This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...circumstances of the benumbing effects of ether and of nitrous oxide gas. The great French surgeon, Velpeau, doubtless expressed the accepted opinion of surgeons before the discovery of surgical anaesthesia when, in 1839, he wrote: "To escape pain in surgical operations is a chimera which we are not permitted to look ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...circumstances of the benumbing effects of ether and of nitrous oxide gas. The great French surgeon, Velpeau, doubtless expressed the accepted opinion of surgeons before the discovery of surgical anaesthesia when, in 1839, he wrote: "To escape pain in surgical operations is a chimera which we are not permitted to look for in our day. Knife and pain, in surgery, are two words which never present themselves the one without the other in the minds of patients, and it is necessary for us surgeons to admit their association." In less than a decade this erring prophet hailed before the Academy of Medicine in Paris the discovery of what he had called a chimera as "a glorious triumph for humanity." For several years before the invention of anaesthetic inhalation for surgical purposes, considerable popular and some medical interest in the possibility of securing unconsciousness of pain during a surgical operation had been aroused by the claims of the mesmerists, and there seems to be no doubt that Esdaile, in East India, and others, had, in certain cases, succeeded in performing painless operations in hypnotic sleep. The method, however, was not widely applicable or successful, and the general attitude of the profession toward its employment is sufficiently shown by the joy of the eminent surgeon, Liston, the first after the dentist, Robinson, to verify in Great Britain the discovery of surgical anaesthesia, when he shouted, "Hurrah! Rejoice! Mesmerism and its professors have met with a heavy blow and great discouragement. An American dentist has used the inhalation of ether to destroy sensation in his operations and the plan has succeeded in the hands of Warren, Hayward and others, in Boston. In six months no operation will be performed witho...
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