Carson and Willis sat on the edge of the operating table, evidently still partially under the effects of the anesthetic that had been administered to them.
The psychological mechanism by which an anesthetic vagina leads to a feeling of repulsion for normal coitus and normal sexual organs, and directs the sexual feelings toward more infantile forms of sexuality, is here not difficult to trace.
Hegar gives 50 per cent, as the proportion of sexually anesthetic women; Fürbringer says the majority of women are so.
Up to the age of 31 we should certainly have been forced to conclude that this woman was sexually anesthetic to an almost absolute degree.
To quote: The only local anesthetic that produces edema and sloughing is quinin and urea hydrochlorid.
The claim would lead the physician to think that Apothesine had the same anesthetic potency as cocain in solution of equal strength.
The local anesthetic ethyl paraminobenzoate was first introduced as “Anesthesin” or “Anæsthesin.
To the Editor:--I have been waiting for some reference to the new anesthetic referred to in the enclosed clipping, but if any has been made in the medical press I have failed to notice it.
It is less toxic than cocain, but its anesthetic action is not sustained.
One of the claims was that Apothesine is applicable in any case in which any other localanesthetic is used.
She began to feel that it would be much better if she did not have an anesthetic at all, and superintended the whole business herself intelligently.
In the city when the gnawing gets too awful there's always an anesthetic in the nearest pub.
In these wars, too, the value of chloroform as an anesthetic agent in military surgery has been fully established.
The first opportunity of testing chloroform largely as an anesthetic agent in British military surgery occurred in the Crimean war, and a long report on the subject will be found in the published Surgical History of the Campaign.
There had been gunmen and gangmen in New York for years, we knew, but this fellow seemed to be the last word, with his liquid bullets, his anesthetic shells and his stupefying gun.
The anesthetic bullet provides the poor marksman with all the advantages of the expert gunman of unerring aim.
That bullet is what is known as an anesthetic bullet.
It is now only sixty-nine years since Simpson first employed anesthetic in obstetrics, while six years afterwards Queen Victoria gave her seal of approval to the use of chloroform in labor cases.
On the other hand, in a multipara who has had three or four children, whose soft parts are relaxed and who has short labors, the anesthetic of choice would be a few whiffs of chloroform as the head passes over the perineum.
In a normal confinement, however, when the pains are particularly severe and the progress slow, there is no medical reason why an anesthetic could not be given to ease the pain.
Sufficient anesthetic to dull each pain is all that is necessary, and as this can be accomplished with absolute safety by the use of an anesthetic mixture of alcohol, ether and chloroform, there can be no possible objection to it.
If an anestheticis to be used these are the pains that call for it.
As to the wisdom of giving an anesthetic when labor is progressing in a normal and satisfactory manner, there is a difference of opinion.
The same applies to using any anesthetic gas or drug to render him unconscious.
The same applied to anesthetic gases, or electric shock, or supersonics.
From the book of Guy de Chauliac we can gather a very important fact, which is worth mentioning here; that is to say, that some surgeons of that period made use already of anesthetic inhalations, especially for amputations.
Indeed, it takes a more than ordinary amount of philosophy to know that one has shown a lack of taste or delicacy even under the effects of an anesthetic or an intoxicant, without suffering from mortification and shame.
But if you need any anesthetic to keep it out of pain while you're waiting, I'll lend you my bag.
It probably is for this reason that a host of claimants for the honor of the discovery appeared so soon as the true anesthetic properties of the drug were demonstrated.
At this time the nature of the anesthetic agent was kept a secret, the vapor of ether being disguised by aromatics, so as not to be recognized by anyone present.
Simpson's position was such as to give the new anesthetic every advantage that his already great reputation could attach to it, and it became at once the agent in common use in midwifery practice.
Horace Wells did not make any discovery of the anesthetic properties of the vapor of ether which he himself considered reliable and which he thought proper to give to the world.
It is well known that nearly all of the ethers have more or less of anesthetic property, coupled with many dangers and disadvantages.
He at once called upon a neighboring dentist friend and made arrangements to test the anesthetic effects of the gas upon himself the next morning.
It is scarcely necessary that I delay you now with an account of all of the other ethereal anesthetic agents which have from time to time been advocated since the memorable days to which I have devoted most of my time to-night.
That his experiments were confined to nitrous oxide, but did not show it to be an efficient and reliable anesthetic agent.
