Chloroform and substitutes for relief in pain / by Charles Kidd.

  • Kidd, Charles.
Date:
1872
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Credit: Chloroform and substitutes for relief in pain / by Charles Kidd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    ADVERTISEMENT. The early portion of the following Manual is devoted, as it ought to be in historic order, to the subject of sulphuric aether, or, as it is now more properly termed, “ aetherthe second part of that division of the work to chloroform : whilst in the Summary, or concluding abstract, an elFort has been made to fi.K the dose and value of each, respectively, as anaesthetic agents. All the essential facts connected with the “ stages ” of anaesthesia, the various opera- tions where chloroform is now given in moderately large, and where in small doses; the preparatory treatment of patients ; the best rules for resuscitation in impending death from anaesthetics, &c., will be found succinctly given. From the month of October, 1846, and the discovery in America of the anaesthetic pro- perties of aether, we must date a hopeful and new era in operative surgery, as remark- able, perhaps, as that which succeeded the happy invention to tie arteries after ampu-