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ether apparatus
This is a “Foregger anesthesia apparatus” circa 1925. The design of this machine was to allow better mixture of air and ether, British doctors at this time preferred chloroform rather than ether. Chloroform was mush more difficult to administer safely because of its high potency. Never the less, it was popular for general surgery, and especially popular in obstetrics. Chloroform was often administered in an open method by dropping the substance into a wire mask covered with gauze or flannel. Suck masks were also used with ether. Dropper bottles were used in the administration of both chloroform and ether. Inhalers sought to further improve the mixture of air and vapor to control the amount of ether administered. Despite these early inhalers, “open drop” anesthesia persisted as the common method until the middle of the 20th century. The original machine was originally designed to administer nitrous oxide, nitrous oxide was originally used at parties to make every one giggly. During the 18th century their were many party which involved the use of gases to make people feel giggly and to get away from a sense of reality. A group of people make to Dr. Long for some nitrous oxide, but he had some sulfuric ether. He administer the ether using a machine similar to this one to the group of people and noticed that when they were heavily on the ether they could feel no pain.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawford_Long
Dudley Wilmot Buxton, Crawford Williamson Long (1815-1879) : the pioneer of anaesthesia and the first to suggest and employ ether inhalation during surgical operations (London : J. Bale, Sons & Daniellson, 1912) 27
ether apparatus
This is a “Foregger anesthesia apparatus” circa 1925. The design of this machine was to allow better mixture of air and ether, British doctors at this time preferred chloroform rather than ether. Chloroform was mush more difficult to administer safely because of its high potency. Never the less, it was popular for general surgery, and especially popular in obstetrics. Chloroform was often administered in an open method by dropping the substance into a wire mask covered with gauze or flannel. Suck masks were also used with ether. Dropper bottles were used in the administration of both chloroform and ether. Inhalers sought to further improve the mixture of air and vapor to control the amount of ether administered. Despite these early inhalers, “open drop” anesthesia persisted as the common method until the middle of the 20th century. The original machine was originally designed to administer nitrous oxide, nitrous oxide was originally used at parties to make every one giggly. During the 18th century their were many party which involved the use of gases to make people feel giggly and to get away from a sense of reality. A group of people make to Dr. Long for some nitrous oxide, but he had some sulfuric ether. He administer the ether using a machine similar to this one to the group of people and noticed that when they were heavily on the ether they could feel no pain.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawford_Long
Dudley Wilmot Buxton, Crawford Williamson Long (1815-1879) : the pioneer of anaesthesia and the first to suggest and employ ether inhalation during surgical operations (London : J. Bale, Sons & Daniellson, 1912) 27