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Show interesting Scientific dis- COVERY, Moxs. VEtrEAU", tho eminent Paris snrgpon, stated recently, to the-Academy Of Scfenecs that aii honorable Rurgcon, named Brocca,, had made, tho following experiment: lie bad placed before tho nice of a person, between, the person's eyes, and at a distance of fifteen or twehv ty tentimelres (a centimtrt is a French measure of leugth--0,39a,708 inch in valuo) a rather brilliant object (un objtt .jxniriitt(). Ifako the person look fixedly at this object. In a few minutes the person will squint, and wIIIboou fall Into catalepsy and bo spontaneously deprived de-prived of nil sensibility, Jo tho experiments made tho insensibility insensibil-ity of tho patient was so great that the patient's' head was alternately moved from one sido to the other, aud his" whole person per-son was moved. He no recollection'of any of them when he returned to his nor--mal state. This singular discovery mallo Mons. Brocca sujpect that this state of jnsensi-bility-mlghtboasperfecbfts that obtained by anaesthetic agents. Ho-determined to mako experimeuta with iv and found that the state of insensibility produced was us perfect as that obtained by tho use of , tether and chloroform) i Three experiments out of fiva attempts 1 are reported as successful. In one of these cases a man tmderwent a surgical i operation for an abscess, which required ' '"xi " '' " 1 " . 4('fl'-.p i aa important Inclsionl The insensibility lasted t orlvfelvd iBinates!ftef the ojpK cralids; The patieu't1' was, entirely' wU Poncldus,.o,ail. that lido taken pIacoi-f.'? The expc'riracttta m'entipnqd by .Mdris, Vclpcau inay H easily reponed.hy.any body "Their iiaportancdln point; of jcpn-omyi jcpn-omyi awl1 oney, ahd lifey scripus. Chlproforp and ether. aroibdtltostly "af-tides, "af-tides, and their uso.iV attcudfdjyfitlj dan j gcr They havo ilestroyetLmdrp thau one life, ainl medical men aro, stUl vlunabJo to vaticlsatd la what stated of tho, body, they taay ljtf Med iaocuously, ;apd wbcnhej wilfextldguish Mdtis. VclpCanfi announcing ?tlu3 hew discovcVjr, sald:"lt 19, a Btrango?;phfe noracnon. so strange ;ai phe.horo;npp, that X feel oblrgta to take 60fiao,oratoribaJ pre cautions; lp speaking of it tor tho; Academy of Scienccc - I .feclidbligcd ;.to , . draw assurance from .tho-fotcftts - apdjehon; orabltf chdractcrcof Mi Brocca;bo has charged tno wHUvtUcr-ddty'df giving, his discovery dscrul;publicity,dnd,ht thPJsamd timp'.ot asserting . u'a M'?. of this remarkable ; phenomenon."? Jn - sMons. VjftTpdau, tlierefore, doid not 'pref sent tlio - ndwf systdm Afadffisthesia for jjanacea", but Jw says.;td .tnedical.meuj. iUsd it;' 8tedyjfc'qfen sH fill occasions; arid,perhaps- you may cpn tributeUo.enttdwBcicncd with. ' tho new nicaita ofallbViatlb.suffcring humanity;' |