Respiratory abnormalities, minor, 39 major, 141 Respiratory system, effects of ether upon, 76 after-effects of anæsthetics upon, 150 Rigidity of muscles in asphyxia, 19, 38, 39 in second stage, 33 S Saline injections, per rectus, 42 subcutaneous, 14 Schimmelbusch’s mask, 28, 116 Scopolamine, 44, 103 Secondary syncope, 17, 138, 143 Secretion of mucus, 40, 76 of urine, 168 Sedatives, 12, 42 Selection of anæsthetic, 162 Semi-open method, 28 Septic cases, 9, 60, 156, 168 Sequelæ of anæsthesia, 100 Sex, relation to anæsthesia, 165 Shipway, Dr, 91, 101 Shock, 5 difference between syncope and, 142 Short, Mr Rendle, 154 Sickness (_see_ Vomiting) Sighing, 40 Sight-feed machines for gas-oxygen, 70 Signs of anæsthesia, 36, 53, 65 Silk, Dr J. W., 23, 87 Single dose anæsthetics, 30, 163 Sitting posture, 21, 158 Slow respiration, 39 Spasm, muscular, 19 of jaw muscles, 15 of larynx, 16, 26, 169 Specific gravity of chloroform, 109 of ether, 74 Spinal anæsthesia, 193 Stages of anæsthesia, 31 Starvation, a cause of shock, 9 of acidosis, 155 Status lymphaticus, 148 Stertor, 40, 53 Stimuli from field of operations, 6 Stomach tube, before operation, 141 Stovaine, 173 Stridor, 16, 26, 40 Struggling, 34 Strychnine, 147 Subcutaneous saline, 14 Swallowing, movements of, 33 Sylvester’s method of artificial respiration, 146 Syncope, 142 Syringe for local anæsthesia, 176 for spinal anæsthesia, 176 T Teeth, danger of dropping of into larynx, 16 extraction of, 54, 57, 128, 131, 163 Teter, Dr., on nitrous oxide and oxygen, 68 Thomson, Prof. Alexis, 12, 158 Thomson, Torrance, on intratracheal anæsthesia, 96 Thoracic operations, local anæsthesia in, 186 Three-way tap for nitrous oxide, 50, 128 Thyroid gland, _see_ Goitre Time for operations, 42 Time afforded by single dose anæsthetics, 163 Tongue falling back of, 16 forceps for, 24 operations upon, 97, 118, 166 local anæsthesia for, 191 Tonsils and adenoids, 127, 166 Trachea, mucus in, 40 pressure upon, 17 Trachetomy, 142, 185 Tremor, ether, 38 Trendelenberg posture, 158 Tropacocaine, 173 Turner, Dr Logan, 125 U Urine, secretion of prevented by morphia, 168 V Vagus nerve, 110, 145 Valved method, features of, 29 Vapour method, ether, 90 ethyl chloride, 125 Vaso-motor system, in shock, 9 in asphyxia, 17 in nitrous oxide, 46 (and _see_ Physiology) Veins, large, emptying into heart, 10 engorgement of, 20, 151 Venesection in syncope, 147 Veronal, 12 Vicious circle of asphyxia, 20