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2 him secretly, shortly after the operation, a quantity of butter with
3 sugar, believing it would strengthen the patient. The boy began
4 to vomit in a violent manner, felt oppressed, and started from his
5 sleep; and this may possibly have accelerated his death. The other
6 boy recovered. A year previously, assisted by Dr. A. Hening, I
7 operated on a boy labouring under the same disease; the opera-
8 tion was effected after he had inhaled the vapour of ether, and he
9 remained drowsy for three days. The cure, however, was speedily
10 effected, although two large stones had to be extracted from the
11 neck of the bladder, which were with great difficulty withdrawn.
12 My colleague began to doubt, whilst I was operating, whether
13 any stone at all existed. But instead of one, there were, as I
14 have already mentioned, two large ones.
15 As regards these anaesthetic agents, I prefer the inhaling
16 of ether to the application of chloroform, although I must
17 confess, that much depends on its being properly prepared
18 and skilfully administered. Dr. Hathway performed, in
19 my presence, many successful operations with chloroform.
20 We procured ours from Kanpore. I also performed, assisted
21 by Dr. Hathway, two amputations at the gaol hospital, whilst
22 the patients were under the influence of ether, without either
23 of them uttering a word ; nevertheless, I adhere to the opinion
24 of those who assert that the tenth part of chloroform mixed with
25 ether makes a preferable composition.
26 At Lahore I made the acquaintance of a native Mahomed an
27 stone-operator, who, like the other native surgeons of the
28 east, extract the stone through the perineum, according to
29 the old method of Celsus. Two fingers of the left hand are
30 oiled, and introduced as far as possible into the rectum, whilst
31 the operator presses with his right hand somewhat above the
32 navel downwards. Thus the stone is felt with the finger
33 in the rectum, when it is drawn down and cut out of the
34 bladder through the middle flesh. But if they are not able to
35 bring it down, which is often the case with adults, they are com-
36 pelled to leave it, being ignorant of the use of European surgical
37 instruments, or the lateral operation. They cure the wounds