Surgical Anaesthesia: Addresses and Other PapersLittle, Brown,, 1900 - 378 páginas |
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action agent American Medical Association amputation anæsthesia anæsthetic anatomy animal application asphyxia Boston cause character chemistry chloroform claim common conceded danger death dentist discovery disease doubt effect equally especially ether inhalation evidence existence experiments facts faculty force glottis hand Hospital human hypothesis important individual induction inebriating influence inhalation intellect invention inventor Jackson knowledge labor less machinery Massachusetts General Hospital Massachusetts Medical Society material mechanical medical education medical science medical student medicine method mind minutes modern Morton muscular narcotism nature nitrous oxide Novum Organum observation occurred once opium oxygen pain patient perhaps phenomena philosopher physician physiology practice practitioner principle probable protracted proved pulse quackery question recognized relation respiration safe says scientific success suffering suggestion sulphuric ether surgeon surgery surgical operations symptoms teaching theory therapeutics tion truth tumor vapor vivisection vivisector
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Página 117 - 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.
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Página 140 - I experienced an extensive inflammation of the gum, accompanied with great pain, which equally destroyed the power of repose, and of consistent action. "On the day when the inflammation was most troublesome, I breathed three large doses of nitrous oxide. The pain always diminished after the first four or five inspirations; the thrilling came on as usual, and uneasiness was for a few minutes swallowed up in pleasure. As the former state of mind however returned, the state of organ returned with it...
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Página 274 - Physicians should, therefore, minister to the sick with due impressions of the importance of their office; reflecting that the ease, the health, and the lives of those committed to their charge, depend on their skill, attention and fidelity. They should study, also, in their deportment, so to unite tenderness with firmness, and condescension with authority, as to inspire the minds of their patients with gratitude, respect and confidence.
Página 6 - It is necessary to use caution in making experiments of this kind. By the imprudent inspiration of ether, a gentleman was thrown into a very lethargic state, which continued with occasional periods of intermission for more than thirty hours, and a great depression of spirits; for many days the pulse was so much lowered that considerable fears were entertained for his life.
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Página 93 - F., it occurred to me that a very volatile product of petroleum might be more sure to congeal the tissues, besides being far less expensive than ether. Mr. Merrill having, at my request, manufactured a liquid of which the boiling point was 70° F., it proved that the mercury was easily depressed by this agent to 19° below zero, and that the skin could be with certainty frozen hard in five or ten seconds.