Show Lancing Abscesses Without Pain The pain caused by opening small abscesses ab-scesses is almost always intense for a few moments at least and many people naturally nat-urally shrink from the surgeons knife and prefer to bear with the troublesome visitations visita-tions until they open themselves It cannot can-not be generally known that by the use of a spray it is possible to so deaden sensibility sensibil-ity over limited areas that such operations as lancing boils enlarged glands felons and the like can be done almost if not quite painlessly A spray which is most effective is composed of ten parts of chloroform chloro-form fifteen parts of sulphuric ether and I one part of menthol This produces local anaesthesia in about one minute and the same lasts for four or five minutesFall River Herald |