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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    PART FOURTH. CHAPTER VIII. Chloroform—Mode of Preparation—An Improved Chloroform —Purified Chloroform—Mode of Administering Chloroform in the United States, England, France—Inhalers of Various Kinds—The Scotch Method in Detail—Remarks on the Con- clusions of the Hyderabad Commission—Report of Cases in which Chloroform Caused Death by Paralyzing the Heart First—Lancet Commission on Anaesthetics—Direction of Inquiry by Dr. Buxton and His Classification of Cases of Deaths from Chloroform—Geographical Distribution of Fatal- ities from Chloroform—Deaths in the South, in Scotland— Methods Employed for Administering Chloroform in which Death Followed—Causes Assigned for Death by Chloroform —The Amount of Chloroform in 100 Cubic Inches of Satu- rated Mixture—Air and Chloroform at Different Tempera- tures—Snow's Tablets—Pupillary Phenomena Observed in the Various Styles of Chloroform Narcosis—Dr. MacEwen, of Glasgow, on the Mistakes of Young Operators in Touching the Cornea—Stages of Chloroform Ansesthesia—Nelson on the Pupil as a Guide in Giving Chloroform—Toxicological Effects of Chloroform—Howard on Raising the Epiglottis— The Treatment of Arrested Respiration, by Drs. Martin and Hare, on Free and Patulous Nostrils—Conclusions—Addi- tional Facts as to Treatment of Dangerous and Fatal Symp- toms of Chloroform as an Ansesthetic—Sylvester's Method of Artificial Respiration on the Epiglottis in Chloroform— Accidents by Dr. A. E. Prince, New York—Resuscitation by Anal Dilatation, by Dr. L. C. Grosvenor, of Chicago, III.— Dr. Brunton on Chloroform, in the Discussion of Dr. Wood's Paper on Anaesthetics, Before the Berlin Congress—Recent Views in Regard to the Action of Chloroform, by Drs. Gas- kell and Short, of the University of London—Dr. Brunton in His Publication Giving Away the Whole Case of the Hyderabad Commission—Dr. Wood's Opinion and the Au- thor's, Resuscitation by Lingual Traction—Dr. J. Lawrence Hamilton's Views on Professor Laborde's labors—Dr. Bowles Has Shown that in Apparent Death from Drowning, in the Supine or Horizontal Position, the Paralyzed Tongue, by Let- PAGE