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Show HEALING ART OF OLD CHINESE Abundant Proof That They Were Familiar Fa-miliar With Anesthesia Many Thousands of Years Ago. The artificial induction of painlessness painless-ness by narcotic draughts was traditionally tradi-tionally known in ancient times, writes Dr. Charles Ballance in the London Lancet. Tue Chinese were acquainted with general anesthesia thousands of years ago. It is related of the Surgeon Hoathe in the Third century A. D. that he performed amputation, trephining and other major operations by its niil. Doctor Browne relates two cases of anesthesia taken from a Persian manuscript. The first story concerns Aristotle and an Indian surgeon named Sarnab. lAn earwig had entered the patient's ear and attached itself to the brain. Aristotle gave the patient the drug so that he became unconscious uncon-scious while Samub trephined the skull. This was excellent treatment. It is now well known that living foreign for-eign bodies may produce otitis and meningitis. In the second case the operation op-eration was Caesarian section. |