ANÆSTHETICS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1376, 29 February 1912, Page 3

ANÆSTHETICS.

NOVEL AMERICAN PLAN'. A nnw nietliod of administering minesIhctics, nvoked Ijy II r. AlcHsior, of tlin liockcfcllcr Scieiitilic Inslitule, was Iricil very successfully on January IS, in NewYork, iind warmly apurovpil by many physicians (says the N'cw York corrpspoiulvnt of l.lifi I/nulon "Daily lolcBraph"). A silver tube is placed down tho wind|)ino of the patient, and limn ether mixed with nir is forced into tho lungs with a bellows. The return current of nir passes through the space between the tube and the wall of the windpipe, keeping up a .system of ventilation. Thus nrlifloial resnifation is established, the Kiinply of oxyj;en replenished, and the. carbon dioxide removed. It is claimed that all dniißcrs arising from an insufficient supply of oxygen nro eliminated by tin; discovery, and" that with the other unpleasant E«[iielne of anneslhelits. are entirely avoided. No fatalities have attended a' hundred experiments, and at the liocknfuller Institute Dr. Mclbcr's inothod has siipplanl.-d all others. The medical papers describe the proce-fs in great, detail. Iml withhold their judgment until im,ro dnln hit- nvnilaWe. 11. was the Koukefeller Inslilnte wliirh discovered the remedy for tho lamous "lioali-wovni," and treated many patients in the Southern states veu; tucceisfully.