Excerpt from The American Year-Book of Anesthesia Analgesia
Appearance of the Year-Book for 1917-18 has been Jclay-I by Hie exigencies and demands of the World War. Conditions of conflict also made ii imii ossicle to have the Year-Book as International in icjw as had been hoped for. However, the Editor ha* lieen fortunate in being aide to secure extended reports on almost all the worthwhile advances of anesthesia and analgesia in the surgery of war. This collection of data, with the verdict of the authors ivo love gathered it, should at least persuade llte heads of tlie various Allied Army Medical Services, that anesthesia was not handled as it might have been, had those in responsible positions been amenable to more immediate advice. On the contrary, some of the anesthetic methods, introduced to expedite military surgery, are finding a place for themselves in civilian practice for the iCTc fit of all concerned.
Readers of this Year-Book will tooie with pleasure that fundamental studies in the pharmaco-pliy>io-|PSYChology of anesthesia and analgesia have not been neglected. In tact many of the studies along these lines are of cxce|*h>nal merit. As many of them Itav a direct lien ring on the clinical handling of patients submitting to operation under narcosis, they are doubly significant and valuable.
An effort has been made to collate p*|xrs dealing with the same subject or its pertinent phases. In so doing some duplication has occurred but differences of opinion, technic and research love not been eliminated. As stated prct only, both tlve science and practice of anesthesia and analgesia arc 'till in a condition of flux and many of the controversial disputes still need indisputable facts for their settlement.
Again tlie Editor of ilc Year-Book lias attempted to make it appeal to all those progressive income icrs of tlx: alKyl profession' and specialties, who hi any manner come in contact with the science r practice of anesthesia and analgesia. Besides covering the progress during 1917-18 in the- subjects, tlx- Year-Book provides the anesthetist. dentist, re arcli-worker and surgeon with tho-e special advances that leave a direct bearing on hi- individual requirements.
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