Note 6 — Chapter III · POPULAR ERRORS.
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Ether and chloroform, which are now exciting so much discussion among medical men, furnish a good illustration. The value of the discovery which has recently been made in regard to them, great as it undoubtedly is, cannot as yet be exactly ascertained. But the profession will be learning more and more in relation to them, and multiplied and extended observations will at length determine their precise value, and the circumstances which should govern us in their use.