In January of 1853, Morton demonstrated at the infirmary in Washington, before a congressional committee and others, the anesthetic effect of ether, which he continued through a dangerous and protracted surgical operation.
By using a local anesthetic on the plantar nerves and confining the subject on an operating table, restraint should be perfect.
An anesthetic solution of cocain or novocain may be applied to the metacarpal or metatarsal nerves and an entirely satisfactory examination is then possible.
This can be done in a few minutes with a local anesthetic and the patient frequently goes to sleep afterward, almost free from pain.
As the head of the child emerges, the anesthetic should be pushed, or the woman told to open her mouth and cry out.
It is now that an anesthetic may be used to relieve the suffering.
Of course if the forceps must be used when the head is high up a greater amount of anesthetic is needed.
The patient is put under an anesthetic and placed on his back with the hips (pelvis) raised and the thigh of the affected side flexed, bent up and rotated inward if the rupture be inguinal or femoral.
Gradual stretching is done when an anesthetic cannot be used.
For since nitrous oxid owes its anesthetic effect to its influence upon oxidation, we may infer that sleep also retards the oxidation of the cell contents.
Assuming that no unfavorable effect is produced by the anestheticand that there is no hemorrhage, the cells of the brain cannot be exhausted in the course of a surgical operation except by fear or by trauma, or by both.
One of the most noticeable immediate effects of the administration of an inhalation anesthetic is a marked increase in the rapidity and force of the respiration.
The discovery of the anesthetic properties of ether and its practical application to surgery must always stand as one of the great achievements of medicine.
The cause of the exhaustion of the brain is the discharge of nervous energy in a futile effort to energize the paralyzed muscles in an attempt to escape from the injury just as if no anesthetic had been given.
To the left a door leads into the Anesthetic Room.
I was not to be given the usual anesthetic, because my heart had been cutting up some didos, so I must take a local anesthetic which Was to be administered by a very celebrated Frenchman.
The local anestheticconsists of morphine and scopolamin.
Then,” declared Bolt, “the two attendants who have disappeared injected the anesthetic I have already referred to through the keyhole of the door.
I tell you,” almost shouted Bolt, “that I was stupefied by the injection of chloroform or some other anesthetic into the room!
Most of my experience with this is in an anesthetic situation with patients coming into the hospital, having sustained gunshot injuries, most of them are injured with low velocity missiles, smaller caliber--.
Upon repair of the lobe it expanded well upon pressure on the anesthetic bag with very little in the way of peripheral leak.
Chloroform was described as a usefulanesthetic by Dr.
Flourens, of Paris, in 1847, the year in which Sir James Simpson introduced ether as an anesthetic in obstetric practice.
As a rule, a dislocation should be reduced as soon as the diagnosis is made, and, if necessary, an anesthetic should be administered.
No one local anesthetic can be exclusively relied upon to fulfill all of these requirements at all times.
For the above reason many operators prefer a general anesthetic or one of the local anesthetic drugs which exert no constrictor action so that they may know, ab initio, the exact degree of bleeding.
An anesthetic should be given during the application of the cast, the foot being held flexed at right angles and sheet wadding freely used around the ankle.
They, however, are indicated where it is imperative to secure primary union and when for some reason no other local anesthetic is available.
The subject of an anesthetic should not be purged or starved as these are weakening processes and also disturb the tranquility so essential to a perfect anesthesia.
A white, odorless, crystalline powder; employed as a localanesthetic and antiseptic in burns, ulcers, etc.
The instruments should be prepared and ready before the anesthetic is given, regardless of the form of anesthesia employed.
In the medical point of view," he remarks, "the number of cases in which local anesthetic applications may be employed, is truly immense.
Local anesthetic properties belong to all the agents in which the general have been found.
Aran submitted a Memoir, which seems to be quite important, on local anesthetic medication.
Underwood grinned up at her as the anesthetic was injected.
Mom stationed herself near my head, over which she gazed as the doctor applied a local anesthetic to deaden the area.
I was then given a local anesthetic and braced myself, recalling that the pain killer did little during the bone marrow test.
A general anesthetic is used only in exceptional cases.
He attempted to kill me when I approached him, and it was necessary to open a bottle of chloroform and stand at a safe distance and throw the anesthetic in his face and eyes.
In practically all cases a local anesthetic is used.
The patient suffers very slight inconvenience; the local anesthetic is enough to dull the pain even of the breaking down of the adhesions, so that it is at its worst no more than the pain of a toothache, and lasts a very brief while.
