Gases or volatile liquids that vary in the rate at which they induce anesthesia; potency; the degree of circulation, respiratory, or neuromuscular depression they produce; and analgesic effects. Inhalation anesthetics have advantages over intravenous agents in that the depth of anesthesia can be changed rapidly by altering the inhaled concentration. Because of their rapid elimination, any postoperative respiratory depression is of relatively short duration. (From AMA Drug Evaluations Annual, 1994, p173)
    

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Coramina : en casos de urgencia, 5-10 cm3 por via intravenosa / CIBA.

On the anaesthetic properties of the Lycoperdon proteus, or common puff-ball / by Benjamin W. Richardson.

Discovery of etherization : brief embracing the legal points of Dr. Morton's case.

Clinical use of the EMO inhaler.

A case of fracture of the os innominatum, and death in connection with the administration of sulphuric ether : communicated to the Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati / by W.H. Mussey.

On the inhalation of the vapour of ether in surgical operations : containing a description of the various stages of etherization, and a statement of the result of nearly eighty operations in which ether has been employed in St. George's and University College Hospitals / by John Snow.

Anesthetics, Inhalation

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On the anaesthetic properties of the Lycoperdon proteus, or common puff-ball / by Benjamin W. Richardson.

Discovery of etherization : brief embracing the legal points of Dr. Morton's case.

Clinical use of the EMO inhaler.

A case of fracture of the os innominatum, and death in connection with the administration of sulphuric ether : communicated to the Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati / by W.H. Mussey.

On the inhalation of the vapour of ether in surgical operations : containing a description of the various stages of etherization, and a statement of the result of nearly eighty operations in which ether has been employed in St. George's and University College Hospitals / by John Snow.