CHLOROFORM AS AN ANÆSTHETIC.

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...

Bichloride of Methylene as an Anæsthetic

Ajaoo, Chinese, aged 21 years, admitted August 5th with fungus testis of the right side. The operation for reduction was performed on the 24th August under the influence of the bichloride of methylene ; about 5vi. were administered during the operation, which is a rather tedious one,and aiuesthesia was apparently complete. He came under the influence of the anaesthetic readily, and recovered fr...

Laboratory Tests with Kemithal as an Anæsthetic in Monkeys

Practical Anæsthetic

Sodium Soneryl as a Pre-Anæsthetic Basal Narcotic

SODIUM soneryl, the sodium salt of butyl ethyl barbituric acid, is-olle of the least toxic of the barbiturates. In the series of cases under considleration, consisting of routine general surgical cases, it has, on the whole, given excellent results. Larger doses are tolerated than in the case of most of the other barbiturates, and the ratio between the medicinal and the lethal dose is high. Aft...