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Excerpt from Circular: Morton's LetheonTwo recent cases serve to confirm, and one I think to decide. The great utility of this process. On Saturday, the 7th Nov., a: the Mass. General Hospital, the right leg of a young girl was em putated above the knee, by Dr. Hayward, for disease of this joint. Being made to inhale the preparation, after protesting her inability to do so from the pungency of the vapor, she became insensible in about five minutes. The last circumstance she was able. To te call was the adjustment of the mouthpiece of the apparatus, afier which she was unconscious until she heard some remark at the time of securing the vessels - one of the last steps of the opera tion. Of the incision she knew nothing, and was unable to say, upon my asking her, whether or not the limb had been removed. She refused to answer several questions during the operation, and was evidently completely insensible to pain or other external in ¿uences. This operation was followed by another, consisting of the removal of a part of the lower jaw, by Dr. Warren. The pa tient was insensible to the pain of the first incision, though she recovered her consciousness in the course of a few minutes.The character of the lethargic state'which follows this inhalation, is peculiar. The patient loses his individuality and awakes after a certain period, either entirely unconscious of what has taken place, or retaining only a faint recollection of it. Severe pain is sometimes remembered as being of a dull character, sometimes the operation is supposed by the patient to be performed upon somebody else. Certam patients, whose teeth have been extracted, remember the application of the extracting instruments, yet none have been conscious of any real pain.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.