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Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1778, 14 September 1874, Page 3

Shocking- Carelessness.—A Detroit paper, noting the fact that a man fell down dead while combing his hair, says.,: " And yet there are people _who will persist in that dangerous habit." The prospectus of a girl's school at Pesth promises'in regard to mythology to teach all that is necessary to the comprehension of the modern opera bouffe. .

A book-binder had a book brought him to be rebound. After the job was finished he made the following entry in the day-book: " For repairing the Way to Heaven, 25 cents."

■ A Pebfect Anesthetic. —A French surgeon, M. Ore, claims to have brought anaesthetics to perfection. He says:— " To be able to determine the quantity of the antithetic substance to produce insensibility for as long a time as may be necessary, and then, the operation being completed, to dispel at will the effects obtained, is the true solution of anaesthesia." The agent that he employs is chloral, mixed with three times its weight of water* and injected into a rein of the patient by means of a graduated syringe terminating in a small fine point. His agent for rousing the patient from the profound sleep produced by > the chloral is a powerful electrical apparatus, of which the poles, in the case described by him, were applied to the neck and the epigistrinm. In this case a strong young man was reduced to a state of perfect insensibility by the injection of 22 gramme of the solution of chloral into one of the veins of his arm. The injection occupied ten minutes. The patient was sufiering from necrosis of the heel bone and the operation, which' consisted of laying bare the bone and removing the diseased part by means of a gouge, occupied tweiity-five minutes. .During the whole of this agreeable process the patient slept.most calmly. He did not utter the smallest cry, or show the least sign of suffering. The absolute immobility of his features sufficiently denoted the complete annihilation of sensibility. 'When; roused by the application of electricity he remained in a sort of drunken state for more than an hour, but he declared that he felt nothing of the severe operation he "had undergone. Of course it is impossible to judge from a single case of the general applicability of such a process as this, but it must be confessed that, if Mr. Ore's anaesthetic system can be depended upon to produce sue*" results as the above,, it will prove of the highest value, especially in prolonged operations.''— Globe. :; : : ; „ :,

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