Artificial Anæsthesia: A Manual of Anæsthetic Agents and Their Employment in the Treatment of Disease

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P. Blakiston, Son, 1896 - 550 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة iii - The knife is searching for disease, — the pulleys are dragging back dislocated limbs, — nature herself is working out the primal curse, which doomed the tenderest of her creatures to the sharpest of her trials ; but the fierce extremity of suffering has been steeped in the waters of forgetfulness, and the deepest furrow in the knotted brow of agony has been smoothed for ever.
الصفحة 441 - The inner tube for delivering the ether runs upwards nearly to the extremity of the outer tube. Now, when the bellows are worked, a double current of air is produced ; one current descending and pressing upon the ether, forcing it along the inner tube, and the other ascending through the outer tube, and playing upon the column of ether as it escapes through the fine jet.
الصفحة 37 - TO COMMEMORATE THE DISCOVERY THAT THE INHALING OF ETHER CAUSES INSENSIBILITY TO PAIN. FIRST PROVED TO THE WORLD AT THE MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL IN BOSTON OCTOBER AD MDCCCXLVI (1846) THIS ALSO COMETH FROM THE LORD OF HOSTS WHICH IS WONDERFUL IN COUNSEL AND EXCELLENT IN WORKING.
الصفحة 277 - First, contrary to the universal belief, traction of the tongue cannot raise the epiglottis ; second, by sufficient extension of the head and neck, whether by volition, instinct, reflex action or by effort of another, whether in the healthy, in the dying or in the dead, the epiglottis is instantly and beyond prevention made completely erect ; third, by a complete extension of the head and neck the tongue and velum, as respiratory obstructions, are removed simultaneously with the epiglottis, and without...
الصفحة 430 - It thus forms a very valuable addition to the various works on therapeutics now in existence. Chemists are so multiplying compounds, that, if each compound is to be thoroughly studied, investigations must be carried far enough to determine the practical importance of the new agents.
الصفحة 27 - As nitrous oxide, in its extensive operation, appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably be used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place?
الصفحة 493 - ... cornea. It is also indicated by stertorous breathing, or by complete relaxation of the muscles. Directly the cornea becomes insensitive, or the breathing becomes stertorous, the inhalation should be stopped. The breathing may become stertorous while the cornea is still sensitive. The rule to stop the inhalation should, notwithstanding, be rigidly enforced, and it will be found that the cornea always becomes insensitive within a few seconds afterward.
الصفحة 483 - ... and depressor nerves — under the influence of the galvanic current. One pole (usually the negative) is placed at the epigastrium, while the other is passed over the forehead and top of the head, by the inner borders of the sterno-cleido-mastoid muscles, from the mastoid fossa to the sternum, at the nape of the neck, and down the entire length of the spine.
الصفحة 489 - Bat the mere inhalation of chloroform is only a part of the process of the administration in practice. A patient with an extremely fatty heart may die from the mere exertion of getting upon the operating table, just as he may die in mounting the steps in front of his own hall door, or from fright at the mere idea of having chloroform or of undergoing an operation, or during his involuntary struggles.
الصفحة x - Jourual. 1502 WALNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA, December, 1889. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. THE rapid sale of a large edition of this work in the short period of one year, shows the appreciation with which it has been received by the medical and dental press and professions. Its success has induced the author to revise the subject-matter and rewrite several of the articles. To make the volume more worthy of the favor of the profession, a number of new and original experiments have been made, especially...

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