Excerpt from On the Safe Abolition of Pain: In Labour and Surgical Operations, by Anaesthesia With Mixed Vapours I have endeavoured to anticipate all the more common sources of danger in the anaesthetic process here indicated. By the mixed vapour method the depression resulting from pure chloroform is counteracted, and by my appa ratus the precise dose is not only estimated, but, by a simple contrivance, rendered incapable of passing into excess. The practitioner has but to look on the face of his instrument to see what is the nature of the vapour he is administering to his patient and this is so combined as to unite in itself a stimulant and a narcotic influence which are capable of alternation of intermixture and of relative adjustment with extreme facility and accuracy. The system I have here advocated was briefly described in the Lancet for February loth of this year, and some extracts from my paper in that journal, with an account of my original instrument, are given in the body of this book. All subsequent experience of this method of abolishing pain has confirmed the hope then expressed that we had in it an easy, agreeable, and safe anaesthetic process. May such be the experience also of all the future. 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.