General and local anaesthesia / by Aimé Paul Heineck.

  • Heineck, Aimé Paul.
Date:
1900
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Credit: General and local anaesthesia / by Aimé Paul Heineck. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    Anaesthetics do not, provided the narcosis is not too profound, interfere with the uterine contrac- tions. They do not interfere with the contrac- tions of the abdominal muscles. They weaken the resistance of the perineal muscles. They are of distinct advantage to the mother because by their attenuation of pain the progress of labor is has- tened [this fact is especially demonstrable in wo- men that fear pain]; because they calm the ex- treme agitation and cerebral excitement that labor often produces in very nervous women, and be- cause, by shortening labor, they lessen its trauma- tisms, greatly diminish the parturient's prostra- tion, and make her recovery more rapid. After profound anaesthesia during delivery, in- creased watchfulness against hemorrhage is en- joined by most teachers. Playfair believes that the use of anaesthetics increases the tendency to hemorrhage. This tendency^ to hemorrhage is dis- puted by many good authorities. Fordyce Barker, of New York, says: Through a long number of years I have rarely attended labors without ether. I have never seen from it any ill effects. Espe- cially has it not caused a tendency to hemorrhage. (B) In eclampsia (puerperal) to abort the con- vulsions. (C) In all obstetrical operations as: version, ap- plication of forceps, embryotomy, etc., etc.