No. EE.

Table of Admissions and Deaths in the Medical College Male Hospital, for the year 1847.

In the course of a very few minutes all pain left him. The limb, which he could not bear to be touched before, might now be handled roughly without his feeling it. The patient's countenance changed from its expression of suffering to that of ease and cheerfulness. He never lost his consciousness, however, for a moment, and the leg was amputed while the owner was looking on with the expression of an indifferent observer. No bad symptoms followed the operation, and he left the Hospital cured. I might cite many other cases from this list equally conclusive of the power this drug possesses as an anæsthetic agent, but it would be impossible to produce an instance more demonstrative of the great practical utility of it, when the most urgent and desperate cases demand immediate surgical interference.

After this case I operated on no patient admitted into hospital without previously causing Ether to be inhaled, and with a very few exceptions there was not the slightest suffering, and, I am happy to add, I had not in a single instance cause to regret its use. Since the commencement of this year, Chloroform, a better and more manageable anæsthetic, has been introduced to the notice of the profession in India. I hope next year to be able to speak as favourably of it, as my present experience leads me to anticipate.

(a) One of the fatal cases occurred in a feeble emaciated man, who had extensive disease of the elbow joint, and was rapidly sinking from the effects of irritative fever; the operation was resorted to as affording him the only chance of recovery-the other died from organic disease of the chest.

(b) The subject of this operation was a young Hindu lad in the last stage of emaciation and debility from the effects of an enormous osteo-sarcomatous tumor, involving the whole of the left thigh to within a few inches of the groin: the operation afforded him the only possible chance of life-he died from collapse, six hours after the operation.

(c) The fatal cases occurred in feeble old men, who were run over in the streets and sustained other severe injuries, besides compound comminuted fractures of the leg for which amputation was performed.

(d) The fatal case occurred in an unhealthy subject, who died 26 days after the operation in consequence of infiltration of urine. (e) Including amputation of fingers and toes, amputation of the penis, excision of small tumors, operations for fistulæ in ano, or fistula lachrymalis, hydrocele, &c. &c.

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