Anesthesia


Chloroform mask (5) from YANKAUER

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The YANKAUER mask consists of a fine wire mesh, 13 cm x 9 cm, with a handle. It was developed around 1910 and was described by Taylor GWATHMEY (1862-1944) as the best mask for the drip method for chloroform and ether.



Sidney Yankauer (1872-1932), an ENT surgeon and pioneer of bronchoscopy, worked at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. He graduated in 1893. In 1916, he directed the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and in 1927, he served as president of the ABEA (American Bronchesophagological Association) for one year. He died on August 27, 1932 in New York.
The mask presented is from the fund of Maternité Charlotte in Luxembourg.

 


A joke
Before the chloroform was invented, a dentist announced: Painless Teeth Removal! As soon as a patient stopped, he was put on a chair and the forceps were placed against his tooth. A jolt followed by a terrible roar. "Calm down, I promised you to remove the tooth without pain, that's what I think; I only gave you that jerk to demonstrate Doctor Brecher's method. "The instrument was put back in-a jerk-terrible shouting." Just be quiet, that's Dr. Reißer's method. Now sit down, you should mine Get to know the method ". Another move followed with the same result. "Please, calm down, that was Doltor Schinder's method. You do not like it? I'd like to believe that. "Now the tooth was hanging on a thread and the dentist was able to take it off painlessly, triumphantly exclaiming," You see, that's my way of removing teeth painlessly, you can now use them compare to the other three gentlemen - two thaler, if you please. " (Luxemburger Wort from 17.5.1888).



This message looks damned like an April Fool's joke, but was none:
"One writes from Schwerin: In these days shooting attempts are made in the proximity of our city with completely new projectiles, which are intended to be led into the field against the" ball syringe "; It is expected that these will be extremely successful, for the shooting attempts are in fact to the full satisfaction of the Commission ad hoc, which consists of several artillery officers, under the presidency of the Chief of the Engineering Staff, Schultze. The grenade is made of cast iron and has a double wall of only 3 / 8tel strength. The space between the mantle and the actual grenade body is filled with nitro-glycerine, which is known to explode by percussion. The inner garnet contains about 100 small glass spheres of 3 / 8ths of diameter and 1 / 16th of a wall, which are filled with concentrated chloroform. As soon as the bullet explodes in front of an enemy column, the glass spheres spread over the ground and are crushed by the advancing soldiers, who, as a result of the anesthetic mediated by the evaporating chloroform, either immediately sink or become stupefied or weakened and half-powerless fall into the hands of their opponents of which they are unarmed, helpless as they are disarmed. The ingenious construction of the projectile, by virtue of which the glass spheres do not disperse over a circular surface, but spread out before the enemy's front in a line at right angles to the orbit of the ball, is still the inventor's secret, and will probably remain so. One of these shells is enough to make the entire crew of a bullet spray completely incapacitated for an hour. Since the intention is to fire on the enemy Generalstad at a distance too, for the purpose very large-scale artillery of 2½ bore and hollow projectiles of the same system have been constructed, which, however, instead of the chloroform a very volatile KantharidenTinctur [l'inclura cantharidis volubilis). As soon as they have burst in the midst of the general staff stationed on a commanding hill, the general and his suite are confronted with an inestimable sense of philanthropy and mutual consideration, which causes complete confusion. But there is still the ball syringe whose moral impression is so generally feared. It is hoped that the enemy army, seized by the impression of the surprising scene, will take flight! "(Luxemburger Wort, 18.5.1867).