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Show TO USE COCAINE m ANAESTHETIC Ehccrcry That Drn Is Better Bet-ter Than Ether or Chlo-' Chlo-' rcf era Daring ; Operations; Opera-tions; Doctors Interested. . ' V ", ' v ' Bait Lake physicians are much Inter-ted Inter-ted In the story that comes from New York that John D. Rockefeller's $S,0K.-00 $S,0K.-00 Institute for medical research has , made a dlacorery relatlna to cocaine which Is expected to revolutionise the use of anaesthetics In surgery. As an anaesthetic for serious operations ether Is less dangerous than chloroform, but U stimulates the. heart, and after Its Influence has subsided, the patient becomes be-comes deathly .sick. Chloroform does not produce nausea, but It depresses the heart, and even a slight overdose Is likely to cause death during the period of 11 n con irlnmnAn Cocaine has heretofore been regarded as available only for minor operations, and local applications, such as toothache and external cuts or wounds. Ddctors L, Kast and Meltser of toe Rockefeller institute, insti-tute, afte ra series of elaborate Investigation Investi-gation have found out, however, that cocaine. co-caine. Instead of being a mild drug, in reality exerts In certain doses a profound and far-reaching Influence over the Internal Inter-nal organs, which will render it available for serious operations. This is a boon to surgeons as well ss patients,, because cocaine is not at all . dangerous to use, and has no bad effects. Notwithstanding the long prevailing be-,7 be-,7 - o the contrary among the medical .union, a man's liver and kidneys are usceptibls to pain as his Anger or tot. For generations doctors have been regarding re-garding the 'abdominal organs as dead to all sensations, doing their work mechanically mechani-cally and unsupplied with sensory nerves. It was in exploding this theory of "dead" organs that the scientific experts of the Rockefeller Institute stumbled on the vastly Important discovery as to cocaine. |