A treatise on etherization in childbirth : Illustrated by five hundred and eighty one cases / By Walter Channing.

  • Channing, Walter, 1786-1876.
Date:
1848
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Credit: A treatise on etherization in childbirth : Illustrated by five hundred and eighty one cases / By Walter Channing. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CORRESPONDENCE. [For convenience of reference of the answers to the questions in the circular which are contained in the following Correspondence, the ques- tions are reprinted here.] 1. Number of cases, and whether in natural or instrumental labors ? 2. Quantity used ? 3. How long used ? 4. How long before effects ? 5. How far unconsciousness occurred ? 6. How far insensibility occurred ? 7. Special effects, physical, moral, and intellectual, in individual cases? 8. Apparent danger, and how manifested? 9. Results to mother, both immediately after delivery, and later? 10. Results to child, as to being alive or still-born, and its condition since? 11. The use of ether and of chloroform in childbirth ? From A. A. Gould, M.D. Dr. Channing. Dear Sir, — I have met with only two patients who cared to be put under the full effects of ether or chloroform. I. Mrs. C. at about twenty-six; second child. Tall and slender; nervous diathesis. Had experimented with chloroform with others in the family, but without satisfactory effects. When the head had passed the os uteri, and had reached the perineum, and when there was every probability that it would have been born in ten minutes, began to inhale chloroform by the paper funnel. A state of restlessness ensued; tossing from side to side ; noisy exclamations, in a half-conscious state, for more chloroform. The uterine effort subsided ; and, after fifteen minutes, the inhalation was suspended. Restlessness continued, without return of pains, for two hours, when she fell asleep, and continued sleeping an hour. On awaking, natural and effectual pain returned, and the child -was immediately born. Child large and healthy. Mother speedily recovered. About an ounce was used of the same article, which produced speedy anaesthesia in other members of the family. There can he no doubt that the uterine action was interfered with in this case.