Experiences with the bichloride of methylene : read before the Medical Society of London, April 20th, 1868 / by Peter Marshall.

  • Marshall, Peter
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1868
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Credit: Experiences with the bichloride of methylene : read before the Medical Society of London, April 20th, 1868 / by Peter Marshall. 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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    as in operations for ovariotomy, to give it more freely, and not to be alarmed if, as sometimes happens, his inhaler should become frozen, owing to the i-apidity of the evaporation. THE SPECIAL PHENOMENA OF ANJSSTHESIA UNDER THE BICHLORIDE OF METHYLENE. The svmptoms which are developed when the Bichloride of Methylene is administered have this in common with the symptoms produced by Chloroform, Etlier and Amylene that there are four degrees or stages exactly as they were discovered and described by Snow. The First stage that of preliminary excitement is shorter with the Bichloride than with any of the other of the Anaesthetics. The Second stage, that of muscular excitement and delirious conversation, is also short if the vapour be freely given, and I have seen this stage passed over altogether. In this respect the Bichloride differs both from Ether and Chloroform, but to some extent resembles Amylene in action. SVhen there is a stage of excitement from the Bichloride, the mental wandering is more consecutive than under the allied substances. If the patient talks, bo speaks with a kind of retained reasoning faculty, and as opposed to what is common under Chloroform, instead of being hilarious, or, it may be, vulgar and libidinous, he is disposed to serious converse and argument: as one of our fi iends expresses it with much emphasis, in speaking of patients under the dffierent Anccsthetics, “they groan under Ether, they swear under Chloroform, and, under Methylene, they say their prayers.” The Second stage passed—The Third stage, under the
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