This section is from the book "Materia Medica And Therapeutics Inorganic Substances", by Charles D. F. Phillips. Also available from Amazon: Materia medica and therapeutics.
At Kissingen, baths containing carbonic acid gas are much used for these maladies. Dr. Parkin wrote strongly upon the value of carbonic acid in gout, but administered it in the complex form of a strong alkaline effervescent draught (Lancet, 1843).
 
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