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Excerpt from An�sthetics and Their Administration: A Text-Book for Medical and Dental Practitioners and Students
As will be seen by reference to the last chapter, the medico-legal aspects of surgical anaesthesia have received that masterly treatment at the hands of Mr. Digby cotes-preedy which, from the name and position he has made for himself at the bar, we might be certain they would receive. I here tender him my very best thanks for his valuable contribution. I had hoped that before going to press Mr. Cotes-preedy would have been able to chronicle, in his article, the passage of an Anaesthetics Act protecting the public against the use of anaesthetics by unqualified persons. It is a deplorable fact, however, that in spite of the representations of the Home Office Departmental Committee, which was appointed to inquire into the question, of the General Medical Council, and of practically every academic and professional body whose opinions were ascertained, no steps have yet been taken by the Government to pass into law the draft Bill which has now been before them for the past year. That the second decade of the twentieth century should have opened whilst it is still legally permissible for the most ignorant and untrained person to administer an anaesthetic is, I venture to submit, a reproach to our country, and one which I trust will be removed at no distant date.
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