Lectures on general anaesthetics in dentistry : advocating painless dental operations by the use of nitrous oxid, nitrous oxid and oxygen, chloroform, ether, ethyl chloride and somnoform / by William Harper De Ford.

  • De Ford, William Harper, 1858-
Date:
1912
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Credit: Lectures on general anaesthetics in dentistry : advocating painless dental operations by the use of nitrous oxid, nitrous oxid and oxygen, chloroform, ether, ethyl chloride and somnoform / by William Harper De Ford. 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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    lowed. Subsequently, the fragments were coughed up from the hings and the patient made a good recovery. A case is also mentioned in the Dublin Medical and Chemical Journal, in which the roots of a lower molar entered the right bronchus after extraction. Death supervened in eleven days. Another case is reported in the Edinborough Jour- nal, in which an entire lower molar entered the lung. It was coughed up on the eleventh day and the patient recovered. In the British Journal of Dental Science, January, 1879, a case is related in which a large amalgam fillmg shot from a tooth during extraction under nitrous oxid, and presumably entered the larynx. Fortunately the patient coughed it out immediately after the effects of the anaesthetic had passed off. In a case referred to in the British Medical Journal, February, 1899, an extracted tooth entered the larynx during nitrous oxid anaesthesia, causing extreme cyan- osis. Subsequently there was a feeling of tightness in the throat, aggravated by speaking or by change of posture. No breath sounds were audible over the left lung. Death took place in twelve days. At the ne- cropsy the tooth was found in the left bronchus. A case has lately been reported to the author in which a medical man, while sponging out the throat during a dental operation under ether, inadvertently pushed an extracted tooth backwards. It was hoped that the patient had swallowed the tooth. For three weeks she suffered from certain chest symptomSv which she ascribed to the anaesthetic. At the end of this