Lectures on general anaesthetics in dentistry : advocating painless dental operations by the use of nitrous oxid, nitrous oxid and oxygen, chloroform, ether, ethyl chloride and somnoform / by William Harper De Ford.

  • De Ford, William Harper, 1858-
Date:
1912
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Credit: Lectures on general anaesthetics in dentistry : advocating painless dental operations by the use of nitrous oxid, nitrous oxid and oxygen, chloroform, ether, ethyl chloride and somnoform / by William Harper De Ford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    At the request of Dr. Burton Lee Thorpe, associate editor of The Dental Brief, the writer prepared for that journal a series of articles entitled Anaesthetics in Dentistry. From time to time during their publica- tion numerous letters were received from all over this country and abroad inquiring if these articles would be published in book form. So many inquiries of this kind have come to hand as to create the impression that a practical treatise on anaesthetics was very much needed. Instead of repro- ducing in book form what has already been printed in the Brief, the author has used those articles as a skele- ton about which he has woven the fabric which consti- tutes these brief lectures. The object of this book is to give the busy dentist a working knowledge of such general anaesthetics as can be used to advantage in daily practice. With this end in view, the author has prepared what he has to say in the form of brief lectures. The how is dwelt upon more than the why; in other words, it is simply a practical treatise, and not a theoretical exposition. The lecture style enables the author to talk directly to the individual just as is done in the class-room and to repeat and emphasize from time to time the more important and essential things, which is not permissible in a text-book.