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Chloroform: Its Action and Administration, A Handbook (1865) Arthur Ernest Sansom No preview available - 2008 |
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Page 111 - Replace the patient on the face, raising and supporting the chest well on a folded coat or other article of dress.
Page 141 - A mixture of ether and chloroform is as effective as pure chloroform, and a safer agent when deep and prolonged anaesthesia is to be induced ; though slow in its action, it is sufficiently rapid in its operation to be convenient for general use.
Page 4 - Temper'd with drugs of sovereign use, to assuage The boiling bosom of tumultuous rage ; To clear the cloudy front of wrinkled Care, And dry the tearful sluices of Despair : Charm'd with that virtuous draught, the exalted mind All sense of woe delivers to the wind.
Page 29 - The Sub-Committee appointed by the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society to inquire into the relations of ' Membranous Croup and Diphtheria ' are anxious to obtain the result of the experience and observation of medical practitioners throughout the country on the subject. They therefore venture to hope that you will, as far as may be in your power, reply to the annexed queries, which have...
Page 162 - In abnormal lahour.—The anaesthetic may be employed with advantage in various obstetrical operations — as forceps, turning, craniotomy, and extraction of retained placenta — unless the patient is much enfeebled by haemorrhage ; when, if given, it ought to be accompanied by the use of -stimulants. It may also 'be employed advantageously to check the paroxysms in puerperal convulsions.
Page 86 - A sparrow left in a bellglass to breathe over and over again the same air, will live in it for upwards of three hours ; but at the close of the second hour — when there is consequently still air of sufficient purity to permit this sparrow's breathing it for more than an hour longer — if a fresh and vigorous sparrow be introduced, it will expire almost immediately. The air which would suffice for the respiration of one sparrow suffocates another. Nay more, if the sparrow...
Page 142 - Committee evidently attach importance, since to their recommendation they append the opinion that "the alcohol which it contains probably stimulates and sustains the action of the heart.
Page 57 - From the foregoing facts and other considerations, the author considers that certain conclusions in regard to the action of anaesthetics are warrantable. Anaesthetics are agents which when absorbed into the circulation exert an influence upon the blood. They are shown to have the power of altering its physical character and physical properties.
Page 104 - Such measures as dashing cold water on the patient and applying ammonia to the nostrils can hardly be expected to have any effect on a patient who is suffering from an over-dose of chloroform, for they would have no effect whatever on one who has inhaled it in the usual manner, and is merely ready for a surgical operation, but in no danger.
Page 142 - ... on account of the uniform blending of the ether and chloroform when combined with alcohol, and the equable escape of the constituents in vapour ; and the committee suggest that it should be more extensively tried than it has hitherto been in this country.