Text-book of local anaesthesia for students and practitioners / translated by Ronald E.S. Krohn.

  • Hirschel, Georg, 1875-
Date:
1914
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Credit: Text-book of local anaesthesia for students and practitioners / translated by Ronald E.S. Krohn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bones, it is also possible to operate on the bones of the skull under complete local anzsthesia. Trephining of the skull is rarely per- formed under. general anzesthesia nowadays; only in the case of children or highly nervous individuals will this be unavoidable. The administration of a full dose of morphia with or without scopolamine is particularly advisable before trephining operations, partly in order Fic. 5.—-Line of injection and anesthetic area for the supra-orbital and frontal nerves. to calm the patient before the operation, but still more so to reduce the unpleasant sensation of shock which occurs when the skull-cap is opened. These trephining operations under local anzesthesia have been performed by many surgeons for several years. They are described in detail by Braun, among others. Braun attaches particular