Abstract:HOUSE-SURGEON, YORK COUNTY HOSPITAL. UNTIL the following case came under my observation I never thought it necessary to examine the heart before administering ether. In all cases, provided the patient was neither a young child nor an old person, I was in the habit of giving ether without making any further examination than glancing at the chest walls, to see that they were not too rigid, and asking the question, " Have you a cough ?" Both these points being settled in the negative, the anaesthetic was given… Show more
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