...Listen, Buchanan, Longet, John Snow, Simpson, Bernard, Clover.] CHLOROFORM. James Young Simpson 1847 ' ' I'll imitate the pities of old Surgeons To this lost limb — who ere they show their art Cast me asleep, then cut the diseas'd part." T. MIDDLETON, "Women Beware Women," iv. i, 1657. [Guthrie,...

...which was mandragora steeped in wine. And one of England's old poets, writing in 1657, says: — " I'll imitate the pities of old surgeons To this lost...art, Cast one asleep, then cut the diseased part." Not that we would by any means detract from those of our own country the honor due to them for the...

...have used it for the purposes of surgical anaesthesia. Simpson quotes the lines of Middleton (1617) : "I'll imitate the pities of old surgeons To this lost limb — who ere they show their art Cast me asleep, then cut the diseased part." Greatrakes (1661), by mearjs of passes over the subject's body...

...following allusion by Middleton, in his play called " Women beware Women ! " is not without interest : — I'll imitate the pities of old surgeons To this lost...art, Cast one asleep, then cut the diseased part. William Bulleyn, the author of " A Bulwark of Defence against Sickness," who practised as a surgeon...

...too, in his play, Women Beware Women, written in 1657, has the following interesting reference : " I'll imitate the pities of old surgeons To this lost limb who, ere they show their art, Cast me asleep ; then cut the diseased part." Besides drugs, mechanical means were also employed to cause...

...following allusion by Middleton, in his play called "Women, Beware Women," is not without interest : "I'll imitate the pities of old surgeons To this lost...art, Cast one asleep, then cut the diseased part." Besides mandragora, opium, Indian hemp and other plants with narcotic properties already referred to,...

...his tragedy known as "Women beware Women," refers in the following terms to anesthesia in surgery: "I'll imitate the pities of old surgeons To this lost...art, Cast one asleep; then cut the diseased part." Of course, of all the narcotics in use by educated men, opium has been, since its discovery and introduction,...

...in the well-worn citation from Thomas Middleton's tragedy of "Women Beware Women" (Act IV, sc. 1): I'll imitate the pities of old surgeons To this lost...art, Cast one asleep, then cut the diseased part. Yet, in spite of his wide experience, Guy de Chauliac was on the whole a reactionary in the important...

...Elizabethan dramatist. Thomas Middlelon, says: — I'll imitate the pities of old Surgeons To this lost limh, who, ere they show their art Cast one asleep; then cut the diseased part.|| * 6 drachms. t loco cit. sufra. t Le Gyidon pour les Barbiers et les Chirugiens (1538) § " A Bulwark...

...dramatist, Middleton, even portrayed an age of surgical anaesthesia, when he wrote in one of his plays : " I'll imitate the pities of old surgeons To this lost...art, Cast one asleep; then cut the diseased part." But we know that none of these procedures, and " not poppy, nor mandragora, nor all the drowsy syrups...