The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1855-01-17
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From TIE ". Y. Evening Post.
Dangers Of Using Ether and Chloros
form-Extraordinary Revelations of
Dentists-Sympathy for DR., Beale.

Last evening, pursuant to notice,
meeting took place at the Academy,
(Bond streeD of the Dental Profession of
New York and its vicinity. Dr. Solyman
Brown occupied the chair Mr.. c. S. Put
nam otiiciated us secretary. There were
about forty gentlemen present, embracing
the leading dentists Of this city and the
neighboring cities of Brooklyn, Williams.
burg, and jersey city. The recent sem
tence Of one Of their brethren in Philadel.
phia to long term of ignomnious i'm.
prisonment gave a direction to their de-
lloeratlonS, and an earnestness not COM
mon to the deliberations of scientific bo.
dies.
The president announced that the gen.
tlemen would be heard in alphabetical or
der, and first called the name of Allen.
Dr.ALLEN, Of Bond street, rose and sta.
ted that the object of the meeting was to
collect facts from gentlemen in the active
practice of their profession, drawn from
their personal experience, and illustrative
of the effects of the two great anesthetic
agents, ether and Chloroiorn upon the
human system. He stated that his OBJ
servation had been limited. He had seen
the operation of ether in about twenty
cases. lie had always regarded it as q
dangerous agent, and invariably represen-
| ted to his patients that the insensibility
thus produced was too much for so little;
that the extraction OF a tooth was an OPP
Grafton not sufficiently important to re-
qulre eithe ether or chloroform. He had
observed that the patient would frequent
| ly insist that the tooth removed under
tue II fiuence Of ether was not out, aud
nothing but feeling the cavity or seeing
the tooth convince them to the contrary.
lie reco!'ccted the case Of ayoung gentle
men from Virginia, to whom ether vas
administered. After the tooth was re.
moved, he sprang from the chair vocifera.
ting for brandy and while still under the
influence Of the ether, went into the h all
closet in search of brandy. In short
time the effect of the anasthetic agent
passed off and with it his violent demands
for spirit.
Dr. BUnRAs, of Oliver street, in rela-
ting his experience, commenced by re-
marking that on the first promulgation of
the powers of ether, he seized on the REM
cd with avdity as being specially adap-
ted to relieve the pain of the extraction
Of teeth. As an exhilirant, he had known
its use since 1927, heiug employed as
such by Dr. John Tolly. On the discov-
cry Of chloric ether, he had tried it on a
sister. He asked her to inhale it, not
deeming the experiment injurious. She
very speedily manifested its peculiar a.
gency, placed her brothers hat on her
head, put on his coat, and nursed the sofa
pillows on her lap, completely forgetting
all she had done when she became retion-
al and conscious. Upan an aged lady at
that time he had tried it, with a view to
tranquize, her nervous system, and it's
system, and its effect upon her was so de-
Ilcious 'hat she thought "every poor man
ought to possess a bottle" of it.
The doctor then began to use it upon
his dental patients. Ilehad always used
it with caution. One stubborn case oc-
cured in 1916. 4 gentleman came TO
have some stumps of teeth extracted pre-
viously to their replacement by an artifi-
cial set. He soon became sufficiently uu-
conscious. In this state seven were re-
moved. After the removal of the fifth he
jumped up, became so outrageously vio-
lent that the operators wife, with her in
FAINT in her arms, came up stairs in alarm.
Thinking the patient might unconsciously
hurt bis wife, the doctor pushed her from
the room, and locked himself in. Hc
succeeded in throwing the gentleman on
the sofa, who, while there, beloved and
halioed most furiously, splitting blood in
every direction, and exclaiming ave got
you now, Bill Brookes." On the effect
of the ether passing away the patient said
that he had imaginedhe was at his home
at Portchester, that, "Biii" was robbing
his money drawer. When he seemed a.
ble to bear it, the doctor gave him sec
ond dose, and extracted the remaining
stumps.
The doctor told also ola young lady,
r who insisted on his using chloroform in
, her case. lie demurred she applied else.
/ where, and lastly to him, insisting on its
/ employment. lie gave It to her. After
extracting the tooth, he laid aside the in
strumeut, and, with view to her restor-
: alton to consciousness, slightly pulled in
her face. She soon came round aud said,
doctor, it was cruel in you to slap nae in
the tace so hard as that: was perfectly
conscious when you did it." Fortunately
E another lady, her companion, was present.
: why, Louise, the doctor did no such
d thing"
The patient still persisted and asked
i for the mirror, to see how her face was
. Redeemed by the blow, saying, Il don's
= know what occasion you could have oi
O sapping me-" Ultimately che was paci.
q fed by the idea that perhaps the extrac.
tion Of the tooth produced that erroneous
d impression.
'e DIR. ALLEN also mentioned case which
fell under his notice, in Cincinnati, of q
II married lady who, being in good health
walked mile and y half TO have sewers