ANAESTHETIC PUMP.
GAS INTO LUNGS. NEW OPERATIONS POSSIBLE. MAT CURE " INCURABLE." ' (Special.—By Air Mall.) LOXDOX, January 1. Doctors all over the world are interested in a new method of administering an anaesthetic devised at the Newcastle General Hospital and tried with success. It is possible that blindness, paralysis, | insanity, epilepsy, deafness and other "inciirabe" defects' will become curable by means of this discovery. Patients are first anaesthetised in the ordinary way. Then a metal tube is passed down the throat into the lungs, into which anaesthetic gas is pumped direct. The tube is strapped to the patient's face. This leaves the surgeon more freedom than formerly, and the patient can easily be moved to any position. Operations can thus be conducted with greater speed, the surgeon is able to explore further into the brain, while the risk of shock from the anaesthetic is reduced. It is anticipated that great strides will lie made in research into diseases of the living bruin, and that long, complicated operations never before attempted will be possible. Investigation of brain tuirtotirs, in which surgeons have made rapid progress in recent years, will also be aided. i
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 21, 26 January 1939, Page 30
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191ANAESTHETIC PUMP. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 21, 26 January 1939, Page 30
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