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XV. Of a remarkable Cure effetled by the Ufe of Carbonit 

 Acid Gas, communicated in a Letter to bis Excellency 

 Prince Demetrius de Golitzin, WLiniJler of the Imperial 

 Court of Ruffia at the Hague. By M. D. JANSENS of 

 Oojlerhout. From the New Tranlk&ions of the Imperial 

 Academy of Sciences at Peterfbtfrgh, Vol. I. 



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Oofterhout, Nov. zjd, 177S. 



N the converfation I had the honour of having with your 

 Excellency on the medical virtue of carbonic acid gasj or fixed 

 air, I promifed to give you an account of the effects it might 

 produce in the putrid fever, by being injected into the rec- 

 tum ; but though in the following cafe, which is certainly 

 very uncommon, I have not exactly followed the method 

 pointed out by your Excellency, having been obliged to give 

 as much of the cinchona or Peruvian bark as pofhble, I 

 however believe that it greatly contributed to the cure. 



The wife of a bargeman at G. Berg, named N. Swart, 

 aged thirty-two, of a fanguine temperament and a found 

 conftitution from the time of her birth, was attacked, alter 

 her third natural delivery, according to every appearance a 

 favourable one, which happened on the 6th of October at 

 two o'clock in the morning, with a fever that began on the 

 8th. It may be right to premife, that on the 6th fhe was 

 exceedingly well, and her evacuations were perfectly free. 



On the 7th they flowed lefs, and fhe began to complain 

 of lafiitude, a great heavinefs in all her limbs attended with 

 a lofs of appetite, and the difappearance of milk from her 

 breads. At the commencement of the third day the eva- 

 cuations were ("topped, and the fever came on by cold and 

 fuccefiivc fits of fhivering with reaching and pain in the 

 head, which was not acute, but accompanied with a fenfa- 

 tion like that of a weight preffing on the cranium, and from 

 which fhe fullered lefs when in bed than when fitting up. 

 Thefc fymptoms were followed by a great heat, with vomit* 

 ing of a bilious; greenilhj highly corrupted fluff: her tongue 



was 



