. The pathology and treatment of diseases of the ovaries. have devised for the purpose. Anhydrous methylatedether (.720) is placed in the reservoir. A, which will hold about tenounces, and which is furnished with a spring pump, which drivesover about a dram of ether at each stroke into the glass boiler, B. OVARIOTOMY. 267 This boiler is suspended in a hot-water tank, C, beneath whichis a spirit-lamp. From the boiler an exit tube, four or five feetlong, passes to a Junkers mouth-piece. When the apparatus is to be used, the tank is filled withwater, the spirit-lamp is lighted, and about three dr
. The pathology and treatment of diseases of the ovaries. have devised for the purpose. Anhydrous methylatedether (.720) is placed in the reservoir. A, which will hold about tenounces, and which is furnished with a spring pump, which drivesover about a dram of ether at each stroke into the glass boiler, B. OVARIOTOMY. 267 This boiler is suspended in a hot-water tank, C, beneath whichis a spirit-lamp. From the boiler an exit tube, four or five feetlong, passes to a Junkers mouth-piece. When the apparatus is to be used, the tank is filled withwater, the spirit-lamp is lighted, and about three drams of etheris pumped into the boiler. Care must be taken that there is noleakage from the boiler, otherwise there will be an ignition. Itwill soon be found that the boiling ether gives over a large vol-ume of vapor at a constant temperature of a few degrees belowthe boiling-point of the sample, which of course will vary verymuch, but will generally be found to be pretty nearly the tem-perature of expired air, 31°—33° Cels. When given at this tern-. Fig. 32.—Apparatus for the Administration of Etlier-vapor at Blood-lieat in Cases of Old People. perature, and free from air, the vapor is quite pleasant, and itstaste or rather its comparative freedom from taste, reminded mewhen I tried it on myself, greatly of the flavor of nitrous is, of course, certain that its administration will involve norisk of bronchitis. I think this method will be found to be a substantial advancein the method of ether administration for old people; and if carebe taken to keep the boiler vapor-tight, and the mouth-piecethree or four feet away from the spirit flame, I think the appara-tus will be found quite safe. Dr. Lauder Brunton made to methe ingenious suggestion of having a steam-jacket round theboiler, but that I have notfound to be practicable without greatly 268 DISEASES OF THE OVARIES. complicating the apparatus. The use of a hot iron bolt to boil thewater, instead of the lamp, woul
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