More ether : less chloroform / by Joseph E. Lumbard.

  • Lumbard, Joseph Edward, 1865-
Date:
1906
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    T^Pa'4. CY L91 MORE ETHER; LESS CHLOROFORM.* By JOSEPH E. LUMBARD, M.D., NEW YORK. ANESTHETIST TO THE HARLEM HOSPITAL There are few subjects to which a medical student gives less attention than that of anesthetics. Sir Frederick Treves said: There is a widespread im- pression that to give chloroform is a minor act; the power comes with the diploma, and the significance is sometimes emphasized by the remark: 'Well, if a man cannot give chloroform, what can he do ?' Ether and chloroform are still our chief anesthet- ics, and have been rivals for the surgeon's favor for more than half a century. Ether is often preceded by nitrous oxide or ethyl chloride, either of which renders the administration shorter, safer, and pleas- anter. Contrast the old way of strangling the patient into insensibility by the-cone method, with practically no air, and that of using gas or ethyl chloride as a pre- liminary, and the patient knowing nothing of taking ether. A medical friend who had experienced both ways said he knew of no more striking illustration of hell and heaven than taking ether by the two methods mentioned. Nitrous oxide is the safest and most agreeable an- esthetic and it is by far too little understood and *Read before the meeting of the Harlem Medical Asso- ciation, October 3, 1906. Copyright, William Wood & Comnanv