TY - JOUR AU - Wevill, Lucien B. AB - CYCLOPROPANE.* LUCIEN B. F.R.C.S.Ed. WEVILL, By THERE have been remarkable in anaesthetics developments not in the last and these have twenty-five years, developments been without their for the The technique importance surgeon. of administration has been and anaesthetic enlarged apparatus has become The chromium shiny plate, delightfully complex. the of little and the inevitable and knobs, dials, meters, multiplicity to of rubber are an source of yards delight tubing, unending the modern and are I rather with anaesthetist, viewed, suspect, a tolerant amusement not unmixed with those by contempt who were in the more of days greater brought up spacious Not have methods but several new only simplicity. changed, anaesthetic have been and it is one of these introduced, agents newer I wish to to your agents?cyclopropane?that bring notice this evening. is a and was first discovered Nature.?Cyclopropane gas, a German in 1882. more seems by chemist, Freund, Nothing to have been heard of it until when Lucas and Henderson 1929, its rediscovered it in Canada and on and investigated reported anaesthetic Since then it has been used widely properties. is and on in Canada and America and it reported extensively ; from there that the first of the TI - Cyclopropane *Read at a meeting of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh held on 1st February 1939. JF - Edinburgh Medical Journal DA - 1939-06-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/pubmed-central/cyclopropane-read-at-a-meeting-of-the-medico-chirurgical-society-of-BGvPrCbp07 SP - T70 EP - T80 VL - 46 IS - 6 DP - DeepDyve ER -