Artificial anæsthesia : a manual of anæsthetic agents and their employment in the treatment of disease / by Laurence Turnbull.

  • Turnbull, Laurence, 1821-1900.
Date:
1896
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Credit: Artificial anæsthesia : a manual of anæsthetic agents and their employment in the treatment of disease / by Laurence Turnbull. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This little work was originally written by the Author as a report for a medical society, and was subsequently extended to its present form to supply a want that evidently exists at the present day, for a convenient hand-book on the administration of the various anaesthetics, that the practitioner of medicine or dentistry can consult, to enable him to decide which one he can best employ. Many valuable books have, unquestionably, been written on the subject of anaesthetics, but as far as the writer's observations extend, none of a practical character have appeared within the last few years. Much useful matter in relation to sulphuric ether, nitrous oxide, and chloroform, emploj^ed as anaesthetics, has accumulated within this period, but this valu- able information is contained in various monographs, journals, otc, where, associated with what is extraneous, it is unprofit- able to the busy practitioner. The object of this work may be stated to be : First. To give in as concise a manner as possible a description of the most available agents that may be successfully and safely employed as anassthetics. Second. To present the chief chemical tests of the purity of each substance considered, with its composition, physical char- acters and medical properties. Third. To exhibit the best methods of administering the various anaesthetics, to give careful directions, and to state the precautions to be taken to avoid risk to the life of the patient. Fourth. To note the personal experience of the author, his assistants and friends, with angesthetics and the various forms of inhalers in use, with a selection of the most approved, not withholding, however, the objections, but noting the experi- ments of other reliable investigators. Fifth. To compare the relative mortality from all the anaes- thetics now employed, endeavoring to assist the reader in form- ing a fair and candid opinion of this most important subject, which has for so long a period occupied the attention of the public as well as the medical profession. 1502 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, March, 1878.