Excerpt from A New Theory of Chloroform Syncope: Showing How the Anaesthetic Ought to Be Administered Nothing but a strong conviction of being in the right could justify the author of the following pages for express ing views which must give a violent wrench to pre-conceived opinions, and which will almost certainly be met with opposition from all parties. These views, however, it may be stated, are not a thing of yesterday, having been present to the mind of the writer, in a more or less definite form, for fifteen years before they finally crystallised in their present Shape. During that period new facts have been added to our knowledge, which, together with the complete failure of all attempts to look for an explanation of, ctroform syncope in other directions, have only tended to confirm his belief in the soundness of his opinions. Various reasons might _be assigned why the theory here advanced has not been published earlier, and some of these, but not all, may here be stated. In the first place experiment, although it gave some countenance to the author's View, did not fully prove it, as will be seen in the sequel. Next just as he had concluded his investigation of the question, there appeared the first report of the Glasgow Chloroform. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.