Artificial anaesthesia : A manual of anaesthetic agents and their employment in the treatment of disease / By Laurence Turnbull.

  • Laurence Turnbull
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1890
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    Paoe. —Distressing Symptoms in Two other Cases in which a Piece of a Tooth passed into the Trachea, and even the Bronchia, causing all the Symptoms of Phthisis; these two patients recovered—Second Case: Dr. Newbrough, New York—Third Case : Mr. George Morley Harrison, at Man- chester, 'England—Tost-mortem Observations by Dr. Clo- ver —Fourth Case: patient, Mr. Samuel P. Sears; operator, Mr. Jose E. Brunet, D.D.S—Fifth Case: Miss Wyndham, of Exeter, England; operator. Dr. F. F. Mason—Sixth Case: patient, M. Lejeune; operator, Duchesne, Paris— Seventh Case: Dr. L. P. Twadell—A Death after the Use of N itrous Oxide : patient, Samuel J. Cresswell; operator, Dr. John D. Thomas [Note : No post-mortem was made, and the Coroner and physicians gave a certificate that Mr. Cresswell died from apoplexy, and had completely recovered from the effects of the gas, and that, according to Dr. Thomas, he had previously inhaled the gas with impunity. He had been attended by one of the physicians pi'eviously for dyspeptic symptoms]—Therapeutic Application of Ni- trous Oxide—Nervous Aphonia—Local Paralysis—Asthma —Epilepsy—Therapeutics of Nitrous Oxide, by Dr. A. Mc- Lane Hamilton, of New York—Dr. Colton on the Safety of Nitrous Oxide Gas in Disease of the Lungs, Heart, Chorea, Hysteria, Epilepsy, Asthma and Paralysis—Nitrous Oxide and Oxygen as an Anaesthetic in Labor, by the late Paul Bert and Dr. Si Klikovich, of St. Petersburg, and Profes- sor Zweifel, of Erlangen—Clover's Inhaler for Nitrous Ox- ide Gas and Ether, with his Valuable Conclusions—Dr. F. N. Otis' Use of Clover's Apparatus—How shall Nitrous Oxide and Ether be Administered ? by Dr. Frederick W. Silk and Dr. Hewitt, of London—Death under the Admin- istration of Nitrous Oxide and Ether—Mixtures of Nitrous Oxide, Ethers, Chloroform and Alcohol for Inhalation— Oxygen Gas as an Anesthetic—Dr. Gray, of Richmond, Va.: his Experiments—Bert, Pfliiger, Carpenter and A. H. Smith's Experiments—Pure Oxygen and Apparatus for its Therapeutic Administration—Oxygen Gas Enema Appara- tus—Caution in its Administration—Formula and Mode of Preparing Oxygen Gas—Opinions of the Dangers and Value of Oxygen Gas, by Dr. J. Solis-Cohen, Philadelphia—De- marquay, of France—Report of a Case, by Dr. Simeon Ab- rahams, of Asphyxiation from Chloroform, and Recovery