The elements of therapeutics : a clinical guide to the action of medicines / by C. Binz ; tr. from the 5th German ed., and ed., with additions, in conformity with the British and American pharmacopoeias, by Edward I. Sparks.

  • Karl Binz
Date:
1877
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Credit: The elements of therapeutics : a clinical guide to the action of medicines / by C. Binz ; tr. from the 5th German ed., and ed., with additions, in conformity with the British and American pharmacopoeias, by Edward I. Sparks. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    bleeding has quite ceased before the gas is inhaled a second time. It may be given over and over again at tbe same sitting, but dentists now generally prefer not to give tbe gas more than twice at one sitting, and this appears to be a judicious precaution. It has been given at aU ages, to the feeble and to the strong, as well as to people suffering from the most various diseases; still it would be unadvisable to administer it in cases of advanced lung disease (especially when there is much difficulty in breathing), in advanced heart disease, or in acute disease of the heart and lungs. The after-effects are as a rule absolutely nil, and the patient is able to get up and walk away a few minutes after the inhalation. There is no nausea or vomiting. In a few cases there is a tendency to faintness. More rarely headache occurs, and in some cases hysterical symptoms are met with, which however rarely last long. It must not be forgotten that no anaesthetic is likely to be found absolutely free from danger, and even nitrous oxide should never be given except in the presence of a qualified medical man. Mtrous oxide is now also frequently administered in com- bination with aether, by an ingenious, though necessarily complicated, apparatus invented by Mr. Clover early in 1874. The gas is first turned on until the patient is nearly under its influence, and then anaesthesia is contiuued and kept up by aether. Should it be at any time desirable owing to return- ing consciousness to render the patient quickly insensible to pain, nitrous oxide can be again turned on. This combina- tion is applicable to all operations, it does away with the un- pleasantness of aether, it is more rapid in its effects than either aether alone or chloroform, and is safer than chloroform.] The following drugs although possessing some astringent properties are chiefly employed for mechanical purposes :—