REGIONAL ANÆSTHESIA IN EXTRAPLEURAL THORACOPLASTY AND SOME INTRATHORACIC OPERATIONS

Lactation Following Thoracoplasty Operations

Salkin et al. (1949) for the first time described an interesting phenomenon of milk secretion following surgery of the thoracic cage. The exact incidence of this innocuous complication is not known. From the observations made at various times, it is the writer's impression that its occurrence is not too infrequent. It escapes the attention of the thoracic surgeon, because of failure on the part...

Deep Infiltration Anæsthesia in Ophthalmic Operations

Preliminary Report on Anæsthesia and Akinesia in Intra-ocular Operations

WHEN a patient expresses sufficient confidence in a surgeon to allow him to perform an intra-ocular operation upon his eye, it is up to the surgeon to make this ordeal as easy and as safe as it is possible for him to do. All our patients are admitted to hospital two days before operation, so that they may get to know the nursing staff and their surroundings. They are told what will happen to th...

Deep Infiltration Anæsthesia of the Orbit in Eye Operations

I have read with great interest the article contributed by Major J. N. Duggan, d.o. (Oxon.), of Bombay, describing in detail the method of deep infiltration anaesthesia of the orbit. Since then I had occasion *to use this form of anaesthesia in 11 cataract operations and in 2 cases of sclero-corneal trephining operations for sub-acute glaucoma. Though this is not in itself a big record to go up...

Thoracoplasty