A Manual of etherizationJ.B. Mansfield, 1861 - 134 páginas |
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Academy of Sciences acetic acetic ether action of ether administration of ether alcohol aldehyde amputation anæs anesthesia anesthetic anesthetic agent apparatus Arterial asphyxia blood Boston Bouisson C. T. Jackson carbonic acid Chambert chlorine chloro Compte Rendu convulsions dangerous dentist disease distillation effects of ether employed ether and chloroform ether vapor ethereal inhalation experiments on animals extraction Fahr felt Flourens formic acid fracture France fusel oil influence of ether inhalation of ether insensible to pain J. C. Warren letter litmus paper Massachusetts General Hospital medulla oblongata ment minutes mixture muscular nerves of sensation nervous centres observed odor oxygen pamphlet 8vo Paris patient performed person placed prevent produced proved removal rendered respiration Roux sensation of pain sign of pain Simpson sleep specific gravity spinal marrow sponge suffering sulphuric acid sulphuric ether surgeons surgery surgical operations thigh tion trial tube tumor valves Velpeau washed
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Página 11 - In cutting one of the unlucky teeth called denies sapientiae, 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...
Página 74 - This plain proof of his utter unconsciousness of the operation having been performed, was acknowledged by the spectators in a hearty round of applause. The patient then sat up, and seeing the wound, burst into an immoderate fit of laughter, saying, ' No doubt there's blood, or something very like it; but I haven't felt a single thing done to my leg. That bates the globe;' and on being asked decidedly as to his having ' felt anything,' he repeatedly answered,
Página 18 - Boston, and in my last lecture, which I think was in the month of February, I had occasion to show a number of experiments in illustration of the theory of volcanic eruptions, and for these experiments I prepared a large quantity of chlorine gas, collecting it in gallon glass jars over boiling water. Just as one of these large jars was filled with pure chlorine, it overturned and broke, and in my endeavors to save the vessel, I accidentally got my lungs full of chlorine gas, which nearly suffocated...
Página 20 - Reflecting on these phenomena, the idea flashed into my mind that I had made the discovery I had for so long a time been in quest of — a means of rendering the nerves of sensation temporarily insensible, so as to admit of the performance of a surgical operation on an individual without his suffering pain therefrom.
Página 73 - navvy"—who had sustained compound fracture of the leg nine weeks before. The fracture had not united, in consequence of the presence of a dead piece of bone, and it became necessary to remove this by a painful operation. The patient was seated on a table, and the inhalation was...
Página 74 - And then, with the manner of a tipsy man, and very happy, he kept surgeons and students in a roar of laughter for some minutes with a narrative of his condition during the inhalation, which, Irish-like, seemed to have been a strange medley of imaginary fights and ' killings' going on around him, but wholly irrespective of his own leg and the operation. On being carried out, he declared triumphantly, ' This is the very best thing that has ever happened in the three kingdoms.
Página 47 - Knife and pain, in surgery, are two words which never present themselves the one without the other in the minds of patients, and it is necessary for us surgeons to admit their association.
Página 74 - He got into amazing spirits, and refused to leave the table until he had told ' all about the toldrums of the business.' And then, with the manner of a tipsy man, and very happy, he kept surgeons and students in a roar of laughter for some minutes with a narrative of his condition during the inhalation, which, Irish-like, seemed to have been a strange medley of imaginary fights and ' killings' going on around him, but wholly irrespective of his own leg and the operation.
Página 75 - This is the very best thing that has ever happened in the three kingdoms." The professor stated that he considered this case quite conclusive as to the powers of the ether, because there was no more painful operation in all surgery, and because the patient, having been avowedly a hard and habitual drinker of spirits, was one of those persons who are least susceptible of the ether's influence. The whole proceedings seemed to give the greatest satisfaction to the medical and surgical officers of the...
Página 73 - At length, however, while in this wakeful state, the operation was begun. Incisions were made on the shin, and flaps were dissected off so as to expose the bone beneath. A portion of this was sawn and clipped through, and then the dead bone was removed.