Story of Anaesthetics
HERE was inspiration in Mrs. Freed’s choice of topic "The Story of Anaesthetics" for her new morning talk series from 2YA, for there is just
sufficient of the medical flavour about it to lure listeners and, once lured, they will find it hard to get away, even though Mrs. Freed has been unable to produce first-hand accounts of "My Operation-Before and After." Instead we have Messrs, Wells, Morton and Jackson, treated as biographies rather than case-histories, an amputation or two (but strictly in the background), a touching bedside-scene with a repentant Morton proclaiming: his discovery to the four winds rather than earn a fortune and humanity’s opprobrium, and a delightful character called Ebenezer Frost, Morton’s first patient, who came to Morton’s door with bandaged face "in that stage of mingled hope and consternation so familiar to all dental surgeons." But I feel the best is yet to come, We are not nearly up to Queen Victoria, and I am looking forward to hearing a detailed account of -that physician-turned-theologian, Dr. James Y. Simpson.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 469, 18 June 1948, Page 10
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176Story of Anaesthetics New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 469, 18 June 1948, Page 10
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