Researches on the Medical Properties and Applications of Nitrous Oxide, Protoxide of Nitrogen, Or Laughing Gas

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J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1865 - 66 страници
 

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Страница 42 - As nitrous oxide in its extensive operation appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably be used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place...
Страница 16 - ... calorification, assimilation, disintegration, depuration, secretion, excretion, muscular and general contractility, innervation, and intellection ; and likewise, those of the reproductive system.
Страница 45 - Thus while chemically it rapidly arterializes the blood and promotes elemental interchange, molecular activity and organic metamorphosis, dynamically it stimulates the nervous system, sensorium and general functions of life. But when taken freely the physiological processes are accelerated to such a degree as to temporarily overcome systemic excitability and cause partial interruption of vital activity from overstimulation, the stimulus overbalancing excitability or the momentum being greater than...
Страница 7 - Ansematosis — its Consequences, Prevention, and Treatment, Ibid., Vol. xlvi. Nos. 22 and 23 ; Experimental Investigation on the Antidotal and Revivifying Properties of Nitrous Oxide, Ibid., xlvii. No. 19 ; Haematosis — its Natural and Artificial Induction, Ibid., Vol. xlix. Nos. 3, 4, 5, and 6 ; Glucosis, Ibid., Vol. 1. No. 11 ; Nitrous Oxide — its Properties and Applications, Dental Cosmos, Vol. i. No. 2.
Страница 21 - In comprehensive terms, nitrous oxide is a direct, potent, and permanent chemico-organic, arterial, nervous, cerebral, and general stimulant, secernent, depurant, aphrodisiac, and antitoxic, having a special tendency to the blood, brain, nervous system, and genito-urinary organs." The book abounds with such high-flown sentences as this. But, strange to say, this extravagant praise is not supported by any statistics ; and only two cases are detailed, and those were cases wherein the use of nitrous...
Страница 22 - It is therefore especially indicated in indigestion and inefficient absorption, as also in general inactivity of the chylopoietic functions; in imperfect aeration or arterialization of...
Страница 21 - ... aphrodisiac, and antitoxic, having a special tendency to the blood, brain, nervous system, and genitourinary organs. It exerts a powerful invigorating influence over the entire economy and is a superior nutrient, haematic, neurotic, tonic, disintegrant, diuretic, disinfectant, alterative, resolvent, sorbefacient, antidote, antiseptic, etc.
Страница 11 - ... to a high degree of physical excitement and mental exhilaration amounting in the extreme to an intensely pleasurable delirium or ecstacy which may indeed become so pure and exquisite as to absorb the consciousness of existence itself.
Страница 9 - ... however, both in the proportion of its constituent elements, and in the character of their association.
Страница 30 - It will thus be seen that protoxide of nitrogen has a very wide range of therapeutical application in that class of maladies connected with the undue or irregular production of such substances indicated, especially when of an amyloid, glucoid, ceroid, adipoid, albuminoid, or * That it will thus sometimes momentarily develop pain was long since observed by Sir Humphrey Davy, vide "Researches on Nitrous Oxide.

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