Abstract
Ethylene has been used at the Battle Creek Sanitarium for nearly all the major and minor surgery since February, 1924, and has proved a most satisfactory anesthetic. We have had no accidents thus far, although the new anesthetic has been used under conditions similar to those in other hospitals until the present apparatus was devised. Luckhardt, 1 Brown, 2 and Davis 3 have in recent articles given conditions under which ethylene might explode, but have not made definite suggestions or recommendations as to the arrangement of the anesthesia apparatus to avoid these accidents. As far as we know, up to the present time the manufacturers of anesthesia apparatus have not equipped their machines with any device that will eliminate the possibility of explosions. We have made various tests by means of a static machine and the electroscope, and have demonstrated that a simple arrangement that grounds every part of the
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