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acter—forcing from the bystanders involuntary laughter, and convert- 
ing that which was to the poor fellow a most tragic event into a scene 
little short of a farce.” In other cases, consciousness is less evident, 
—but not wholly extinguished. One person during the extraction of a 
tooth imagined that he was contending with a wild beast—which he 
thought he had overcome when the tooth was extracted. Another, dur- 
ing the amputation of her leg, ‘‘ thought she had been in a dream; an 
that we had hurt her leg to see if she could bear the operation which 
Was to be performed the next day.” In the majority of cases, how- 
ever,—and these probably where the ether has been most adroitly ad- 
ministered,—there has been a total loss of consciousness; and the pa- 
ents on waking up from the slumber produced, have expressed their 
Surprise not only at the operation being over, but at the apparently 
short time which it has occupied. Thus, in the operation related by 
Mr. Lawrence, the patient ‘‘expressed a fear that he had not had 
enough of the ether to produce the desired effect. When told that the 
Operation had been performed, he said—‘ Operation! operation !-—-what 
operation ??—-and seemed quite puzzled.” This is, undoubtedly, the 
ng hung over the sources of the Nile, is, to a great extent, dissipated 
by the trouble which Dr. Beke has taken to clear up the ambiguities re 
