Local anaesthetics and cocaine analgaesia : their uses and limitations / by Thomas H. Manley.

  • Manley, Thomas H. (Thomas Henry), 1851-1905.
Date:
1894
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Local anaesthetics and cocaine analgaesia : their uses and limitations / by Thomas H. Manley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    IPZE^EZF-i^GE. This age in which we live, is one of hghtning progress; old ideas are cast aside and new ones crowded to the front. This, indeed, has been a century of rush and push, and things are often accepted with the stamp of professional ap- proval, before they have been even fairly inspected. Very naturally many of these have had but a very ephemeral exist- ence and scarcely see light, before their hollow claims are ex- posed and they are cast aside. Again, we are dazzled by an array of new principles and dogmas, which are, to at once, unravel all the intricacies of diagnosis in disease, and render its subjugation prompt and simple. But, in a little while, the piercing lens of the just, scientific, and impartial critic and analyst discovers little, but a mere net-work of fallacies. Nevertheless, history must concede to this age, that in scien- tific progress and in improvement it has had no equal; and that in no department of science has the ratio been greater than in medicine and surgery. Ten years ago the virtues of erythroxolon were discovered as an inhibitor of the pain-sense, and as an agent of great value as a local analgaesic in surgical operations. For six years, I have constantly employed it; every year in more and more cases. It was expected, that some one of our many fliuent, talented writers would, before this late date, have placed on the market a work which would, in some sort of a classified —V—