ELECTRIC CURRENT
USE AS ANAESTHETIC RUSSIAN DOCTOR'S METHOD (Received January 4, 11.'2?> p.m.) LONDON. Jan. 4 The Daily Herald says electric currents which paralyse the central nervous system may soon replace ether and chloroform if experiments now proceeding at Leningrad are successful. Dr. Yakovleff, of the Central Gynaecological Research Institute has already carried out dozens of operations on electrically anaesthetised rabbits. Recently tbe doctor satisfactorily tested the method on two colleagues. He claims that electrical anaesthetic affects only the nervous system whereas tbe 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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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22618, 5 January 1937, Page 9
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