ROYAL INFIRMARY—APPLICATION OF ETHER
... |ROYAL INFIRMARY-APPLICATION OF ETHER. Yesterday the ether was again resorted to, in the operating theatre, and with various success. Professor Syme bad to per- form the excision of the elbow joint-the patient being a man of colour. On the first attempt at the inhalation, the appara- tus broke; it was tried a second time, but without the desired effect, so that the operation had to proceed in ...