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Show HEALING ART OF OLD CHINESE ' Abundant Proof That They Were Fa- jH miliar With Anesthesia Many H Thousands of Years Ago. ! The artificial Induction of painless "'1 ness by narcotic draughts was) tradl- ,H tlonally known In undent times', writes 'H Dr. Charles llnllanco In the Londot- iH Lancet. H Tlio Chinese were acquainted witfe Yq general anesthesia thousands of ,H years ago. It Is related of the Surgeon H Hoathe In the Third century A. D, that H he performed amputation, trephining: H and other major operations by Its aid. H Doctor Browne relates two cases of H anesthesia taken from n Persian H manuscript. , The first story! concerns H Aristotle and an Indian surgeon named H Sarnnb. (An earwig hnd entered the. H patient's car and attached itself to ?H the brain. Arlstotlo gave the patient H the drug so that ho becamu uncon- H scions while Sarnnb trephined the- H sluill. This wns excellent treatment. H It Is now well known' Hint living for- H olgn bodies may produce otitis ' nnd H meningitis. In the second cane the op- H oration was Caesarian section. .i H |