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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 should be any, to escape. The etherization should thencommence by forcing the ether into the bowel by pressing upon thecautery bulb, and rectal pressure of 20 m.m. Hg. maintained. Aboutevery five minutes the efferent tube should be opened by pressing uponthe automatic clip, which at the same time closes the afferent tube andcuts off the supply of ether and allows the escape of gas. When theanaesthesia is completed, the bowel is emptied of the ether through therectal tube, by massaging the abdomen. Some advise that the colon befilled with oxygen gas after it has been emptied of the superfluous ether 320 INTERSTATE MEDICAL JOURNAL and before the rectal tube is taken out. When the patient is in bed, therectum is again washed out with an S. S. enema, which is repeated in ahalf hour. A strict adherence to this technique will prevent bad symptoms.The following records of cases, sixteen in number, are presented astaken from the anaesthesia records. In this series there are three deaths,
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Fig. IV. Ether generator of perfected apparatus. j. Water jacket, encasing small ether generating chamber,k. Thermometer in water jacket. 1. Ether reservoir from which ether in generating chamber is auto-matically replenished,m. Cover for above. n. Brass tube connecting storage chamber with generating chamber above level of ether,o. Glass tube connecting same below surface of ether,p. Head of spike for perforating seal of ether can on insertion into storage chamber. q. Blind tube extending into water jacket, into which heating bulb s is inserted,r. Faucet for emptying water jacket,s. Tubular incandescent bulb used as heater,z. Cover of ether generating chamber,t. Oxygen inlet to vapor generating chamber,u. Air inlet to vapor generating chamber. v. Clip on by-pass, by opening which pure air or pure oxygen can be passed into gut.w. Spiral wire of vapor generator,x. Connection to afferent tube to gut.y. Manometer. two from surgical shock and one from medullary pressure in a braincase. On

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