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Show GREAT STEP IN MEDICINE New Discovery Will Hake the Use of Anaesthetics Perfectly Safe. 1 NEW YORK, Jul 4. If prolonged and general tests prove to be satisfactory satisfac-tory as the preliminary ones, medical men believe that a formula Just discovered discov-ered by a well-known physician of this city will revolutionise the science of anaesthetics, freeing it from the dangers dan-gers of ether and chloroform as at present pres-ent administered. The process consists in the main of an invention by which 2 per cent of chloroform and 98 per cent of oxygen are combined with mathematical exactness. exact-ness. Instead of being dependent on the careful administration of the anaesthetic anaes-thetic drop by drop the apparatus acts automatically; keeping the chloroform mixing with the oxygen in a 2 per-cent solution all the time, obviating any chance of the patient getting too Tmich and doing away with the risk of giving too much. |