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Title: Journal of radiology
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Radiological Society of North America American College of Radiology and Physiotherapy
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Publisher: Omaha, Neb., : (Radiological Pub. Co.)
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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in the lowerdescending colon is first carriedout by combined peristalsis andpressure of abdominal muscles;the remainder of the material isthen spread into the evacuatedregion, and this region is againcleared. In normal life the newfood arriving in the colon mustforce forward the old contents ofthe ascending and transversecolon. 9. Observations have revealedno evidence of antiperistalsis inthe small intestine, but, since theileocaecal valve will allow nu-trient material under pressure topass backward, the antiperistalsisof the large intestine may forceinto the small intestine a consid-erable portion of a large nutrientenema. Segmentation in thesmall intestine affects such anenema precisely as it affects foodpassed normally through thestomach. 10. Signs of emotion, such asfear, distress, or rage, are ac-companied by a total cessation ofmovements of both large andsmall intestines. The movementscontinue in the cat both duringsleep and at night. y, Boston, 1901-2, vi. 251.) Page Thirty-six
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Dr. Morton at 24 years ofRoom of Massachusetts T^HE use of ether as an anes-thetic has become such a com-mon and general daily occurrencethat it scarcely seems possiblethat this use is but 75 years oldthe 16th of this coming October.Before that time ether was notunknown. The story is that atthat time there was hardly agathering of young people which Page Thirty-seven Picture hangs in EtherGeneral Hospital, Boston. did not end with an EtherFrolic; the girls and boys fin-ishing the evening by inhalingether,—some would laugh, somecry, some fight and some dance.On one occasion when they hadexhausted their own possibilitiesthey haled a negro boy who waspeeping through the door andwhile he fought and struggled, ETHER AS AN they etherized him into insensi-bility. When he lay quiet andunconscious his tormentors be-came thoroughly panic strickenand sent for Dr. Long. But aswe should now expect, the vic-tim soon came to himself, nonethe worse for his mishandling. It was not until 1846 that th

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