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On the inhalation of the vapour of ether in surgical operations : containing a description of the various stages of etherization, and a statement of the result of nearly eighty operations in which ether has been employed in St. George's and University College Hospitals / By John Snow.

John Snow

Date:: 1847

Credit: On the inhalation of the vapour of ether in surgical operations : containing a description of the various stages of etherization, and a statement of the result of nearly eighty operations in which ether has been employed in St. George's and University College Hospitals / By John Snow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$2.—University Cotuecre Hospitat. Operations. No. of Cases. Recoveries. Deaths. Thigh 3 3 0 Bel aga ser 1 0 1 = 3 \Arm...... ] 0 i = oe pe i = ——— = Total ... > 3 2 Lithotomy . 3 ine 0 3.—Botn HosPitaLs COMBINED. Operations. No. of Cases. Recoveries. Deaths. Thighceess 14 12 2 o Veg ios. 8 6 2 6 Se PAEM Goat ee 2 2 1 l Ss =) = Fore-arm . . 2 2 0 =< * Lotalss,.: 26 | 21 5 Lithotomy . i) 5 0 The first Table mcludes the two amputations m which Mr. Bumpsted administered the ether, and it comprises, I believe, all the amputations at St. George's Hospital since January 28, except one—an an:putation of the leg after an injury, which was performed with- out ether, and I think in the night-time—(the patient$