Advantages of Regional Anæsthesia in Poor Surgical Risk Cases with Special Reference to Refrigeration Method. (A Report of 16 Poor Risk Cases.)

By M. MUKHERJEE Resident Surgeon, Medical College Hospital, Calcutta Selection of a proper anaesthetic for poor surgical risk cases always worries a surgeon. A 100 per cent safe general anaesthetic would have been best for both surgeons and patients but no such anaesthetic agent has yet been found out or thought of. General anasthesia.?Morland Smith says that general anaesthesia is a temporary pathological state, but with the improvement in methods of administration of the last few decades, there is