The Act does not go into questions of corneal reflex, and unconscious muscular movements, and all the undefinable shades between incomplete anaesthesia and complete anaesthesia and profound anaesthesia.
In 1902, it said, "The blessed word anaesthesiawarns off the profane anti-vivisectionist who would rob the altars of science of their victims.
The whole history of anaesthesiais to be found in the Practitioner, Oct.
He tells us that he was consulted by a certain sophist called Pausanias, who had a severe degree of anaesthesia of the little and ring fingers.
In every experiment, except two, the animal was, throughout the whole experiment, under complete anaesthesia with chloroform or ether.
In discussing amputations he mentions the use of anaesthetics by the older surgeons, and quotes from Guy de Chauliac the method of anaesthesia employed by him, but he thinks that better results are obtained without the use of such material.
That anaesthesia and antiseptic practice should obtain for a while and then gradually be lost is no harder to understand than that hospitals should gradually "sink to an almost indescribable level of degradation.
Complete and conscientiousanaesthesia is seldom even attempted, the animal getting at most a slight whiff of chloroform by way of satisfying the conscience of the operator, or enabling him to make statements of a humane character.
Then it occurred to her that the face of a person under spinal anaesthesia might in itself be a reason.
That would be the same thing as going home: little enough change from spinalanaesthesia in that!
Once or twice he murmured something to Tiger at the anaesthesia controls, and occasionally he nodded reassurance to the Moruan surgeon.
His blood pressure was sagging, and at one time Tiger sat up sharply, staring at his anaesthesia dials and frowning in alarm as the nervous-system reactions flagged.
If we could get him cooled down enough, we could lighten the anaesthesiaand maintain him as is, indefinitely.
Of course, you realized that prolonged anaesthesia in itself could threaten that patient's life?
The situation was bad; the anaesthesia had already gone on too long, and the blood chemistry record showed progressive failure.
The overhead light in the ship's tiny surgery glowed brightly; the only sound in the room was the wheeze of the anaesthesia apparatus, the snap of clamps and the doctors' own quiet breathing as they worked desperately against time.
By the latter method it produces anaesthesia but does not diffuse, and the anaesthesia remains strictly limited to the surface covered by the electrode.
In tabes dorsalis faradic treatment will often diminish the anaesthesia and numbness in the legs, with resulting benefit to the ataxy.
Another direction in which electric ions are being used is that of the induction of local anaesthesia before minor surgical operations.
Cocaine is the drug used, the resulting anaesthesia is absolute, and the operation can be made almost bloodless by the admixture of suprarenal extract.
The sensory stimulation of this form of treatment is also strong, and is useful in hysterical anaesthesia and functional paralysis.
Spinal anaesthesia is the injection of stovaine or similar substance into the spinal cord, producing anaesthesia of a large part of the body, varying according to the site of the injection.
The earliest record of attempts to produce anaesthesia is to be found in the thirteenth century.
Twilight sleep, increasingly used in childbirth, is the production of a partial anaesthesia by the administration of scopolamin morphine.
Mesmeric anaesthesia can well be classified under diversion or subjugation of the will, but can be effected in but a small percentage of the cases.
He was the one man who by his own individual effort established the practice of anaesthesia, while Morton has the honour of being the one man without whom anaesthesia might have remained unknown.
It is to Simpson's credit that he perceived how the introduction of anaesthesia had taxed the hospitals and bewildered the operators, who sought diligently but unsuccessfully in every direction for some means of reducing hospital mortality.
The first suggestion to produce anaesthesiaby the inhalation of drugs was made by Sir Humphry Davy in 1800.
The name of the man who thus for the first time underwent an operation under anaesthesia induced by ether was Eben Frost.
The increased fame and greatly increased professional income which followed the successful struggle for anaesthesia did not affect Simpson's homely characteristics.
Those who objected to anaesthesia on moral grounds directed their attacks chiefly against its use in midwifery.
But the professional opponents of anaesthesia were most emphatic in the denunciation of its use in midwifery.
Hypnotism was known to the Indians, Egyptians, and Persians at a very remote period, and may possibly have been used by them sometimes to produce anaesthesia for surgical purposes.
In a truer and more serious religious spirit he reminded his foolish opponents of the Christian dispensation, and pointed out how the employment of anaesthesia was in strict consonance with the glorious spirit thereof.
The persons who first made the bold experiments which resulted in the discovery of how to produce anaesthesia were Americans; and two men were prominently concerned in the discovery.
