The administration of nitrous oxide and oxygen for dental operations / by Frederick W. Hewitt.

  • Hewitt, Frederic W. (Frederic William), Sir, 1857-1916.
Date:
1901
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Credit: The administration of nitrous oxide and oxygen for dental operations / by Frederick W. Hewitt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    Safe and thoroughly efficient anaesthesia for dental operations is of such importance that it behoves every dental practitioner to carefully consider whether he should not abandon the prevalent but comparatively crude and unscientific method of producing insensibility from nitrous oxide and avail himself of the new system. It is true that there are at present some difficulties in the way of this advance, but it is to be hoped that they may soon be sur- mounted. The principal of these undoubtedly is the difficulty of obtaining proficient anaes- thetists. Increased facilities, however, are now being afforded at most hospitals for acquiring experience in administering anaes- thetics, so that there is every reason to believe that in course of time there will not be that dearth, which now exists, of medical men capable of administering nitrous oxide in dental practice. Moreover, I hope to see the day when the immense amount of clinical material which is now being wasted, so to speak, at our dental hospitals, will be utilised, not only for the systematic instruction of dental students who are intending to qualify in medicine, but for that of extraneous students and practitioners. In this way it would be possible to efficiently train medical men in dental anaesthetics, and