Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1919 — Chloroform Administered by Tube. [ARTICLE]

Chloroform Administered by Tube.

A new method of administering chloroform, brought out in France by Doctor Gulsez. is described in Scientific American. The doctor no longer applies the drug 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 nausea. The effects of the new method will serve to explain the reason why chloroform operations always produced nausea when operating by the former method, for it appears evident that the nausea was caused by. a part of the chloroform vapory being absorbed by the esophagus and the stomach.