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Wood's Medical and surgical monographs. v.9, 1891
Wood's Medical and surgical monographs v9 1891 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DISCUSSION ON ANAESTHETICS.1 CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. By The President, Dr. William Macewen. Gentlemen :—The subject of anaesthesia and the proper... more »ties of various anaesthetic agents is one in which medical men have at all'times a keen interest. Lately this interest has received a fillip by the publication of the report of the Hyderabad commission. The conclusions arrived at in this report have given rise to much comment. Various members of this society have expressed a belief that a discussion on anaesthetics might be profitable, and the council have accordingly arranged to set apart one or two evenings for that purpose, so that all who have a desire to participate in the discussion may have an opportunity of doing so. It would facilitate the arrangements, however, were the names of those members who wish to speak given to the secretary. While in no way wishing to limit the discussion, it is hoped that the observations of the various speakers may be arranged, as far as possible, under the three heads mentioned in the billet: 1. The relative value of various anaesthetics. 2. Their mode of administration, including the examination and preparation of the patient. 3. Fatal issues, how they arise and how to avert them. Another point might be put to the practitioners present. Is it possible in the emergencies of practice to have two registered medical practitioners always present when an anaesthetic is administered ? Were a law to that effect established, would it increase human suffering or endanger life ? It would, as a rule, be easy for surgeons in hospitals or in large cities to obeyit; but in private practice, and especially in remote districts where the nearest medical man may be miles distant, such a law might tell hardly on the patient. A man with dislo...« less