Hand-book of dental anatomy and surgery for the use of students and practitioners / by John Smith.

  • Smith, John.
Date:
1864
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Hand-book of dental anatomy and surgery for the use of students and practitioners / by John Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the University of Toronto, Harry A Abbott Dentistry Library, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harry A Abbott Dentistry Library, University of Toronto.

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    where embarrassment or cessation of the breath- ing takes place; and the ultimate and greatest effect chloroform can produce, is described as that where the irritability of the muscles is destroyed, and post-mortem rigidity induced. These seem certainly very clear and distinct divisions of the consecutive phenomena of anaes- thesia produced by chloroform. So much, how- ever, in actual practice does each blend with and lose itself in another, that it is very rarely such stages can be made out with so much pre- cision that they should be of much use or serve as anything like beacons by which to steer clear of danger; and as for any certain indications of having attained the sole object we desire in administering anaesthetics at all—insensibility to pain—we can confidently depend on having done so only when patients exhibit, among other symptoms, those here constituting the fourth degree of narcotism. It would be out of place here to enter upon the views entertained and promulgated regard- ing death from chloroform. It is a great deal to know that death can be produced by it, and that there is no doubt of death having been so in a small number of instances. It cannot be