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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1798 Excerpt: ...no great expectations can be derived, yet in a disease where no remedy has ever been found efficacious, surely it is not improper to try an application which at least affords a ray of hope. The quantity of diluted hydrocarbonate, which may be administered daily, is various, according to the constitution of the patient. It is proper, however, to begin by administering one pint of hydrocarbonate with between twenty and thirty pints of common air; and the quantity of the former may, in process of time, be increased conformably to the effects. In breathing this quantity of elastic fluid, it will be proper to let the patient rest four or five times, or in short whenever any giddiness happens to come on; for this giddiness or vertigo generally goes off in two or three minutes, after which the patient may again apply his mouth to the bag or vessel which contains the diluted hydrocarbonate. It It will be found, that custom habituates the lungs to bear the hydrocarbonate, in an increased proportion, as far as a certain limit. Thus the same patient who at first was made vertiginous by a quart of hydrocarbonate, diluted with twenty quarts of common air, will, in process of time, be hardly affected by the double of that quantity. The inhalation of the vapour of ether, as also of other sorts of reduced atmospheres, such as a mixture of azote and common air, of carbonic acid gas and common air, of hydrogen and common air, have been of partial use; however, the mixture last-mentioned seems to have proved more beneficial than any of the rest. This sort of reduced atmosphere must be administered more freely than the diluted hydrocarbonate. The vapour of ether may be inhaled with the utmost facility, as no apparatus is required for it, and it will be found at least of tempor...

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