RECTAL ETHER ANÆSTHESIA.

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...

The Administration of Nitrous Oxide as a Preliminary to Ether Anæsthesia

feel that an apology was required for bringing up such a hackneyed question. All the unpleasant sensations experienced during the early stages of ether anaesthesia may be avoided by giving a small quantity of nitrous oxide first. First of all, I wish to express my regret that chloroform is still so largely used, when we have a far safer and an equally satisfactory anaesthetic in ether. As far a...

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

Elementary Anæsthesia

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