ANÆSTHETIC MORTALITY

Practical Anæsthetic

A Simple Anæsthetic Apparatus

In the apparatus about to be described I make no claim to originality in design. It has been my endeavour to find the simplest form of anaesthetic apparatus which could, with slight adaptation, be used with reliability for intra-tracheal, intra-pharyngeal, or intra-nasal induction using ether with air or oxygen. This apparatus has been in constant use for the past 33r years in certain Indian mi...

Modern Anæsthetic Practice

The Choice of Anæsthetic

IN the early days of anaesthesia, almost a full century ago, the sole requirement of an anaesthetic was that it should render the patient oblivious of the surgical procedure, or at least free from pain. LNowadays, however, the anaesthetic is required not only to do this, but also to facilitate the surgery by securing muscular relaxation in many operations; to vary his technique so that bad-risk...

Chloroform as a Local Anæsthetic

a quick operation. Those who have used the syringe and one of the novocain preparations for local anaesthesia know how patients dread the ' poke\ Indeed the operation of securing anaesthesia is more painful than the actual extraction or the incision. This JS understandable because the tissues are inflamed a" round and the slightest touch, and much more a jabis exquisitely painful. Patients woul...