The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-08-05


with advantage during surgical operations
| in which no great effusion OF blood takes
place." Precisely, because Dary realized
! no more than this. he did not realize anns-
| thesia by nitrous oxide. The same was the
result with ether.
! In DAVIS time Farady pointed ont that
the inhalation Of the vapor of Sulphuric
! ether produced effects similar to those pro-
| duccd by nitrous oxide. and hcnceforward
the Vapor Of ether was exhibited Mt the lee
, Unreliable side by side with nitrous oxide.
/ The realization of anastbesia by nitrous
oxide was due alone 10 DR.. Horace Wells.
in 1874. and the realization Of anpsthcsia
| wv ether was due tn Morton. in 1876. IT.
was rot till after thirty years Of lectures on
, nitrous oxide and ether that they were
] transferred from the lecturc-room to the
operating theatre.
! An2sthcsia, or the resl;zation Of inscnsi-
b;lity To the pain Of surgical operations.
was never accomplished by nitrous oxide,
| ether. or chlorofnrm. until DIR. Horace
Wells, on December II. 1874, became he
subject of such an operation after inhalinc
nitrous oxide ms.
! As to ether. Or. Morton. never having
! accomplished ar1Sthcsia. called upon Or.
Jackson for the loan of II GaS-bag, and aSk-
oil some advice about the best agent i'm pro-
.
| he use Of ether. DR.. Morton acted upon
his suggestion. and was allowed to admin
! istcr ether for surgical operations on tue
| 10Th of October. 1916. Soon after. other
surgical operations were performed While
the patirut was inscnsibie from the inl1-
| Iaticn az ether, and from that time the use
| Of il spread RAPIDLY over the world.
| The application Of ether for the reiIei OF
! the pans OF childbirth was first made ny
| Sir James simpson. in Edinburgh, on Inc
Ga Of January. 1871.
Mr., S,;,~"a! Guthrie, Of Sockets li3rhor,
Y. Y. appears to ~" CHILLED 10 'ne hnhn'
the discovery chlorofnSn, oo !'''n' a.,.o
ed al account OF it in 1891 under the 49,
OF chloric ether. and gave such accurate
descriptions az Its properties as 10 leave no
doubt about it.
IN the journal Of the College Of Pharmacy
in 1882, Mr.. Daniel Il. Smith, OF Philadcl-
: ptia SAYS Of the new substance: 1.-The ac-
ton of this ether on the liviilg system il in.
tcr"sin". and may hereafter render l. an
Object Of importance III commerce. It's Ill
yor is delicious and its intoxicating quail
ties equal 10 or superior to those Of alcohol.
II is i strong dil'usahe stiIu Hant, similar
to hydrated ether. but more grateful 10 the
taste. Souheran. in France, who discov'
/ cred it about tie same time as Guthrie,
:
r big, vh0 also worked upon il, named il
| /" liquid bichloridc Of carbon
i LIZ the light OF Onr present knowledge
the idea that choroiorm was al ether APP
= pears somewhat strange, as the word ether
| IS derived from the Greek word aetna. Il
burn, and chlnroform Is not combuStihl;
5 substance. there are other scientific differ
: cnces between the two.
G | Chloroiorm is the name given it hy Du
1,yt. al ,,I I.l.,
long before the first case of its Use 70 rcalizj
anu .thesia by simpson, chlor0form wa:
. used for medicinal purposes.
II In 1881 Professor Ives, OF New Haven
= employed chlor"torm ii Il case Of det"icn
| n S,iration. He afterwards established Til
facts in Liilm0n's journal. In the Same
way it was used in France and England.
; nr. simpsons first paper on chIorofprn
: was communicated to the Medico-G hirur9i
} cal Society OF Edinburgh, November 10
= 1917.
| Ia Wells is due the credit Of caus;n:
ianHsthesia by nitrous oxide. and 10 Morton
the same ny ether. So to simpson was dl,
he credit Of realizing il by chloroturn
! either discovered arT;the,la nor The
Ea@ruts which realized it.
Nitrous oxide stands ON 2 very different
base rs an au;uSthetic from the va!,ora Q
ether or chluruiorm, eXcrting neither
| being, in fact. without any such desired in
ilIencc upon The tissues or organs rs ci;hcl
Of the above agencies exert Ill one way Oh
another.
Nitrous oxide cNcGtS no more iDiu: i"il
effect utOn the organs than do its conSiiiu
eats Of oxygen and nitrogen Inhaled III The
atm0s phrrc, while both ether and chl"ro
torn 10 exert one effect or aTGiier uroi
the or9au>-the former, especially, to tht
I g ,.,ti of h,
heart, and htucr Of circulation.
/ ln considering air>hc-ia, therefore. u
either OF these agents. we are 10 c"n*idci
! that by nitrous oxide Is 4 case OF pr;ya:Ior
OF atmospheric mir rather than Of positive
Urgency in tho sense IL winch ciiluroiprln OF
ether arc used.
After The reading Of the report and tht
transaction Of some minor buS'nc :. tilf
Convention adjourned until 4 special SEES
SION for the election Of officers. and iiXuc
the place for tn" next annual mcrtlnS-lhl
ict!ou OF which i sent by telegraph.