Substitute for Anaesthesia.
A Dutch physician made a. discovery while travelling in Java. He chanced to stop one day at Sourabaza, where the Javanese maintain a large hospital for prisoners. His attention was drawn to the fact that in the treatment of such cases as necessitated an anaesthetic the native doctors did not resort to a drug, but instead they were manifestly reducing their patient to a condition of stupor by compressing the carotid artery with their fingers. The Dutch physician was so much impressed wiili this primitive method of rendering the patient at least partially insensible to pain,that he made a careful study of it He discovered that, this method of anaesthesia, although unknown in modern surgery, was in all probability in vogue among the ancients.
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Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 11 June 1915, Page 3
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127Substitute for Anaesthesia. Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 11 June 1915, Page 3
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