"DRUNKEN SLEEP"
RUSSIAN DOCTORS' USE CF ALCOHOL NEW YORK, March 5.' An anaesthetic which puts; the patients into a drunken sleep with few after-effects is being used in Russia, says the ' American Review of Soviet Medicine.' Tho anaesthetic consists almost entirely of alcohol and is administered by injections. After three loz doses the patients begin to show signs of inebriation, and shortly afterward they drop off into a sleep which lasts from two to five hours. , When the patients awake ' they are irrational for a period and hare to be watched. About 6 per cent, have hangovers and 4 per cent, have headaches.
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Evening Star, Issue 25426, 6 March 1945, Page 6
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