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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    opening abscesses, for annulling the pain of dysme- norrhea and of netiralgia, and in two or three cases where I was using deep, and otherwise very painful galvano-puncture for the treatment of ovarian. dropsy, &e. I have employed it also in obstetric practice with entire success. The lady to whom it was first exhibited during. parturition, had been previously delivered in the country by perforation of the head of the infant, after a labour of three days’ duration. In this, her second confinement, pains supervened a fortnight before the full time. Three hours and a-half after they commenced, and, ere the first stage of the labour was completed, I placed her under the influence of the Chloroform, by moistening, with half a tea-spoonful of the liquid, a pocket handkerchief, rolled up into a funnel shape, and with the broad or open end of the funnel placed over her mouth and nostrils. In consequence of the evaporation of the fluid, it was once more renewed in about ten or twelve minutes. The child was expelled in about twenty- five minutes after the inhalation was begun. The mother subsequently remained longer soporose than commonly happens after Ether... The squalling of the child did not, as usual, rouse her; and some minutes elapsed after the placenta was expelled, and after the child was removed by the nurse into another room, be- fore the patient awoke. She then turned round and