Show 1 II I TIlE THE NE I W ANESTHETIC i iI Ii I I The Tho press picas s has reported ted the recent ex cx experiments i pe with under the dl rc re of or Dr the i I Burgeon eugeon and tho the impression has teen beer i created that this Is a new discovery als oe I I But Dul we ve learn leam froin rom number or ot otI o f the Philadelphia II Inquirer er that Dr W I Wayne Babcock ek at the Sa Samaritan Samaritan I maritan Ho Hospital lias f been n practicing r spinal In his Op operation In a manner almost exactly similar to that Hint t employed by b the doctor do to Wo We 0 may ma add udd that Dr DI Babcock Is a u s n nor of or Mr Babcock at present of or this City CIl and a brother of or Miss s Maude May lla Bab nab Babcock J cock of or the University of Utah Dr Babcock the he article in the Phila I delphia Inquirer states s has officiated 1 at more than a n thousand operations OP in which he lie has used Injections for tor the purpose of or causing the tho to lose lo his sense sos Ien of or feeling In thu part of the hue body being operated upon while ho retains all the other powers of tile his L mind In almost every case Dr Bab Babcock I cock c has bas ha talked talk d to the patient nt who was 7 being g operated OP rated upon and has found that they the always are arc are invariably In their nor nI normal mal inal minds and not affected mentally by t either cither tho the operation o or 01 the anesthetic Occasionally after aCter the effect of or the anesthetic has h s worn off orr the patient has hus been bc n afflicted with nausea but by eon con constant cInstant stant experimenting In doses and cool com compounds pounds this has hns lately latel been overcome We 0 the tho following account lecount Half Hair a n dozen of these were performed In tile the Samaritan los lloa yesterday es AH All ll the patients who were operated upon were wen treated to an all 11 Injection of compounded con with Thu Tho injection was wal made In inthe tho the spine below tho tte fourth lumbar r I vertebra As is roon on as tie the le drug ding had n tel ed the tho system of the tim patient he lit be le became came temporarily paralysed l n om Eons the thus waist down A uwel t was thrown oVen oV his lila taco face In hi that he lIe might not ceo tco the blood Then tho the operation began At tin fh very er Instant that hat the sharp knife Italic was being thru thrust t Into the patients lesh he lie was allowed to talk The rile patient said he h felt tine fine In a calm voice 01 co and throughout the tho operation exhibited an utter titter unconsciousness i of or pain il 11 though ho could hear and speak It seems that Dr Babcock has pur pursued sued his big experiments for fol r l more than ten years ears and that his ovel t havo been known to the medical 1 through the the medical journals although they thusy thi have havo not attracted the Z he attention of or the press correspondents The account A count states state however I 0 e I that It has been discovered that thit It is impale Impractical Impractical to lo use u the tho th Injection above the th fourth lumbar vertebra When hen the any an point die tha he spine spino below this It Induces pal I of oC nM nil points below It while the patient still has feeling above aboc oe It Is feared chat amI if IC the sto l ne were ere Injected further up Ill the spine its action u n tho tile heart I would bo be o dangerous I |