Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1919 — New Method of Applying Chloroform Obviates the Nausea Usually Resulting [ARTICLE]

New Method of Applying Chloroform Obviates the Nausea Usually Resulting

A new method of administering chloroform has been brought out in France by Doctor He no longer applies ft by the usual compress or mask- placed over the mouth, but Introduces the chloroform vapor directly into the lungs through a tube running into the windpipe. The tube method has already been employed In several hundred cases and with great success. Besides being very useful for operations to be performed on the head and neck, It Is of great Interest because it never produces the nausea which is almost always the result of applications of chloroform in the ordinary fashion, and thus the patient is relieved of cause of suffering. The effects of the new method will serve to explain the reason why chloroform applications always produced nausea when operating by the former method, for ft appears evident that the nausea was caused by a part of the chloroform vapors being absorbed by the esophagus and the stomach. Of course this is not necessary, for the whole of the vapors should go to the lungs, and this result is now reached by the new method. It, therefore, marks quite a progress in the right direction.