The misapplication of anaesthesia in childbirth, exemplified by facts / by G.T. Gream.

  • Gream, G. T. (George Thompson), 1812?-1888.
Date:
1849
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Credit: The misapplication of anaesthesia in childbirth, exemplified by facts / by G.T. Gream. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. The following statement may appear superfluous now that the employment of Anaesthesia in midwifery has ceased to be esteemed by the public, and that the praises bestowed upon it have failed to impart to those who are the most extensively engaged in practice any belief in its advantages, or to remove from their minds the sense they entertain of its dangers; and it must be confessed that no further exposure of its eflPects was necessary to cause its disuse. But my inducement to write again upon the subject has been not only to demonstrate by facts what I stated in a former pamphlet, but also to show the entire fallacy of the denials, emanating from Edinburgh, of the statements I at that time made. Having inquired into the experience of a great number of eminent practitioners in large provincial towns, many events of interest have become known to me, connected with the use of anaesthetic vapours, some of which are noticed in these pages, but more have been omitted owing to the limits of a pamphlet not permitting their insertion. It may, however, be remarked, that not only have all my former assertions been substantiated, but I regret to say my prognostications regarding the casualties and fatality attending the use of anaesthetic vapotirs, have been to a frightful extent exceeded ; and there can be no doubt that had I