NEW ANAESTHETIC

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 325, 5 January 1937, Page 5

NEW ANAESTHETIC

Russian Discovery Replaces Chloroform. Press Association —Copyright, London, January 4. The Daily Herald says that electric currents which paralyse the central nervous system may soon replace ether and chloroform if experiments proceeding in Leningrad are successful. - Dr. Yakovlev, of the Central Gynaecological Research Institute, already has carried out dozens of operations in electrically-anaesthetised rabbits, and recently satisfactorily tested the method on two colleagues. It is claimed that the electrical anaesthetic affects only the nervous system, whereas the usual anaesthetic’ poisons the whole body. Rabbits which lay insensible under the electric current Immediately frollicked rotund when the current was turned off.