_North China Daily News_.
Yet we dare say the poor fellow meant well.
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"In the preliminary examination of patients the author
introduces a test which is new to us; two or three breaths
having been drawn through the nose, this organ is then punched
by the anæsthetist, whilst the patient holds his breath as
long as possible."--_The Practitioner_.
What the victim of this novel treatment says after recovering his
breath is happily withheld from us.
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