NEW ANAESTHETIC

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 162, 5 April 1920, Page 5

NEW ANAESTHETIC

— —*___ NO LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS. Development pf a new anaesthetic, "which eliminates pain without loss of consciousness and produces virtually no nausea," was announced in New York recently. The discovery, it was claimed, would permit of elimination.of pain not only in obstretrical cases audMressing of wounds, but in dentistry. The anaesthetic was described as "a new type of other—highly refined and modified by addition of certain gases which give to it these now and desirable characteristics." It is claimed that its ability to produce insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness opens ( up an entirely new field of usefulness,.including the 'large class of operations which arc now performed without any attempt whatever to eliminate pain. The most common of these are in dentistry, whVe the new ether will render painless such operations as nerve treating, removal of roots and drilling and filling of teeth, and in obstretrical cases, whew only a small amount .of tho ether is required to relieve the pain. ' The anaesthetic is said to be also especially suited to relieving suffering ,in such painful, practices as sewing of wounds opening and treatment vi abscesses, and changing of packings ■ and dressings. Tests which hate been . conducted with the new etTTer at various hospitals and clinics have demonstrated that it is thoroughly nractical, and that its' use is followed by no undesirable eftects.