Local anaesthetics and cocaine analgaesia : their uses and limitations / by Thomas H. Manley.

  • Manley, Thomas H. (Thomas Henry), 1851-1905.
Date:
1894
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Credit: Local anaesthetics and cocaine analgaesia : their uses and limitations / by Thomas H. Manley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    C H A P T ER XXVI. MIXED ANESTHESIA, OR THE EMPLOYMENT OF PULMONARY-ANESTHETICS AS AN ACCESSORY IN LOCAL ANALGESICS. With all our cases, in which, we propose to employ local- anaesthetics, it is important to deliberate carefully, on the leading features of the operation, about to be undertaken, the difficulties and dangers which may attend it, and the time which it will consume in its performance; besides, we should endeavor to gauge our patients susceptibility. If they are of the irritable, cranky, faultfinding class, the practitioner will act with the best judgment, if he takes no chances, and admin- sters to the patient such an anaesthetic, as his friends prefer. Cocaine is chiefly recommended, as a substitute for pul- monary-anaesthetics, because, it is a life-saving agent, and be- cause in a vast number of very painful, but trifling conditions, from an operative stand-point; it enables us to painlessly explore and treat them, without putting the patient's life in jeopardy, as we do. every time anaesthesia is carried to full coma. Now, if one is so unreasonable, as to loudly complain of the pain of a hypodermic-puncture, then, we should not in- —175—