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Excerpt from Supplement to the American Dispensatory Its specific gravity is air being the standard, or 23, hydrogen being the standard of unity. One great Objection to it as a popular remedial agent is the fact that it is gaseous at Ordinary temperatures. Water dis solves thirty-three times its volume. Alcohol and methyl alcohol dissolve it more freely, while sulphuric acid will dissolve six hundred times its volume, with increase of temperature. In the latter case, the gas is freely liberated upon the addition of water. - L. Properties and Uses - This gas, taken up to saturation, by concentrated ethylic ether, at a temperature of 32° F., forms the anesthetic żuid of Dr. B. W. Richardson, 'of England - methyl-ethylic ether. As it is very vol atile and highly inżammable, it should be at Once placed into well-secured bottles, and kept in the cold. According to Dr. Richardson, it is a rapid and perfectly safe anesthetic, and more closely approximates what a true agent of this kind should be than any other yet presented to the profession. A drachm or two inhaled, effects anesthesia quickly. It simply destroys sensibility, without interfering with will, consciousness, or muscular power, and without occasioning spasm, syncope, asphyxia, or any excita tion of the nerve centers - Lancet, April 2, 1870. In consequence, how ever, of the instability of this preparation, and its by no means agreeable odor, it has not come into general use as an anesthetic - K. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Full title: Supplement to the American Dispensatory (Classic Reprint)
• Author: John King
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 228
• EAN: 9781334339905
• ISBN: 1334339902
• ID: 15472582
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Weight: 312 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. November 2016

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