A SUBSTITUTE FOR ANAESTHESIA.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXXI, Issue 4131, 16 June 1920, Page 4

A SUBSTITUTE FOR ANAESTHESIA.

A Dutch physician made a discorery while travelling in Java. He chanced to stop one day at Sourat baza, where the Javanese maintain a large hospital for prisoners. His attention was drawn to the fact that In the treatmept of such ..cases as necessitated an anaesthetic the native doctors did not resort to a drug, but instead they were manifestly reducing their patient to a condition t>f stupor by compressing the carotid irtery with their lingers. The Dutch physician was sb much impressed With this primitive method of ren< dering the patient at least partially Insensible to pain, that he made a careful study of It. He discovered that this method of anaesthesia, although unknown in modern surgery, was in all probability in vogue among the ancient^; : .