A text-book of practical therapeutics . Fig. 43.—Ether produces anesthesia by depressing the perceptive areas in thebrain, A. Later it depresses the intellectual areas, B, and the motor areas, C. Afterthis the sensory paths in the spinal cord are depressed, D, and finally the motor tractsin the cord, E. in the earlier stages the struggles of the second stage prevent anyoperative procedures. (See Therapeutics, below.) It is not properto push the drug until the muscular relaxation amounts to completeflaccidity, as this endangers the respiration. Nekvous System.—In producing its effects, ether ac
A text-book of practical therapeutics . Fig. 43.—Ether produces anesthesia by depressing the perceptive areas in thebrain, A. Later it depresses the intellectual areas, B, and the motor areas, C. Afterthis the sensory paths in the spinal cord are depressed, D, and finally the motor tractsin the cord, E. in the earlier stages the struggles of the second stage prevent anyoperative procedures. (See Therapeutics, below.) It is not properto push the drug until the muscular relaxation amounts to completeflaccidity, as this endangers the respiration. Nekvous System.—In producing its effects, ether acts first onthe brain, then on the sensory tracts of the spinal cord, then on themotor tracts, then on the sensory side of the medulla oblongata, andfinally upon the motor side of the medulla, and thereby producesdeath from respiratory failure if given to excess. Upon the nervetrunks it exerts no effect unless it is directly applied to them. Etherdoes not produce anesthesia by influencing the blood, coagulating theprotoplasm of the
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