Perhaps you’ve heard of carbon dioxide before, but probably not in any positive terms. Carbon dioxide emissions are painted as the major culprit behind global warming. And the levels of carbon dioxide, also called greenhouse gas, in the atmosphere have indeed increased. Since the measurements started in 1958 at Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, the …
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CHAPTER XII – MISCELLANEOUS W. Duffield Robinson attended to a large number of patients suffering from purpura (red or purple discolored spots on the skin caused by bleeding underneath the skin). The majority were prisoners who had been subjected to abstinence from meat for a long time. He noticed in the case in which he …
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CHAPTER XI – CARBON DIOXIDE GAS APPLICATION IN RHINITIS John Kanold, in the year 1708, wrote: “It is to be hoped that at this time no one who has common sense will deny that the historia morborum is the most important and most valued support of the whole of medicine, because, by thorough knowledge of …
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CHAPTER IX – RECTAL FISTULA PROMPTLY, COMPLETELY, AND PERMANENTLY CURED BY MEANS OF CARBON DIOXIDE APPLICATION In January 1903, I published in the New York Medical Journal my first case of successful treatment of rectal fistula by means of carbon dioxide gas application: CASE I. I. A, 34 years of age. Dancing master. Married; father …
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CHAPTER VIII – ON THE EFFECTS OF CARBON DIOXIDE BATHS ON THE CIRCULATION On taking a bath, the temperature of which is below that of the skin, there will be a sensation of cold, regardless of whether such bath is taken in the river, the sea, the ordinary bathtub, or in the shape of a …
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CHAPTER V – CARBON DIOXIDE GAS IN THE TREATMENT OF DYSENTERY AND MEMBRANOUS ENTERITIS AND COLIC Carbon dioxide gas, besides stimulating capillary circulation, has an anesthetizing influence, and this is especially remarkable when the gas is applied to painful ulcers—cancerous, for instance; and it was well made use of in gynecologic practise. There exists a …
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CHAPTER III – INFLATION OF THE LARGE INTESTINE WITH CARBON DIOXIDE 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 investigators, those of the …
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Carbon Dioxide in Medicine was published already in 1905. At the time of publishing, Dr. Achilles Rose and his colleagues had already given carbon dioxide to their patients for more than 20 years. The book is a fascinating read and a great testimony to the success of carbon dioxide treatments. PREFACE Among the transactions of …
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CHAPTER 10 – REFERENCES Baker, D.M. (1934): Sighing respiration as a symptom, Lancet I (174) Barker, L.F. and Sprunt, T.P. (1922): A spontaneous attack of tetany during a paroxysm of hyperpnoea in a psychoneurotic patient convalescent from epidemic encephalitis, Endocrinology 6 (1) Barnes, C. G., and Greaves, R.I.N. (1936): The role of calcium in spontaneous …
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