REPLACE ETHER?
RUSSIAN USE OF ELECTRICITY. LONDON, January 4. Electrical currents which paralyse the central nervous system may soon replace ether and chloroform if experiments now proceeding at Leningrad are successful, says the "Daily Herald." Dr. Yakovleff, of the Central Gynaecological Kesearch Institute has already carried out dozens of operations on electrically anaesthetised rabbits. Recently the doctor satisfactorily tested the method on two colleagues. He claims that electrical anaesthetic affects only the nervous system whereas the usual anaesthetic poisons the whole body. Rabbits which lie insensible under the electric current immediately frolic around when the current is turned off.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 3, 5 January 1937, Page 7
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