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Operations under the use of chloroform and ether, in the Second 

 Division of the New York Hospital. 



Total — 18 cases. 



In 1 1 Chloroform was used. 

 In 5 Ether. 

 In 2 Not stated. 

 Total in both Divisions, 37 cases. 

 Tt is added, that numerous cases of minor surgery occurred, in which one or the 

 other of these agents was employed, and of which no record was kept, as most of 

 the patients were not inmates of the hospital, and left immediately after being relieved. 

 Amongst these, besides a number of cases of tooth drawing and opening of abscesses, 

 three cases of dislocation of the humerus were satisfactorily reduced under the influence 

 of chloroform ; in one case the bone had been out for three weeks. A dislocation of the 

 same bone of six weeks' duration, was also reduced with like success, under the use of 

 ether, the extension being effected in this instance by means of Jarvis' apparatus. 



