tumors. By means of such inflation he discovered com- munication between the colon and stomach and between the small intestine and stomach. It also enabled him to study the relations of a fistula of the cecum, extending through the abdominal wall, and of a carcinomatous ves- ico-rectal fistula. Inflation was most of all serviceable in cases of stricture of the large intestine. In several such cases the exact location of the stricture could be ascertained, the surgeon being guided to the very point where to enter upon the gut. V. Ziemssen used a solution of from lo to 12 gm. of bicarbonate of soda and somewhat less tartaric acid to expand the large intestine. He found the method of inflation preferable to [75]