Modern Pain Deadening Discovery For Wellington Ambulances

Chronicle (Levin), 2 June 1949, Page 5

Modern Pain Deadening Discovery For Wellington Ambulances

WELLINGTON, June 2. T.inorrow the Wellington Free Ambulance will, it is be;!ev' ! ' • * Pie Gie fi:* J ;ir> bulance service in the world to use [ Y! * dtwdetilng discovery known as the trilite innu!t- " MP-thcd v/i's described today by the superintendenf Mliu ion l yi Ambulance, Mr. Roy Olsen, as one of jS", 'b*.r . l«d*\v tr.l in ambulance technique and one 1 b adojited universally. . , ; • •y'-r. je.vd in vapour form, about 20 breaths from the Jilip; ni(K causf .s the suiToreiyto lose all feeling of pain Jaining full con.-ciousnessfand keeping the sense of yniep . 1 [ / • apiiaratus 1* a seven-inch steel cylinder with the ciri,Rr ' b?: " l!f a s*"])(ince. A glass capsule containing the ^ ;'-bl !** fited on to a spring in the centre. When nup, a srjaji mask to cover the nose and mouth is jj.!'1' ihe iop. breaking the glass. The liquid turns l*' ;• t y nr and is inhaled through the mask. y - whole oii-iit weighs nine ounces and can easily be ■ arn . ) *>, a ooeket. Ifn *i Olse*.] said that the inhaler had been tested and |jum. ,,, have no harmful effects. It had been demonstrated ■ p w.. • ndh-al advisers of the Wellington Free Ambulance -'M Uf doctors' of the Wellington Hospital.