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Identifier: medicalsurgicalr13bost (find matches)
Title: Medical and surgical reports
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Boston City Hospital
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Publisher: Boston
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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The apparatus consists of a double bulb and rubber tube such as is used with a Paquelin cautery (1) ; a 12-oz. glass bottle fitted with a cork and glass tubes (2) ; a rubber tube
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of such length as will conveniently reach from the bottle to the patient's face (3) ; a short piece of glass tube (4) to connect (3) ; a piece of fairly heavy, moderately flexible copper wire (5) ; several rubber rings (6) (narrow sections cut from the end of tube (3) and used to fasten (3) to wire (5)). These are combined in the manner shown in figure. To use this apparatus the bottle is partly (about one-third) filled with ether. At the proper time the patient's end of the delivery tube (3) (previously sterilized) is connected with the other portion of the apparatus by means of the glass tube (4). The wire (5) supporting the delivery tube (3) is so bent that the ether vapor escaping from it can be directed towards the patients mouth and nostrils without impeding the surgeon in his work, the hand of the etherizer grasping it at the loop, while he stands behind or at the side of the patient. The ether vapor is then forced through the tube (3) from the bottle (2) to the patient's face

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