Show millions saved by anesthetics there is no guessing how many thousands ot lives were lost before the days of anesthesia merely be cause the pain of the operation nee essary to save them was too great to be borne anesthesia predates asepsis by thirty years and belongs to another period in the history ot sui gery but it Is so fundamental to au the wonders that surgery Is now work ing that its discovery la an inevitable part of any account of surgery s won darful achievements modern aur gery Is not only painless and germ less it Is also bloodless A patient can be opened and his stomach taken out and yet hardly lose more blood than it he had accidentally cut his I 1 finger |