Excerpt from The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 183: July 29, 1920 Anesthesia. I feel that the anesthetic of choice is gas oxygen. The reason for this is that even though we may not; have found it, there is so apt to be latent tuberculosis of the lungs that may be flared up by ether. 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.