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Scientific American, Vol. 75, No. 25 (1896) (1896)

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atients went on writhing those immediately connected with the operation. It is and screaming, until the 16th day of October, in the interesting to recall that Sir James Simpson, of Edin- year 1846, in the Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. burgh, shortly after beginning his professional studies,… … that he resolved to abandon a medical career and seek but warns his readers that the practice is dangerous, because the use of opium is sometmes followed by gan- other occupation; happily his intention was recon- priceless heritage of the civilized world.” grene. In his work on ‘ Natural Magic,’…

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