Anaesthetics and their administration : a text-book for medical and dental practitioners and students / by Frederic W. Hewitt.

  • Hewitt, Frederic W. (Frederic William), Sir, 1857-1916.
Date:
1912
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Credit: Anaesthetics and their administration : a text-book for medical and dental practitioners and students / by Frederic W. Hewitt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in this rapidly developing subject. I cannot help feeling that the book has greatly benefited by the independent opinion often expressed by Dr. Robinson on various technical points. As will be seen by reference to the last chapter, the medico-legal aspects of surgical anesthesia have received that masterly treatment at the hands of Mr. Digby Cotes-Preedy which, from the name and position he has made for himself at the bar, we might be certain they would receive. I here tender him my very best thanks for his valuable contribution. I had hoped that before going to press Mr. Cotes-Preedy would have been able to chronicle, in his article, the passage of an Anesthetics Act protecting the public against the use of aneesthetics by unqualified persons. It is a deplorable fact, however, that in spite of the representations of the Home Office Departmental Committee, which was appointed to inquire into the question, of the General Medical Council, and of practically every academic and professional body whose opinions were ascertained, no steps have yet been taken by the Government to pass into law the draft Bill which has now been before them for the past year. That the second decade of the twentieth century should have opened whilst it is still legally permissible for the most ignorant and untrained person to administer an anesthetic is, I venture to submit, a reproach to our country, and one which I trust will be removed at no distant date. To my friend Professor A. D. Waller, F.R.S., I am again deeply indebted, not only for his kindness in looking over the proofs of the two chapters dealing—I fear very inadequately — with the physiology of anwsthesia, but for the courtesy and consideration he has invariably shown me whilst I have enjoyed the privilege of being associated with him on the Anesthetics Committee of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. His fearless attempts to arrive at the truth of every problem with which he deals have appealed
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