A narrative of events connected with the introduction of sulphuric ether into surgical use / By Richard Manning Hodges.

  • Hodges, Richard M. (Richard Manning), 1827-1896.
Date:
1891
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A narrative of events connected with the introduction of sulphuric ether into surgical use / By Richard Manning Hodges. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    Even as a Surgeon, minding off-to-cut Som-cureless limb; before in ure be put H13 violent Engins on the vicious member, Bringeth his Patient in a sense-less slumber, And grief-less then (guided by Use and Art) To save the whole, sawes off th' infested part. Du Bartas (1544-1590): Weekes and Workes; Week I. Day 6. Th' invention all admir'd, and each, how hee To be th' inventer miss'd, so easie it seem'd Once found, which yet unfound most would have thought Impossible. Paradise Lost, Book VI. Lines 49G-499.