A Plea for the Recognition of the Treatment of Disease by Intravenous Injections, with a Theory as to Action of Iodoform in Phthisis

first imagining such a thing to be possible rested with Sir Christopher Wren. He detailed his first attempts in 1665 or '69, at which the Hon. Robert Boyle and Wilkins assisted, mentioning that to Boyle belonged the honour of having first suggested its application to human beings. In a very incomplete review he traversed the work done in the following centuries. He pointed out that about the last quarter of the nineteenth century a change came over the method, owing to the manufacture of fine hollow needles, and a general improvement in apparatus. This enabled an operator to administer with certainty, safety, and practically no injury to the veins,