[PDF] Chloroform The Best Of Anaesthetics Classic Reprint eBook

Author : Julian John Chisolm
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 36,54 MB
Release : 2015-07-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781331198833

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Excerpt from Chloroform, the Best of Anaesthetics Surgeons in all parts of the world have been much exercised of late over this most important subject, and a question of greater interest to suffering humanity it would be difficult to frame. For the past forty years anaesthetics have been in use, and millions who have been operated upon under their benign influences attest the inestimable value of this greatest of modern discoveries. Ether, although the first introduced, had made but little headway when Simpson, in 1847, gave chloroform to the world. It met with immediate acceptance from professional men; and within a very few years there was scarcely a surgeon of note in either hemisphere who had not used it, and extolled it in the strongest expressions of his mother tongue. From its universal adoption, the inhalation of chloroform became the precursor of every serious operation; those who enjoyed with it quiet sleep, and who without it would have experienced intense suffering, were soon numbered by hundreds of thousands. Ever-recurring wars, with thousands of wounded, gave surgeons an opportunity of using chloroform on a very large scale, which only added to the well-deserved reputation which it seemed to have enjoyed from its very introduction. There was but one single alloy in this general jubilee. Now and then some patient would die when chloroform had been inhaled. In former times such fatal accidents on the operating table were common enough to every surgeon of large experience; but now, since the introduction of chloroform, there was an uncomfortable suspicion that in some way the inhalation was to be blamed for these fatalities; for under its life-saving influences nobody ought to die. With this impression once excited, each accident, as reported and copied from journal to journal and from newspaper to newspaper, frightened the public, and slowly undermined the confidence which surgeons had previously had in this anaesthetic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Author : John Snow
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Page : 534 pages
File Size : 20,39 MB
Release : 2015-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781331148050

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Excerpt from On Chloroform and Other Anaesthetics: Their Action and Administration The book here presented to the reader is the legacy to science of Dr. John Snow. The completion of the work was his last act and deed. In editing the book, therefore, all that remained to be done consisted in the construction of the index, and in this a plan suggested by the author himself has been followed. In contributing the memoir, I have performed a painful and unexpected duty: the fulfilment of a promise given at a moment when two friends who often enjoyed close companionship met at one of their happiest meetings. The promise was given with the idea of fulfilment far distant, or improbable altogether, and, as connected with a more extended biographical survey, reserved for the work of years long in the future; it is called for now hastily and in deep sorrow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Arthur Ernest Sansom
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 34,16 MB
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780265400067

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Excerpt from Chloroform: Its Action and Administration I have endeavored in the following pages to pre sent a brief resume of our present knowledge con cerning chloroform and its effects. The subject is so important that it cannot need apology; the apol ogy must be for the Author. My medical education commenced at a [time when the vastness of the boon conferred by the discovery of the anaesthetic was just beginning to assert itself, and I was associated frequently with the late Dr. Snow, whose name is everywhere known in connec tion with the subject. For a considerable time also I was in the habit of administering chloroform at King's College Hospital, as well as in the practice of Mr. Fergusson and other friends (to whom I am anxious to express my obligations). Hence I have felt a real and practical interest in the matter of which this book treats. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Alfred Goodman Levy
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 49,93 MB
Release : 2017-11-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780331917703

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Excerpt from Sudden Death Under Light Chloroform Anaesthesia These percentage terms will be more readily appreciated by those who have employed percentage inhalers. I may add that it is difficult to obtain so much as 4 per cent. Of vapour from an ordinary open mask - is, a mask which is not in contact with the face. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Julian John Chisolm
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 20,93 MB
Release : 2014-02
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ISBN : 9781295757008

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Author : Julian John 1830-1903 Chisolm
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Page : 40 pages
File Size : 36,87 MB
Release : 2015-02-15
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ISBN : 9781297033995

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