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Since the introduction of ethylene as a general anesthetic by Luckhardt and Carter,1 it has been successfully administered by Drs. Isabella Herb and Mary Lyons to more than 2,000 patients at the Presbyterian Hospital without a fatality. In general surgery, Luckhardt and Lewis2 report most favorably on its use, from a clinical standpoint, in no less than 800 operations. Their observations and conclusions were confirmed by Brown 3 Henson 4 and finally by Allgeyer,5 who reports its use with 100 patients. In genito-urinary surgery, Luckhardt and Kretschmer 6 found ethylene-oxygen the anesthetic of choice, especially in the presence of pulmonary, cardiac, vascular and renal lesions. In obstetric and gynecologic work, Heaney 7 has reported it superior to nitrous oxid in some respects, and finally, in infants, Lundy 8 prefers it to all other anesthetics.However safe ethylene-oxygen anesthesia has been demonstrated clinically at the Presbyterian Hospital and |
