The use of weak cocaine solutions in operations for the removal of cervical tumors / by Frederic Griffith.
- Griffith, Frederic.
- Date:
- [1903]
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The use of weak cocaine solutions in operations for the removal of cervical tumors / by Frederic Griffith. 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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![Reprinted from the New York Medical Journal and Phila- delphia Medical Journal, Consolidated, for November 28, 1903. / f X ' - -;V THE USE OF WEAK COCAINE SOLU- TIONS IN OPERATIONS FOR THE REMOVAL OF CERVICAL TUMORS. By FREDERIC GRIFFITH, M. D., NEW YORK, SURGEON, BELLEVUE DISPENSARY; FELLOW . OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE; ASSISTANT SURGEON TO THE NEW YORK POLYCLINIC SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL; ASSISTANT SURGEON (g. U.) TO THE NEW YORK HOSPITAL (HOUSE OF RELIEF), ETC. Cocaine will never usurp the place held by chloroform and ether as an anaesthetic in the hos- pital, for the reason that it divides the operator’s attention. For the office patient and when away from the help accorded by the house staff, how- ever, the perfection of procedure by this means must ever command attention. Bodine has shown conclusively that hernial operations are clearly within the scope of cocaine surgery. The dissection of the neck in cases of tumor forma- tion, particularly those of tuberculous adenomata, would seem to be contraindicated from the very tediousness of the task. The following reports are the case histories of cervical tumor formations removed under the influence of cocaine anaesthesia obtained by *4 per cent, to ]/% per cent, solutions of the drug in a warm, weak soda solution;](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22478437_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
