65. Anæsthesia in Midwifery.

Premedication in Anæsthesia

PREMEDICATION is one of the most valuable elements in the production of good anesthesia and is of great psychological importance. Every an3esthetist knows how difficult it is at times to get good relaxation, without deepening the anesthesia to a dangerous degree; with a suitable narcotic administered one hour before operation, these difficulties should be greatly lessened. There would seem to b...

Planocaine in Spinal Anæsthesia

Siij,?May I point out, to any who feel reluctant to use percaine on account of the waste of time entailed in keeping the patient in the prone position for ten minutes after injection, that the prone position is now considered unnecessary. I now give percaine, the usual hypoboric solution, with the patient sitting up. Depending upon the height of anaesthesia required, the patient is allowed to s...

Anæsthesia in Children

CHILDREN. -By C. Langton Hewer, M.B., B.S. London: H. K. Lewis & Co., Ltd. Price 4[6 net. pp. 111. This is an admirable little book, which should be in the hands of all hospital anaesthetists, for it clearly and briefly summarises the dangers and difficulties met with and, what is more important, indicates how such may be obviated. We are glad to see that reference is made to the importance of ...

Mixed Anæsthesia

The newest tliinjr in surgery is mixed anaesthesia, or mixed narcosis hs sgme prefer to cull it. The idea itself is comparatively old, and chloroform and morphia hare been used together in various ways for the production of anaesthesia ill hospitals, both at home and abroad in a fitful and experimental sort of way, for some three or four years past. But in this country, at all events as far as ...

Intravenous Anæsthesia