The Substitute for Chloroform.—The new agent, amylene, for the prevention of pain during surgical operations, was used for the first time at the Bristol General Hospital a day or two ago, and with complete success. The operation was one well calculated to test the powers of the drug,' being Chopartfs amputation of the foot. The anaesthetic properties of amylene were urged a short time ago before the medical Society of London, by Dr. Shaw, who had employed it successfully in several operations in the metropolis. The surgeons at the Bristol Hospital speak of the insensibility to pain under amylene as being perfect, and say that its anaesthetic effects are of a.shorter duration than those of chloroform.
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Colonist, Issue 12, 1 December 1857, Page 2
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