Visceral vapours

Antibacterial action of anaesthetic vapours.

A permanent alternative is to re-site the fresh gas inflow to the back of the absorber where it has always been positioned in the past. With the elimination of the fresh gas flow error, it is found that respirometers placed at the catheter mount and in the circle give almost identical readings with spontaneous respiration. With controlled respiration there is over-reading of the circle respirom...

A touch of the vapours...

On narcotism by the inhalation of vapours

produced a thorough and sensible study which will become the standard reference work on garum and salted fish in the Roman world. There is now no excuse for ignoring their dietary importance in the ancient world, and it is to be hoped that Curtis or someone else will take the study of this aspect further. The Greenland mummies, first published simultaneously in Danish and Greenlandic in 1985, i...

Thermocamera studies of gases and vapours.

Most gases and vapours with a bipolar molecular structure absorb infrared energy. If such a gas is interposed between an object emitting infrared radiation and a thermocamera the gas will absorb some of the infrared radiation and thus cast a shadow on the thermocamera picture. In this assay it is possible to visualise the gas. This method had been used to study pollution with anaesthetic gases ...

The antibacterial action of anaesthetic vapours.

The antibacterial action of the vapours of the volatile anaesthetic agents on E. coli has been investigated. Known numbers of organisms were exposed to various concentrations of halothane, chloroform, trichloroethylene, methoxyflurane, and diethyl ether, under controlled conditions of humidity and oxygen concentration. It was found that these agents reduced the survival of the organisms to an e...