A few words upon anæsthetics1883 |
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acid acupuncture alluded may prove anæs anaesthetic anæsthetic agents anaesthetic properties ancient philo anesthesia anesthetists atmospheric air B. W. Richardson bhang bichloride of methylene boiled in wine chemical chloride of methyl chloroform Claude Bernard Clover Coleman COLLECTIVE APPARATUS Colton compressed deadly nightshade Dental Hospital dental operations dentist desirous of reviewing Dioscorides effects ether or chloroform face-piece Fahr flexible tube gasometer hashish Horace impossible india-rubber Indian hemp boiled insensibility Junker's liquid anæsthetic liquid nitrous oxide mandragora manufacture medulla medulla oblongata Messrs mixture mouth mouth-piece nerves nervous centres Nitrate of Ammonium nitrous oxide gas opium or Indian oxygen Paul Bert penthos Physiological Action Pliny preparation produce anesthesia produce insensi prolonged properties of nitrous Receptacle containing repeatedly of mandragora short Narcoses shown in fig sophers speak repeatedly speaks of nepenthe specific gravity square inch Stanislas Julien stopcock sulphuric ether thetic tion of opium tooth valve vapour Wells's WORDS UPON ANESTHETICS
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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.