THE CORNEAL REFLEX IN ANÆSTHESIA.

Corneal reflex in hemisphere disease.

The contralateral corneal reflex may be absent in patients with a deep lesion of the parietal lobe. Frontal and temporal lobe lesions apparently do not interfere with this reflex.

Vertical location of the corneal light reflex in strabismus photography.

OBJECTIVE To improve the clinical documentation of strabismus by mathematically predicting and clinically verifying the location of a fixation target that produces a vertically centered corneal light reflex (first Purkinje image) in clinical photographs of the eye using a standard photographic flash unit. MATERIALS AND METHODS Mathematical modeling of the corneal light reflex during clinical ...

The Physiology of Anæsthesia

Premedication in Anæsthesia

PREMEDICATION is one of the most valuable elements in the production of good anesthesia and is of great psychological importance. Every an3esthetist knows how difficult it is at times to get good relaxation, without deepening the anesthesia to a dangerous degree; with a suitable narcotic administered one hour before operation, these difficulties should be greatly lessened. There would seem to b...

Planocaine in Spinal Anæsthesia

Siij,?May I point out, to any who feel reluctant to use percaine on account of the waste of time entailed in keeping the patient in the prone position for ten minutes after injection, that the prone position is now considered unnecessary. I now give percaine, the usual hypoboric solution, with the patient sitting up. Depending upon the height of anaesthesia required, the patient is allowed to s...