Practical notes on nitrous oxide (N2O) : a brochure / by J. Ottley Atkinson.

  • Atkinson, J. Ottley
Date:
1892
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    As a test of nerve power we know of nothing equal in severity to a first class dental operation conducted under Nitrous Oxide anaesthesia. It is admitted that no other anaesthetic re- quires the same amount of care and skill in its exhibition as Nitrous Oxide, and it ought at all tunes to be under the supervision of a highly- trained and experienced practitioner,—this fact is not sufficiently recognised. We cannot admit that the gas has ever obtained its proper posi- tion in the dentist’s surgery until it has banished all other known anaesthetics. When the public has become fully educated to appreciate the merits of the gas, and when the dentists themselves have succeeded in doing it full justice, it will be a rare thing to hear of an extraction without its aid. “It is well known that all general anaesthetics which produce unconsciousness have been used first by dentists, or else for the purpose of ex- tracting teeth. This has been the case with the oldest anaesthetic—Nitrous Oxide gas—as well as with the more recent ones—ether, chloro- form, methylene, chloride of ethyl, and hydro- bromic ether.”* * A lecture delivered in Halle-on-the-Salle, at the 64th meet- ing of the Society of German Naturalists and Physicians, September, 1891, by Professor Ludwig Hollaender, Halle-on- the-Salle.
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