ANAESTHETICS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 March 1923, Page 1

ANAESTHETICS.

AN EXPERT’S WARNING. CHKISTfTII’RCH. March 2i. The danger in admini-lering an.c.stholies while a patient is sitting or hall reclining was stressed hy the Coroner, Mr W,weni YYilxon. S.YL. at an inquest to-day. The ease was th.it ol Emily liriinicoinbe, aged 19. "ho died under all anaesthetic "bile having some teeth extracted at a -mgery. Dr Pearson. Pathologist at Christchurch Hospital, who made a post mortem examination of the deceased, said that death had been one to heart la ii n re. an enluated hy an anaesthetic, i if pijiilt d nut that an anaesthetic administered u> a patient in a dentists chair might he dangerous. It should lie administered with the patient ro(lining in a proper manner cu an i j,,. rating table. Tim Coroner returned a vertln-l m aeeordauee with the medical evidence and added a rider embodying Dr I’,arson’s statement as to the method of administering the niineslhi-lic. Mi,.- Rrlmieombe. "To tame troni luc Rals-iia di-trief. was the -ev.nth member of her j'amilv lo d:o suddenly. <)ue aunt died under cidnrolorm ; another silt lililibed in the street; a third dun while being lifted out ol bed: and three uncles also died snddeul.'. A NEW DISCOVERY. LONDON. March 2L i’l'e! . . el- Giiu--. of Freiburg. Ini' di-overed a new general anat-ilieue termer being masked hy t.i,c a.h11,,<l ~<l ,t nine. UK assistant

juVkilv submitted lo < xperiim-ntatio". |U. became insensible to pain m hi I’M ii iivw inimitos. '.More than five hundred opernuouN hove sii'(V li'.vil pOl'toMM <1 sliced""! >*'!'• •