The population of the earth doubles itself in 2(10 years. Coaches were first used in Kngland in 15C.1. Modern needles first came into use m 1545 The average human life is thirty-one nun yields 8,000,000 times the light of the moon. While conducting experiments with a view of determining how weak •» solution of cocaine would prove efficacious as a local antethetic. L>r. C. I. Sleich of Berlin, made a rathor remarkable discovery. Hβ found that a simple water injection under the skin with a syringe renders the flesh at that point insensible to pain. The effect of water is to create a slifjht swelling, resembling that caueed bv a stinu of a gnat. The space marked by the swelling remains insensible to pain for some minutes, so that an incision may be made \yithout causing the slightest pain.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3014, 7 November 1891, Page 5 (Supplement)
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138Untitled Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3014, 7 November 1891, Page 5 (Supplement)
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