The advantages of ether and chloroform in operative sugery. An address delivered to the Hunterian Society, on the 9th of February, 1848 / [T.B. Curling].

  • Curling, Thomas Blizard, 1811-1888.
Date:
1848
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Credit: The advantages of ether and chloroform in operative sugery. An address delivered to the Hunterian Society, on the 9th of February, 1848 / [T.B. Curling]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ADDRESS. Mr. President and Gentlemen,— I have the honour to appear before you this day to deliver the Address customary at our Annual Comme¬ moration. And in my anxiety to select a topic worthy of engaging your attention, I have been led to refer back to the views of its originator. Sir William Blizard, in the first Oration ever delivered to this Association, stated its object to be “the honour of the Hunterian Society by the impression of Truths upon minds ever prompt to receive them for the advancement of the Healing Art.” It will be my endeavour steadily to bear in mind this injunction; and I know not in what way I can pay greater honour to this Society, and better promote the object of the respected Founder of this discourse, than by attempting to ascertain the value of a recent discovery—a discovery which has largely occupied the attention of medical men during the past year, and one, in which the public equally with the profession, has naturally manifested the most lively interest. The topic, then, which I have selected for this evening’s Address, is “ Some of the evils attending the Operations of Surgery, and the advantages of Anaesthetic Agents in counteracting them.” This is, in truth, a subject which has been frequently under discussion at our ordinary meetings, and which has occupied a considerable space in the medical journals, so that many of the observations