Dr. Price stood ready to administer the anaesthetic.

Poignant feeling brings its own anaesthetic.

The first to discover an efficient surgical anaesthetic was Crawford W. Long, of Georgia.

The Victorian age introduced anaesthetics and antiseptic surgery, developed photography, the sciences of chemistry and physics, of biology and zoölogy, of botany and geology.

"Perhaps you have never needed an anaesthetic?" he said coolly.

We have now trustworthy local anaesthetics, the chief of which is cocaine, wherewith we are able to anaesthetize the part to be operated on without rendering the patient unconscious, and the co-operation that a conscious patient may be able to render is sometimes valuable.