Researches on the medical properties and applications of nitrous oxide, protoxide of nitrogen, or laughing gas / By Geo. J. Ziegler.

  • Ziegler, George J. (George Jacob), 1821-1895.
Date:
1865
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Credit: Researches on the medical properties and applications of nitrous oxide, protoxide of nitrogen, or laughing gas / By Geo. J. Ziegler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    MEDICAL PROPERTIES AND APPLICATIONS OP PROTOXIDE OF NITROGEN, NITROUS OXIDE, OR LAUGHING GAS. INTRODUCTORY. Notwithstanding the present activity in the search for new remedies and the manifest desire to discover such as are both conservative in character and efficient in action, attention appears to be still too exclusively concentrated upon those agents which are more purely medicinal in their nature rather than upon such as have a direct physiological compatibility with the vital organ- ism. The undue tendency in this direction has of recent years, however, been materially modified in consequence of a better appreciation of the general laws and cor- relations of physiology, pathology, hygiene, and thera- peutics. With this increased knowledge of medical science a more philosophical conception of the inherent nature and biological attributes of remedies has been acquired whereby it has become apparent that those agents which either subserve the immediate purpose of supplying