Manual of dental surgery and pathology . -; when lo! a patient diedsuddenly under its influence: because they do not know howto give it, remarked one whose great experience had led himto a rash confidence in himself; but a few days had scarcelypassed when the like sad event occurred under his own reaction now set in, and, as might be expected, strongerthan was warranted; some medical authorities refusing almostentirely to sanction its use in any case. Other compoundswere carefully investigated, mixtures of chloroform and ether, 21. B. W. Ither-spray ap-paratus. By means
Manual of dental surgery and pathology . -; when lo! a patient diedsuddenly under its influence: because they do not know howto give it, remarked one whose great experience had led himto a rash confidence in himself; but a few days had scarcelypassed when the like sad event occurred under his own reaction now set in, and, as might be expected, strongerthan was warranted; some medical authorities refusing almostentirely to sanction its use in any case. Other compoundswere carefully investigated, mixtures of chloroform and ether, 21. B. W. Ither-spray ap-paratus. By means of a hand oi footbellows air is forced into a graduatedjar containini^ very highly rectifiedether, which is projected from a finejet in the form of a spray, and thisevaporating rapidly produces intensecold. In the drawing above is shownWelshs tongue or cheek holder at-tached to the jet-piece. 322 MANUAL OF DENTAL SURGERY AND PATHOLOGY. chloroform and alcohol, or the three together, were tried, butwith little better results, while some few reverted to ether,which had never been wholl}^ discarded. The idea of produc-ing local anre^thesia naturally occupied the minds of many. Afrozen part is painless, and Arnott froze small tumors with amixture of ice and salt. Teeth were frozen in their sockets, byan ingenious apparatus devised by W. Blundell, a dentist, andremoved without painful sensation. [Dr. Branch, of Chicago,is mentioned by some as the inventor of a similar apparatus forusing pulverized ice and salt. The danger of producing f
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