Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1901 — Improved Methods in Surgery. [ARTICLE]

Improved Methods in Surgery.

It was in Boston that the first administration of ether for anaesthetizing the patient under the surgeon’s knife, and a Boston physician, Dr. W. B. Hidden, has perfected an appliance with which the surgeon operating secures the full effects of ether and chloroform without any waste, while the insensible subject breathes In the same amount of pure air with each inspiration as though not using the anaesthetic. The blood is thus kept oxidized, and the patient is left in the best possible condition for reaction and recovery.