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.

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    PREFACE. In the following pages, with some general reflections on collateral subjects, I have endeavored to present a condensed s ummary of the medical properties aDd applications of nitrous oxide as determined by a series of observations from time to time during a period of about sixteen years. These are neces- sarily incomplete and to a certain extent inconclusive, yet hoped they are sufficiently impressive to attract attention and induce more enlarged effort to determine the sanitive value of this remarkable agent and extend its sphere of usefulness in the preservation of life, promotion of health, and the relief of disease. Hence a close scrutiny of the facts presented and ideas advanced, and a liberal examination of the sanitive qual- ities of protoxide of nitrogen are particularly invited, believ- ing that a more extended and thorough investigation of its properties will not only confirm the statements herein made and enable physicians to attain a greater degree of success in the amelioration of the ills of life, but will otherwise result in great good to the medical profession, and humanity at large. G. J. Z. Philadelphia, July 15th, 1865.