Part 78

Hydrochloric acid gas and ammonia are no exceptions to this rule, for they cease to exist as gases so soon as they come in contact with the moist lining membrane of the air-passages. Carbonic acid gas will be treated of in another part of this work.

Footnote 136:

See Med. Times and Gaz., 1853, vol. ii, p. 562.

Footnote 137:

See above, p. 75.

Footnote 138:

Edin. Monthly Jour., 1853, vol. xvii, p. 220.

Footnote 139:

Med. Times and Gaz., 1852, vol. i, p. 627.

Footnote 140:

L’Union Médicale, 1850, p. 411.

Footnote 141:

Lond. Med. Gaz., vol. xliii, p. 230.

Footnote 142:

Medical Times and Gaz., 1856, vol. ii, p. 413.

Footnote 143:

Med. Times and Gaz., 1856, vol. ii, p. 478.

Footnote 144:

Ib., 1857, vol. i, p. 559.

Footnote 145:

Page 648.

Footnote 146:

Practical Surgery, 3rd ed., p. 682.

Footnote 147:

I never allow of a cork or any such substance being put into a patient’s mouth when insensible unless it is well tied to a string, lest it should be swallowed.

Footnote 148:

Fourth edit., vol. ii, p. 467.

Footnote 149: