Ether and chloroform : their employment in surgery, dentistry, midwifery, therapeutics, etc. / By J.F.B. Flagg.

  • Flagg, J. F. B. (John Foster Brewster), 1804-1872.
Date:
1851
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Credit: Ether and chloroform : their employment in surgery, dentistry, midwifery, therapeutics, etc. / By J.F.B. Flagg. 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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    sive honour of having first induced anaesthesia by inhalation; when the part allotted to each in its promulgation, would have been sufficiently merito- rious to rank him among the philanthropic of the age. It is equally humiliating that secrecy, caveats, and quackery, in various shapes, should ever have been connected with this subject; as they have all tended to bring into disrepute a valuable discovery. The consequent excitement required the utmost can- dour, the calm exercise of judgment, in short every ennobling trait, to meet the many objections that have been suggested through fear, jealousy, or other wrong motives. Sufficient time has elapsed, and an amount of ex- perience has been gathered throughout the civilized world, to place ether upon that basis which its most sanguine friends claimed for it from the first, as a safe instrument in the hands of prudent men, to secure the abolition of suffering in surgical opera- tions. Having, from time to time, furnished various arti- cles upon the subject of ether, for the purpose of giving information relative to many of its peculi- arities, as well as to remove deep-rooted prejudice, it has been my object to collect and embody in this work, most of those writings, and to arrange them, with cases cited, as may serve to illustrate its use-