On the Administration of Chloride of Ethyl and Somnoform, Alone or in Conjunction with Nitrous Oxide or Ether

Abstract

TIIE USE OF ETHYL CHLORIDE WITH GAS OR ETHER. 949that, provided a culture of this cocco-bacillus is of suifficient virulelnce, it is possible to count upon the destructioni by its use of all the rats in a large city without can,ing any daniget whatever to its other inhabitants, lhuman or animal, always supposing that the operations are conducted in an orderly and methodical manner.

The Nagin Parbhoo History of Anaesthesia Museum – Part 1

“…12 In 1920 he was appointed as an honorary anaesthetist at the New Somerset Hospital, and in 1921, when anaesthesia was taught in the fourth year of study, he was appointed as the UCT's first lecturer in anaesthesia. 12 Anaesthetic equipment in the collection from that era includes the ethyl chloride inhaler designed by Daniell 13 (Figure 7), the Shipway apparatus for administering warm ether and/or chloroform (note the gold coloured heat insulator) 14 ( Figure 8) and an original 1917 Boyle nitrous oxide/oxygen/ether apparatus named after English anaesthetist, Dr Henry EG Boyle 15 ( Figure 9). The apparatus has a bubble-through water-sight flowmeter for nitrous oxide and oxygen with no flow control knobs, and an ether inhaler with no temperature compensation mechanism.…”

The Nagin Parbhoo History of Anaesthesia Museum – Part 1

“…The collection hosts a display of anaesthetic equipment designed by South Africans. These include: the Bampfylde Daniell ethyl chloride inhaler (c 1904) 23 , the Taurus blood warmer named after Professor Arthur Bull (Figure 17), 24 the Cape Town paediatric circuit, 25 Samson's neonatal resuscitator (c 1966) and his improved resuscitator with an accordion-like bellows (c 1974) (Figure 18), 26,27 and his modification of the Water's canister, 28 and breathing circuits designed by Samson, 28,29 Miller 30 and Humphrey. 31…”