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

  • De Ford, William Harper, 1858-
Date:
[1908], [©1908]
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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 analgesia, ethyl chloride and somnoform / by William H. De Ford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    belling, really needs someone who understands how to keep her from sliding down in the chair and getting away from you, or to keep the hands from grabbing the inhaler or steady the head as it is turned violently from one side to the other. With nitrous oxid, the assistant having all she can attend to, especially if oxygen is to be used with the nitrous oxid, the parenf or some friend has to assist in holding the patient and this should never be permitted when nitrous oxid is the ansesthetic agent employed. As soon as the patietit becomes a little cyanotic, the friend or parent, which- ever it may be/frequently becomes hj'-sterical, thinking the child is dying, insists that you discontinue, and if you do and extract, then the child yells and screams as loud as she can, then the mother contends that you not only nearly killed the child with the anaesthetic, but that you hurt her besides. In administering nitrous oxid, no member of the family or near relative should be allowed to stand where they can see the patient. It is much better that they should not be allowed even in the operating-room. When I am using somnoform, I prefer the parents or friends to remain near the pa- tient till I'am ready to begin to extract. At the nod of my head, as previously arranged, the parent or friend leaves the room, and I call them as soon as the ex- tracting is completed and have them stand in front of the little patient so she will see them as soon as she is sufficiently awake. Under somnoform ansesthesia, the patient has a quiet, sleepHke appearance, beautiful to behold and the parent seeing the child sleeping away so beautifully is not as apprehensive of fear or does