Artificial anaesthesia and anaesthetics . he patient was expected to hold his own nose, or perhaps the operatormight volunteer that gentle service. The sensation of suffocation thus produced was anything but difficulty has always been experienced in securing a uniform adapta-tion of the same mouth-piece to different countenances. For obvious rea-sons, an inflexible inhaler that happened to fit the cheeks of a youthfulmaiden in her prime, would not be very likely to exclude the external airwhen pressed against the emaciated features of a bearded invalid. iS: Shurt
Artificial anaesthesia and anaesthetics . he patient was expected to hold his own nose, or perhaps the operatormight volunteer that gentle service. The sensation of suffocation thus produced was anything but difficulty has always been experienced in securing a uniform adapta-tion of the same mouth-piece to different countenances. For obvious rea-sons, an inflexible inhaler that happened to fit the cheeks of a youthfulmaiden in her prime, would not be very likely to exclude the external airwhen pressed against the emaciated features of a bearded invalid. iS: Shurtleft, the ingenious instrument-makers in Boston, have suc-ceeded m producing a piece of apparatus which surniouuts all these difficul-ties in a manner more effectual than the similar attempts of any other in-strument of this sort (see Figs. 1, 2, and 3, pp. 43 and 44) NITUOUS OXIDE INHALERS. 43 Tlie figure on i^age 44 reiireseiits this inlmler witli the ether-reservoirattached in place of the gas-tube leading to the gasometer for nitrous. Early Method of Adaiinibtering Nitrous Oxide (Kotteuoteiu). oxide gas. The ether is poured through the opening G, upon a sponge orjnece of lint placed in the reservoir F. The simplicdty and cleanliness ofthis apparatus must commend it to aU who ai-e obliged to resort to the use
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