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Historical Bibliography Updated: March 13, 2020

Oil-ether anaesthesia.

Publication Details

N. Y. med. J., 98, 1101-04. 1913 CE.

Gwathmey produced anesthesia by injection into the rectum of liquid ether with olive oil dissolved in it (synergistic anesthesia). Faulconer & Keys report that by 1930 Gwathmey was able to report 20,000 successful cases of the use of rectal ether in midwifery.

Thematic Classifications

Catalog MetadataReference Information
Entry Number#5699
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/7450
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLoilether-anaesthesia