RECTAL NARCOSIS IN OPHTHALMIC SURGERY

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...

Ophthalmic Surgery

book without padding and covers quite enough oround for those for whom it poses to be written, and it well represents the practice of the present da}7. From its clearness and conciseness, and from the fact that it covers not too much ground but quite enough, we should say that it should rank as one of the best of students' text-books. We see that the authors recognise extraction of the lens in ...

Ophthalmic Surgery

F.R.C.S., and W. A. rrost, F.R.C.S. London: Cassell & Co. 1887. The book before us well maintains the excellent reputation of The Clinical Manuals for Practitioners and Students of Medicine. Our authors are well-known ophthalmic surgeons, thoroughly competent to write upon their speciality, both from large practical experience and from wide literary knowledge of it. This volume is very readable...

Ophthalmic Surgery

Cocaine in Ophthalmic Surgery

Cystitis, necessitating the washing out of his bladder and draiuiug of his urine four times a day ; as this operation was attended with severe pain, I prescribed an injection of 1 ?/0 Cucaine, which allowed the catheter to be passed without pain or rigor until the original disease became somewhat cured, and the patient now passes the catheter himself, the great dread he had of the process havin...