REGIONAL ANÆSTHESIA

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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Spinal Anæsthesia

SIR?As one who has been using spinal anaesthesia of late, it would be of interest to hear from other users what disadvantages they have experienced in its use, and especially whether they have employed it in children, and of what age and for what purposes. One would think that for stone in children it would be ideal, as the relaxation is so complete, but I believe text-books caution surgeons ag...

Spinal Anæsthesia