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While interne in the Long Island College Hospital fifteen years ago I had many excellent tutors; taken all in all the faculty as a whole seemed to me the personification of wisdom and professional enthusiasm. On one point, however, there was a serious breach of harmony: one used chloroform, one ether, another a mixture of the two, with or without alcohol, etc. On entering upon private practice, I chose chloroform as my anæsthetic, and have now used it exclusively for fifteen years. Never, except in consultations, when I always defer to the preference of counsel, have I used any other anæsthetic than chloroform.In discussing this subject there are three questions which should be answered: i. How often have I administered chloroform to complete insensibility? 2. Under what limitations? 3. With what results?1. I have administered chloroform to the surgical degree of anæsthesia about three thousand times; I have |
