Surgical experience of chloroform / by James Miller.

  • Miller, James.
Date:
1848
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Credit: Surgical experience of chloroform / by James Miller. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Lined renal and vesical disease ; or perished, very speedily, under an abortive lithotomv. XXXIII. CHLOROFORM IS A MOST VALUABLE AUXILIARY IN THE TAXIS FOR HERNIA. The former paragraph was a digression, and took us back to the region of operations. Now we return, and find our agent preventive of the knife's use. We praised it highly as an auxiliary in the reduction of dislocated joints. Hernia is a dislocation ; and in the displacement of bowel, chloroform will be found almost as efficient as in displacement of bone. The observations need not be repeated. It saves pain, pro- duces thorough relaxation, does not aggravate the already begun collapse, is perfectly manageable, quickly passes off when no longer wanted, and leaves no untoward effect be- hind. One qualification I would however make. In the case of ordinary dislocation, I placed chloroform foremost in the list of auxiliaries—in all respects decidedly superior to its colleagues. Here I am not prepared to advise that opium should give way. I would place both on a par; both excel- lent ; chloroform superior, in being more rapid and certain in effecting muscular relaxation ; opium having the advantage of conferring a power on the general system, of sustaining itself under the otherwise overwhelming depression caused by the strangulation. They will do excellently, conjoined. XXXIV. ANAESTHESIA IS OF UNSPEAKABLE ADVANTAGE IN SAVING THE FEELINGS OF DELICACY AND MODESTY IN WOMEN. I was first made sensible of this long ago, thus : A lady had a middle aged maid, unfortunately affected at the same time with morbid sensitiveness of mind, and a disease of the rectum. The two were ill assorted ; for the former, prevail- ing, kept the lower affection unattended to for many a day. At length, matters became so bad that they would no longer R