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In those Medical Schools in which it is considered advisable to give instruction in the administration of Anesthetics, the attention of the student is mostly directed towards Ether, Chloroform, and their allies ;in ordinary text-books on Surgery a paragraph of fifteen or twenty lines suffices to discuss the whole subject of Nitrous Oxide, and in more ambitious works on Anesthetics a chapter of as many pages is considered ample. Thus it can hardly be said that the student or practitioner is overburdened with information. At the same time I venture to think, that a fuller and more detailed account as to the methods employed, will not be altogether unacceptable to a large class of readers, and if this little work serves no other purpose, than that of directing the attention of abler writers than myself to an important branch of our profession, it will not have been written altogether in vain.
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