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USE OF GENERAL ANESTHETICS. 617
To improve digestion and assimilation :
I^. Acidi hydruc'hlorici diluti, f3ij
;
Ext. ignatiie amaris fid., f^j
;
Pepsin, 3iss
Ext. ipeeaeuanhae fld., ITtiv
;
Infusi gentianffi eomp., q.s. ut ft. fovj.—M.
S. Dessertspoonful in sherry glass of water immediately after
meals.
In cases of undue hemorrhage after extracting, it is well to adminis-
ter a hemostatic while at the same time styptics and pressure are being
applied locally. The following are very good :
R. Vin. ergota? (Squibb's), fsiij*
S. Teaspoonful every two hours.
I^. Ext. ergotse solidificat.,
3j ;
Ext. cannabis indicse, gr. v
;
Strychnise sulphatis, gr. ss.
M. et ft, pilulse No. xxx.
S. One pill three times a day.
Gallic acid and aromatic sulfuric acid may ])e administered.
Digitalin exhibited in doses of y\j- to -^ a grain three or four times daily
for a series of weeks will often effect such change in the capillaries as to
overcome the hemorrhagic tendency. This has been repeatedly and suc-
cessfully accomplished in epistaxis, and as the conditions are analogous
it can be employed in this diathesis with expectation of similar results.
Extraction under the Influence of General Anesthetics.
While it is undoubtedly true that the extraction of teeth under the
influence of a general anesthetic is in accordance with the general spirit
of the age which seeks to spare all suffering or cause the infliction of
but slight pain, yet many evils attend such general and too often
indiscriminate use. " A patient under the effect of so powerful a
drug that consciousness is destroyed is nearer death than an ordinary
human being, since the jirimary depressive influence upon the high
nervous centres may speedily pass to the lower vital centres in the
^
medulla oblongata."
The indiscriminate use of general anesthetics, beside their possible
danger to life and health, has an accompanying evil in the demand
for the extraction of teeth which are salvable and useful, but Avhich
' H. A. Hare, in l\ir/c's Text-Book of Surgery, vol. ii.
USE OF GENERAL ANESTHETICS. 617
To improve digestion and assimilation :
I^. Acidi hydruc'hlorici diluti, f3ij
;
Ext. ignatiie amaris fid., f^j
;
Pepsin, 3iss
Ext. ipeeaeuanhae fld., ITtiv
;
Infusi gentianffi eomp., q.s. ut ft. fovj.—M.
S. Dessertspoonful in sherry glass of water immediately after
meals.
In cases of undue hemorrhage after extracting, it is well to adminis-
ter a hemostatic while at the same time styptics and pressure are being
applied locally. The following are very good :
R. Vin. ergota? (Squibb's), fsiij*
S. Teaspoonful every two hours.
I^. Ext. ergotse solidificat.,
3j ;
Ext. cannabis indicse, gr. v
;
Strychnise sulphatis, gr. ss.
M. et ft, pilulse No. xxx.
S. One pill three times a day.
Gallic acid and aromatic sulfuric acid may ])e administered.
Digitalin exhibited in doses of y\j- to -^ a grain three or four times daily
for a series of weeks will often effect such change in the capillaries as to
overcome the hemorrhagic tendency. This has been repeatedly and suc-
cessfully accomplished in epistaxis, and as the conditions are analogous
it can be employed in this diathesis with expectation of similar results.
Extraction under the Influence of General Anesthetics.
While it is undoubtedly true that the extraction of teeth under the
influence of a general anesthetic is in accordance with the general spirit
of the age which seeks to spare all suffering or cause the infliction of
but slight pain, yet many evils attend such general and too often
indiscriminate use. " A patient under the effect of so powerful a
drug that consciousness is destroyed is nearer death than an ordinary
human being, since the jirimary depressive influence upon the high
nervous centres may speedily pass to the lower vital centres in the
^
medulla oblongata."
The indiscriminate use of general anesthetics, beside their possible
danger to life and health, has an accompanying evil in the demand
for the extraction of teeth which are salvable and useful, but Avhich
' H. A. Hare, in l\ir/c's Text-Book of Surgery, vol. ii.
