Surgical Cases Treated by Maynard's Adhesive Solution

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never have been reduced. The timidity of the patient and his friends would have kept them from any further attempts at reduction. Complete relaxation was induced by the ether. A. B. Shipman.Cortlandville, iV. Y., June 23, 1848. P. S.-One word with regard to etherization. A few days since, I exhibited the ether to a patient on whom I performed a surgical operation (castration). The ether was inhaled twenty minutes before insensibility was induced. Great excitement followed the operation ; the patient laughed, shouted, and tried to get off the operating table, and it was with the greatest difficulty that he could be calmed, while applying the dressings. All went on well until the third day, when he was seized wilh a rigor, and fever soon followed ; severe pain in chest ; bloody sputa and difficult respiration, ami a thin bloody sanies from the wound. I bled him, and the blood did not coagulate, but a strong huffy coat formed on the surface, while all beneath was dark, loose fluid. 1 confess I felt greatly concerned as lo the result. The face was livid, pulse rapid, irregular, and he was exceedingly faint and weak. 1 gave him

From Parkesine to Celluloid: The Birth of Organic Plastics

“…[21,22] Such ether or ether/ethanol solutions were then applied to the production of coatings and lacquers, [4,20] including use as ac oating for wounds and cuts. [3,5,6,8,19,20,23,24] Thefirst to use these solutions for medical coatings is apoint of contention, with both Schçnbein [19] and Boston physician John Parker Maynard [20,23] claiming priority in ca. 1846/7.…”