Excerpt from Anaesthesia, Hospitalism, Hermaphroditism The Papers on Anaesthesia contain most of my father's writings on the subject, those papers and parts of papers only being omitted which would have been repetitions of others which appear in the volume. Many of the articles were published in his Obstetric Memoirs and Contributions, edited in 1855-6 by Drs. Priestley and Storer. Others have been written since. I have tried to give them in a logical rather than in a chronological se quence, putting, when necessary, at the head of each the date of its original production. Although a consecutive work, written in later years on the subject by my father, would have given more prominence to some points and. 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.