Abstract
Meltzer and Auer have shown that continuous insufflation or air into the trachea under moderate pressure is capable of ventilating the pulmonary alveoli, of effecting the necessary exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxid and sustaining life for many hours when all respiratory movements have been abolished by curare. They have shown that it is the most effective and ideal method of artificial respiration known. It then occurred to them that it might be a means of introducing ether vapor into the respiratory tract, and the extensive and careful series of experiments by which they developed the method of intratracheal insufflation anesthesia are too recent and well known to require review in detail. This paper will deal simply with personal experience with the method on my service at the Roosevelt Hospital during the past two years in a series of 412 cases, including a great variety of conditions, in many of
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