Excerpt from The Canadian Journal of Medicine and Surgery, Vol. 10: A Journal Published Monthly in the Interest of Medicine and Surgery; July to December, 1901 Therefore, I could not help being overpowered by the greatest stupefaction when lately, at a meeting of a medical association, I heard an honorable confrere making without a frown the fol lowing declaration: The practice of anesthesia is the easiest and the simplest thing in the world. Anybody whoever can properly administer an anesthetic, and it is not necessary to possess so much intelligence and experience to do it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.