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Updated: June 24, 2025
No son of Paian he, but a fatherless, full-grown birth from the incessant matrix of Modern Time, so motherly of monstrous litters of "Gorgon and Hydra and Chimaeras dire"; you will understand what I mean when you consider the quite recent date of, say, the introduction of anaesthetics or antiseptics, the discovery of the knee-jerk, bacteriology, or even of such a doctrine as the circulation of the blood.
Surgery, with its unspeakable anguish, was rendered painless by anaesthetics. Mechanical invention was so stimulated that all the processes of labor were quickened and improved. In 1851 the Prince Consort conceived the idea of a great Exposition, which should under one roof gather all the fruits of this marvellous advance, and Sydenham Palace, a gigantic structure of glass and iron, was erected.
There were no anaesthetics in those days, but while the leg was being removed, a fife and drum corps played its hardest at the bedside, and the doughty old warrior kept time to the music with his fingers. He lived for ten years thereafter, though his paralysis never left him.
If the senescent old British lion attempts any funny business with the Russian bear it is liable to lose its umbilicus, and the surgical operation will be performed without the use of anaesthetics.
This class of drugs is administered for the purpose of producing general anaesthesia. Anaesthetics are indispensable in many surgical operations. The administration of a drug in the form of medicated steam is quite useful in combating some respiratory diseases.
Consciousness came at last with half delirium, half understanding; as emerging from the passing sleep of anaesthetics, the eye sees things and dimly registers them, before the brain has set them in any relation to life or comprehension. But Jim was roused at last, and the doctor presently held to his lips a glass of brandy.
I should have been as reluctant as any one to believe it, had I not personally experienced the effect while performing an operation which would otherwise have been very painful. Such a result could not well be reached by any course of reasoning. Has it proven in my practice what has been claimed for it a substitute for the powerful anaesthetics in minor operations in surgery?
It is full of verbal felicity, felicity sometimes of precision, sometimes of metaphoric reach; it begins with dialectic reasoning, of an extremely Fichtean and Hegelian type, but it ends in a trumpet-blast of oracular mysticism, straight from the insight wrought by anaesthetics of all things in the world and unlike anything one ever heard before.
Here and there lights burned behind closed windows; but, except for these, the world was black and still; stiller for the deadened stamping of horses in distant unseen stalls. An unmistakable taint of the hospital hung in the fresh morning air a vague hint of anaesthetics, of cooking the flat odour of sickness and open wounds.
Yet she was one of the women who occupy the background rather than the foreground of men's lives the kind of woman for whom a man must be a Columbus, discovering new worlds for himself. "Yon are a miser," the Doctor repeated. "Wouldn't you be, under the same circumstances? If it were, for example, surgical instruments anaesthetics ? And you knew that when they were gone you wouldn't get any more?"
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