Show SURGERY GAINS PAINLESS KNIFE New v l IC Method Will Be Boon eon Where here Chloroform Would d I Endanger Health I ih New V C York Tork Au Aug A 30 A m method thod of ot performing operations simple rest resi of oC New at as ii explained b by painlessly Dr J A. A I L. L Is Sorest So- So so 80 York in the Journal of ot American Medical l J H Association as ns the to provoke wonder r that it has not come into common use the thc Neither chloroform ether nor any o of ot t common kinds kInd employed yet et tho the patient of or anesthetics is i I fully con con- Is afflicted b by no pain say Bays s Sorest who served cd In Italy's principal military hospital at Milan In more mora than formed operations performed per per- under the painless method metho hundreds of or which led lcd to explorations exploration s and incisions of ot the tho lungs no untoward unto unto- ward after atter effects resulted The following description was wag given en A A dry sterile scalpel la Is lipped dipped In pure phenol carbolic acid The Tha point of or lover the tho back of tho the scalpel Is la passed l L over tho the Intended lino of ot Incision a so eo 0 as to mark It with the phenoL A fe few rew w seconds later the fI scalpel Is dipped a again aln in tho the phenol and the tissues are ara ar o incised very ery slowly and gently th the tho o scalpel being moved mo up and down a as I In n cutting with a l saw When blood appears ap ap- pears a sponge la II used or blunt re retractors re- re tractors are applied if necessary th the e scalpel being dipped in pure puro phenol 1 as often as required By this method a film of or phenol is deposited on the blade This film comes in fn contact with th the tissues s as they are re cut thus anesthetizing them This film l ItS ItS' f rubbed off by the tho tissues or washed off by the blood through I which the blade pa passes aes and therefore has to be renewed hy by dipping tho the scalpel scat scat- pel in the tho acid Reid as often as necessary according tr to the depth of or the tissUes tissue to h be lee Indeed incised The method described I I. I expected to prove provo of 0 great reat value alue wh where rc tho the use of 0 local or general anesthetics l Is for foI any reason Inadvisable or impossible |