Principles of the Art of Anæsthesia (Being the Lectures Delivered to the Students of the Robertson Medical School, Nagpur)

After a careful analysis the most generous critic will find difficulty in pointing to any merit in this book. The reader is unavoidably driven to the conclusion that the personal experience of the author in any but the most elementary forms of anaesthesia_ i9 extremely limited. The casual dismissal in four lines of the technique of administration of an endotracheal anaesthetic does not suggest practical knowledge of the subject. The book abounds with gross inaccuracies such as the statement that the corneal reflex should never be lost in surgical anaesthesia (this, incidentally, is contradicted three pages later). Nitrous oxide is described