New Form of Painless Dentistry.
1 According- to a report sent to the Washington Bureau of Manufactures by the United States Consul at Bamberg, a den- . tist at Geneva, Dr Radard, after having for several years made experiments with the narcotic effect of blue light, claims
that a complete narcosis can Be obtained if the rays of a blue' electric light aret brought, to bear- on the- hufinm eye, whiles all other rays of light, particularly of day-*-light, are kept off it. The narcosis tmu* obtained is so complete that dental operations, such as pulling or filling teeth, etc-.', v can be executed ,>p£ith.out causing the patient the least Wnount of pain. While tha effecti of. thiT bfee fays :; ib" very steoTnfif, t&at of; ,T l iqleikbJ.ue,,,an<i trreen>..rai«,i^.Jeas'-ioen-sive, and yellow or i;e<l rays show; no^ecb >, . r.\ - r' ' r.i -'' ' - '
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Otago Witness, Issue 2805, 18 December 1907, Page 76
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138New Form of Painless Dentistry. Otago Witness, Issue 2805, 18 December 1907, Page 76
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