A NEW ANAESTHETIC

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 141, 18 June 1927, Page 20

A NEW ANAESTHETIC

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The German, meijieal world ia watching experiments with a new anaesthetic elvolyed. in the laboratories of' the German Pyestuffs' Federation, for which advantages ovor; ether or'chloroform arfl claimed, states the Berlin correspondent, of Associated Press. The phemical composition'of j;he preparation, known as E 107, is withheld for the.time being..But its manner of working and effects, jipori the patieut, both during the period of it* potency and ufterward, have been described by Professor Ernßt Vng^r, who with other prominent. German physicians and surgeons, has used it i}i numerous clinics a series of experiments upon aninials.

.The ana.esthetic, introduced into the intestines, causes the patient to lose consciousness withjn n'vg minutes and emo fully under tho influence after seven or eight minutes have elapsed, Professor Unger averted in a, lecture. He declared thpt nervousness, ehokiug, and reflexes Wore absent and that absolute relaxation is attained, >vMh a normal pulse, no alteration in blood pressure, and natural breathing. The aftereffects, in a majority of cases, are declared to foe -nil, there being no stomach sickness, while the system absorbs the anaesthetic so' quickly that wiCliin ait hoiir no traces are left. One of the corollary- claims is that it, is effective in inducing "twilight sleep" in childbirth.