The report made to the National Institute of France, in the month of December, 1799, by citizens Portal, Pelletan, Fourcroy, Chaptal, and Vauquelin, respecting the artificial mineral waters prepared at Paris by Nicholas Paul, & Co. : with extracts from the reports of the Society of Physicians of Paris, and the Faculty of Geneva; and other testimonies in favour of the same waters : to which are added, some notes and observations, by N. Paul.

  • Portal, Antoine, 1742-1832.
Date:
1802
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Credit: The report made to the National Institute of France, in the month of December, 1799, by citizens Portal, Pelletan, Fourcroy, Chaptal, and Vauquelin, respecting the artificial mineral waters prepared at Paris by Nicholas Paul, & Co. : with extracts from the reports of the Society of Physicians of Paris, and the Faculty of Geneva; and other testimonies in favour of the same waters : to which are added, some notes and observations, by N. Paul. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( 3° ) however, tnat this remedy feldom produces fucli an effeft j and, on the other hand, I have fome- times fuccefsfully ufed the hydrogenated-waters to allay this fymptom. “ However, neither the hydrogenated waters, nor the carbonated, nor even the hydro-fulphu- reous, have hitherto appeared to me efficacious remedies in thofe cafes, in which they have been ufed. The oxygenated waters alone have com- pletely anfwered the hopes we had conceived of them, and that to fuch a degree, that M. Paul has already difpofed of a confiderable quantity of thefe waters. They are contained in bottles of the capacity of about one pint, which, by the means of compreffion, invented by this ingenious mechanic, are impregnated with half their vo- lume of pure oxygen gas. Patients take one or two of thefe bottles in the day. I confider this remedy as a valuable acquifition, that will, no doubt, prove permanent in praftice. ] am far however from thinking, that we have yet any clear notion of the manner in which it operates. Does the oxygen actually pafs into the chyle, and from hence into the blood. ? Or does it aft merely on theflomach, and the inteflines ? Its effefts appear fo quick, that I fhould be rather inclined to adopt the latter opinion. In this point of view, there would be but a very diftant connection between this mode of administering oxygen, and the oxy- genation of the blood by the lungs. But fuch is the