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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    that of pouring in water for the purpose of ren- dering passable stenoses and strictures of the colon. He most emphatically advocates sudden ex- pansion by means of carbonic acid to reduce abnormal positions, strangulations, intussuscep- tions, and twistings of the colon, as they are caused by perityphlitis, pericolitis, or periproc- titis. Thus V. Ziemssen employed carbonic- acid gas as a mechanical agent. Rosenbach has published a series of experi- ments made on the living, and also the results of experiments on the cadaver, by inflating the large intestine with liquefied carbonic acid. The selection of liquefied carbonic acid in place of the effervescent mixture offers a number of advantages: i. It allows an exact dosage. 2. The introduction of the gas is absolutely uni- form and constant. 3. The inflation may be interrupted at any desired moment and be con- tinued again at will, so that much larger quan- ' titles of gas may be introduced. 4. There is no liquid applied together with the gas.. 5. The pressure under which the gas enters is a [76]