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Show IS A NEW ANESTHETIC . Something with a Nam That Should I Render It Dtadly to Asythlnj ! on Earth. "Chlorobydrate of Dlmelhylamlno-bcntolypentanol." Dlmelhylamlno-bcntolypentanol." Such, says the London Mall, Is the awe-inspiring title of the latest anesthetic. In order not I to unduly alarm his patients, Dr. Four-neau. Four-neau. Its French discoverer, has re-namtd re-namtd It "Suvalne." It It tnci Into the spinal fluid, and wlti. to minutes produces complete com-plete ariMUeela In the body below the point of Injection. The patient, however, how-ever, does n6t lose consciousness. Its effects last for an hour and a half, and no unpleasant results have yet been observed, though It has been tried for some time In more than one Paris hospital. English doctors are reluctant to experiment ex-periment with it. "Once you have injected in-jected your 'Stnvalne' into the splno.'' said a prominent F. H. C. 8 recently, "you have no more cobtrol over It, but with gaseous anesthetics It is possible pos-sible to stop the administration before the danger point Is -reached. As the quantity needed of any anesthetic rarles with the individual patient, the Importance of this control may be easily realized. "In addjtlon, there Is always danger dan-ger of septlo poisoning In hypodermic Injections, and in this form of Injection Injec-tion Into the spinal fluid the consequences conse-quences would be most disastrous." |