Some curious experiments in the production of local anaesthesia were observed by the committee on mesmerism from the Society for Psychical Research.
Sometimes, when this condition of anaesthesia does not appear with the sleep, it may be induced by passes, or by suggesting that a certain limb or the whole body is without feeling.
A slight amount of anaesthesia still remained, when I saw the patient more than a year after the injury.
Notta reports three cases in whichanaesthesia was observed.
There was strongly marked anaesthesia of the skin of the right half of the face, of the gums, and of the side of the tongue.
I agree with Eulenburg in thinking that anaesthesia is more frequent in sciatica than in other neuralgias.
As we see, sudden and profound anaesthesia is an excellent means of enabling the Lampyris to attain his object, which is to consume his prey in perfect quiet.
We have now a humble little animal that first produces complete anaesthesia in its patient.
He always yelled before falling into an ecstasy, afterwards, he was so much under the dominion of anaesthesia that hot coals, if applied to his body, produced no effect.
Local Anaesthesia by the Hydrochlorate of Cocaine.
There appeared to be at no time any decided loss of painful sensibility, and the operation was finally performed under the anaesthesia of sulphuric ether.
No methodical examination for areas of anaesthesia or paraesthesia, signs which occur so frequently in connection with beriberi, has been carried out in scurvy.
The feature which differentiates it sharply from scurvy, however, is an anaesthesia of the extremities.
We shall have to depend on the involvement of the gums and the hemorrhages in scurvy, and on the hyperaesthesia, paraesthesia, and anaesthesia in beriberi; marked edema points to the latter disease.
A young man had been reduced by disease to such a condition of general anaesthesia that the right eye and the left ear were the only remaining paths of sensation between his brain and the external world.
One of the most striking characteristics of maniacal patients is the anaesthesia that often develops and is maintained in spite of the most serious injury.
But the practice of anaesthesia never became general, and surgeons appear to have usually regarded it with disfavour.
The artificial induction of anaesthesia has come to occupy a foremost place in modern medicine, but there is abundant evidence to show that it is a practice of great antiquity.
In diseases of the brain or spinal cord anaesthesia is an occasional symptom, but in such cases it is usually limited in extent, involving a limb or a definite area of the body's surface.
Morton, a dentist of Boston, employed the vapour of ether to procure general anaesthesia in a case of tooth-extraction, and thereafter administered it in cases requiring surgical operation with complete success.
The principle involved in spinal anaesthesia is this: that a substance in solution is injected into the sac containing the spinal cord in the lumbar region.
It is very doubtful whether local anaesthesia will ever replace general in the latter class.
Sir James Simpson was the first to apply anaesthesia by ether to midwifery practice; this he did in 1847, and found that the pains of labour could be abolished without interference with uterine contractions or injury to the child.
The chief methods of bringing about local anaesthesia are as follows:-- (1) Painting or spraying a solution of the drugs on to the area on which it is proposed to operate.
Complete anaesthesia occurs in a state of catalepsy or trance-- conditions associated with no definite lesion of the nervous system.
Finally, a large number of operations have been performed under a local anaesthesia produced by hypnotism (q.
Anaesthesia of the left eye may be suggested, and the subject be instructed to fix his gaze on a distant point and to give some signal as soon as he sees the operator's finger in the peripheral field of view.
In other cases, the anaesthesia is relative or it may be partial, certain forms of sensation remaining intact.
Anaesthesia is almost always accompanied by an inability to recognize the exact position of the affected limb when the eyes are closed.
Anaesthesia of one eye may be suggested and its reality tested in the following way.
The result of our studies has been to bring back the diverse phenomena of automatism to their essential conditions--most of these phenomena depend upon a state of anaesthesia or abstraction.
Anaesthesia is observed only in the hand and arm holding the pencil.
Anaesthesia by ether is said to compare favourably with that produced by chloroform.
There was anaesthesia of the body, and the movement of the limbs was sluggish and difficult.
There is complete anaesthesia of the whole body, and death occurs through paralysis of the respiratory centre, but artificial respiration fails to restore life.
This confirms the dictum of Billroth, that in all stages of anaesthesia by chloroform, death may occur.
In the severer cases there were tetanic spasms, muscular tremors, and anaesthesia of the fingers and toes.
Anaesthesia of portions of the skin is generally present in a greater or less degree.
The stage of depression begins with a more or less pronouncedanaesthesia of the skin.
There is also very commonly anaesthesia of the fingers and toes, and later of the extremities, of the back, and even of the tongue.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "anaesthesia" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
