As nitrous oxide in its extensive operation appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably be used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place... The North British Review - Page 1471847Full view - About this book
| American periodicals - 1880 - 820 pages
...guesses about probable medicinal uses of inhalation of gases, he wrote, near the end of his essay : " As nitrous oxide in its extensive operation appears...in which no great effusion of blood takes place." It seems strange that no one caught at a suggestion such as this. True, the evidence on which it was... | |
| 1880 - 100 pages
...or guesses about probable medical uses of inhalation of gases, he wrote, near the end of his essay: "As nitrous oxide in its extensive operation appears...in which no great effusion of blood takes place." It seems strange that no one caught at a suggestion such as this. Yet no one earnestly regarded it.... | |
| 1880 - 572 pages
...chirurgischen Anästhesie denkwürdigen Worte nieder: „As nitrous oxide in its expensive Operation seems capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably...in which no great effusion of blood takes place." Die Versuche Davy's wurden in England und auch auf dem Continent, wie es scheint, mit wechselndem Erfolg... | |
| Henry Munson Lyman - 1881 - 366 pages
...recorded his opinion in the following words : " As nitrous oxide, in its extensive operation, seems capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably be used with advantage in surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place." The essay which contained... | |
| Medicine - 1899 - 842 pages
...Davy, as we learn from a letter to Mr. Davies Gilbert, made his celebrated statement: "As nitrous oxid in its extensive operation appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably be used wiih advantage during surgical operations." Wordsworth, Southey, Coleridge, the younger Priestly, James... | |
| S. H. Linn - Dental hygiene - 1882 - 150 pages
...oxide in its extensive operations seems capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably be used to advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place." After numerous trials, the process now universally employed was devised ; it consists in decomposing... | |
| Philip Freeman - 1883 - 80 pages
...makes use of the following remarkable words: — "As nitrous oxide in its extensive operation seems capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably be used with advantage in operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place. ' ' This noteworthy observation produced... | |
| James Parton - Biography - 1883 - 860 pages
...this gas, he used the following language : — " As nitrous oxide (another name for the same gas), in its extensive operation, appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probnlily be toted with adaitntaye during KurgiMl operations, in which no great effusion of blood takes... | |
| Thomas Lauder Brunton, Francis Henry Williams - Drugs - 1885 - 1204 pages
...properties of nitrous oxide, regarding which he said, " as nitrous oxide in its extensive operation seems capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably...be used with advantage during surgical operations." The property of this gas and also of ether vapour to produce excitement when inhaled, caused these... | |
| Simeon Hayden Guilford - Anesthesia - 1887 - 114 pages
...by Dr. Horace Wells, in 1844. Davy suggested that " as nitrous oxide, in its extensive operations, appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may...in which no great effusion of blood takes place." From 1800, when the above prophetic suggestion was made, up to the time of its introduction as an anesthetic,... | |
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