Lectures on general anaesthetics in dentistry : advocating painless dental operations by the use of nitrous oxid, nitrous oxid and oxygen, chloroform, ether, ethyl chloride and somnoform / by William Harper De Ford.

  • De Ford, William Harper, 1858-
Date:
1912
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Credit: Lectures on general anaesthetics in dentistry : advocating painless dental operations by the use of nitrous oxid, nitrous oxid and oxygen, chloroform, ether, ethyl chloride and somnoform / by William Harper De Ford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    should be continued at the rate of liftcen times per minute. Watch carefully for a return of respiration and aid it till it is normally re-estal)lis]ied. Do not become discouraged. Patients are sometimes resusci- tated after physicians have given up the case as hope- less. A very prominent Chicago dentist succeeded in resuscitating his own wife two hours after physicians had pronounced the case hopeless and taken their de- parture. Chloroform was the anaesthetic used in this case. In the Marshall Hall method of artificial respiration the patient is placed face downward and he is rolled to his side gently, then back again about fifteen times per minute. When in the prone position make pres- sure on the back, then roll to the side again. There are other methods of artificial respiration, but the Sylvester method meets the requirements bet- ter than the others. \\'hile the anaesthetist is busy with the arm manip- ulation the tongue should be grasped with a forceps and rhythmical traction made. If the heart is beating, a hypodermic injection of strychnia, 1-20 of a grain, should be made to further stimulate the heart's action. Drugs, however, are not considered of much avail in this form of respiratory arrest by Hewitt and others. Circulatory Failure. Circulatory failure is a condition the dental surgeon is not apt to see if he confines himself to the use of nitrous oxid, somnoform and ethyl chloride. These agents are sometimes productive of respiratory arrest.