Volume 1

Account of a new anaesthetic agent, as a substitute for sulphuric ether in surgery and midwifery / [Sir James Young Simpson].

  • Simpson, James Young, 1811-1870
Date:
1847
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Account of a new anaesthetic agent, as a substitute for sulphuric ether in surgery and midwifery / [Sir James Young Simpson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the suffering of pain was given. He still slept on soundly, and was carried back to his ward in that state. Half an hour afterwards, he was found in bed, like a child newly awakened from a refreshing sleep, with a clear merry eye, and placid expression of countenance, wholly unlike what is found to obtain after ordinary etherization. On being questioned by a Gaelic interpreter who was found among the stu- dents, he stated that he had never felt any pain, and that he felt nonenow. On being shown his wounded arm, he looked much surprised, but neither cried nor otherwise expressed the slightest alarm.” Case [i.—*“ A soldier who had an opening in the cheek—the result: of) exfoliation of the .jaw—was next made to inhale. At first he showed some signs of moving his hands too freely ; but soon also fell into a state of sleep and snoring. A free incision was made across the lower jaw, and from. this: the dense adhering integuments were freely dissected all round, so as to raise the soft parts: of the cheek, The edges of the opening were then’ made raw, and the whole line of incision was brought together by several points of suture. This patient had previously undergone’ two minor operations of a somewhat similar kind ; both of them had proved unsuccessful, and he bore them very ill—proving wnusually wn-