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Show Millions Saved by Anesthetics. There Is no guessing how many thousands of lives wero lost before the days of anesthesia merely be cause the pain of the operation necessary nec-essary to save them was too great to he borne. Anesthesia predates asepsis by thirty years, nnd so belongs to another period lu the history of surgery, sur-gery, but It Is so fundamental to all the wonders that surcery Is now working work-ing that lis discovery Is an Inevltablo pint .if .tr.- ".'.'count of surgery's wonderful won-derful achievements. Modern surgery sur-gery Is not only painless nnd germ-less: germ-less: It Is also bloodless. A patient can Iih opened and his stomach taken out. and yrjt hardly lose moro blood than If he had accidentally cut his Cugor. |