Anæsthesia in District Hospitals

Sir,?The article by Lieut-Colonel Cox in the August issue of the Indian Medical Gazette emphasizing the dangers of chloroform anaesthesia deserves "wide publicity in this country where the subject of anaesthetics and their administration appears to be badly neglected in the medical curriculum. Unlike many other highly necessary reforms, improvement in this branch of medicine does not necessitate a large expenditure of public money. Lieut.-Colonel Cox quite rightly condemns the almost universal use in this country of chloroform as a general anaesthetic agent. With this I am in complete agreement although I am sufficiently old fashioned not to advocate its complete abolition. As a physician obliged?certainly not ' doomed '?to give anaesthetics, I have acquired a fair degree of familiarity with various kinds of anaesthetics (excluding those recently introduced) and methods of administration both in this country and in England. I have come