A few words upon anæsthetics

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Page 6 - 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.
Page 4 - Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou ow'dst yesterday.
Page 6 - NH3, in which three atoms of hydrogen are replaced by three atoms of dimethylenammonium.
Page 9 - It would be quite beyond the scope of this little work to...
Page 5 - Aristotle, employed compression of the veins of the neck to produce anaesthesia in young men who were about to undergo the painful ceremony of circumcision, a fact fully confirmed by the experiments of Dr. Flemming some twenty years since. The Chinese, according to a MS. of the third century of our era, translated by M. Stanislas Julien, constantly used a preparation...
Page 8 - Bichloride of methylene, or methylene, appears to combine the anaesthetic powers of ether and chloroform without their danger.

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