AVERTIN-RECTAL ANÆSTHESIA. THE RESULTS TO DATE

Avertin Rectal Narcosis

Tiif, rectal route for anaesthesia has been long under consideration. The first efforts in this direction were made by F. Roux in1846. The undeniable advantages of the rectal route, the easiness of administration, the avoidance of choking and excitation, and freedom from complications, opened up the way for further research. Injury to the bowel wall was the great danger in the experiments of Ro...

Rectal Anæsthesia. (Report of 82 Cases)

Letters of inquiry from several surgeons in India, who had heard of our use of this method, have led to this report. During the last twelve months, about 1,400 operations have been performed in the Mission Hospital. The anaesthetics employed include :? chloroform, about 500 cases; ether, by in-, halation, about 300 ; local anaesthetics, about 300; intraspinal injection, about J 5 ; and ether, b...

Aids to Anæsthesia

Aids to Anæsthesia

Aids to Anæsthesia

M.D., F.R.C.P.(Ed.), F.R.C.P.(Lond.), Sir Stanley Davidson, B.A.(Cantab.), M.D., F.R.C.P.(Ed.), F.R.C.P.(Lond.), M.D.(Oslo), and S. Allstead, M.D., F.R.C.P.(Ed.), F.R.C.P.(Lond.). Seventh Edition. (Pp. xix + 924; figs. 33. 55s.) Edinburgh and London: E. & S. Livingstone, 1958. THE first edition of this book appeared in 1939 and it is pleasing to be able to report that although its girth has bee...