ANÆSTHESIA

The subject of Anaesthesia, both local and general, is one that to a great extent has occupied the minds of surgeons and dentists for many years. The word anaesthesia indicates an agent that renders a person insensible to pain. It is not my expectation to advance any new ideas upon the subject; it is one that should be, and I presume is, familiar, to you all. My object is simply to induce a discussion upon the merits of the most general articles used by our profession, in order to lead to the adoption of the one that, all things considered, will produce the desired result with the least danger to our patients. It is a subject of great and grave importance to those who are called upon almost daily to perform operations more or less painful, the thought of which produces