NEW ANÆSTHETIC

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 536, 1 June 1920, Page 2

NEW ANÆSTHETIC

Uq-LOSS OF COIMSGfOUSNESS.

Development of a new anaestheic, "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 and dressing of wounds, but in dentistry. The anaesthetic was described ai " a new type of ether—highly refined and modified by addition of certain gases which give to it these new and desirable characteristics." It is claimed that its ability to produce insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness opens up an entirelynew Held of usefulness, including the large class of operations which are now performed without any attempt whatever to eliminate pain. The most common of these are in dentistry. where the new ether will render painless such operations as nerve treating, removal of roots and drilling and filling of teeth and in obstretnYal cases, where only a small amount of the other 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 of abscesses and changing of packings and dressings. Tests which have boon conducted with the new other at various hospitals and clinics have demonstrated that it is thoroughly lii'actical and that its use is i'-.(lowed !>v no undesirable effects.