Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)
Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 652
le derivatives for the purpose of producing sleep,and that in India similar combinations were for centuries in use. It is need-less, however, to say that the effect produced was nothing like that followingthe use of nitrous oxide, laughing gas, ether, or chloroform, and that theiruse never became… … SURGICAL OPERATING ROOM, HOWARD HOSPITAL, PHILADELPHIA, PA. eral methods of producing insensibility to pain were recommended, such aspressure on nerves and bleeding to the degree of producing unconsciousness,but none of them was ever sufficiently successful to render their adoption gen-eral ; and…
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