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Title: Interstate medical journal
Year: 1909 (1900s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: St. Louis, : Interstate Medical Journal
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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here is involvement of the lungs,as is proven by the case of Dr. Lecompte, of Boston, when a patient,just recovering from lobar pneumonia, was kept under the influence ofether for more than an hour, followed by no bad symptoms; and in myseries of cases where case No. 1, with a tack in the left bronchus and 318 INTERSTATE MEDICAL JOURNAL abscess of the lung, had been anaesthetized three times successfully bythis method and with no bad symptoms following. Another great ad-vantage of the method is absence of post-operative vomiting and intensenausea, which so often follow etherization by the mouth. I believe, from an experience derived from four cases, that rectaletherization is especially applicable to goitre operations, on account ofthe small quantity of ether required, the rapidity of recovery from theeffects of the ether, and the absence of vomiting. Sutton* says he was struck by the advantage offered by rectalanaesthesia in this class of cases, and believed that under favorable con-
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Fig. II. Apparatus for colonic anaesthesia now used at Roosevelt Hospital,a to g. Same as in Fig. I. h. New form of ether vapor generator, mounted on oxygen tank and con- nected at will with either oxygen or atmospheric air. i. Tubular incandescent lamp for maintaining temperature of water bath. ditions it might in time supplant the slower method of cocaine. The apparatus most used is that of Cunningham which, as will beseen from the accompanying cuts, is very simple. The oneI use is Suttons simple apparatus, which was in use at RooseveltHospital until a more elaborate apparatus was substituted. This ap-paratus I have used and found very satisfactory. As muchof the success of rectal anaesthesia depends upon the technique, the ♦Rectal Anaesthesia; Experimental Studies, Together with a Report of ItsPractical Employment at Roosevelt Hospital. N. B. Leggett. Annals ofSurgery, October, 1907. CARSON: RECTAL ANAESTHESIA 319 anaesthetist should study it carefully and see that the patient is

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