Etherization, with surgical remarks / by John C. Warren.
- John Collins Warren
- Date:
- 1848
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Etherization, with surgical remarks / by John C. Warren. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![The appearances presented by the patients under the influence of ether have a general resemblance : they are varied, however, by the constitution of the patient and the mode of application, so as to present exceptions, to an extent it would be useless to describe. The first inhalations were made through the tube and glass globe of Dr. Morton, afterwards a sponge, as ap- plied by Dr. Mason Warren in the cases of children, was used also in those of adults, found to be more safe and convenient than the tube, and therefore employed in the greater part of our practice.* The first symptom usually noticed is a short cough, which impels the patient to remove the sponge; but being urged to allow it to be replaced, he readily consents, per- haps after a slight expectoration, and no severe pulmon- ary irritation being felt, he proceeds to inspire the va- * Dr. Mason Warren first used the sponge for children in i-cirnary 1847 [sec Boston Medical and Surgical Journal for March.] At about the same time it was used bv Dr. Smith, a distinguished physician of Cheltenham, England, but does not seem to have been extensively employed by him till the latter part of March, or first of April.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22361698_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
