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Show HEALING ART OF OLD CHINESE Abundant Proof That They Were Familiar Fa-miliar With Anesthesia Many Thousands of Yeara Age. The artificial Induction of painlessness painless-ness by narcotic draughts waa traditionally tradi-tionally known in ancient times, write Dr. Charles Ballunce In the Londoa Lancet. The Chinese were acquainted wits general anesthesia thousands of years ago. It Is related of the Surgeon Hoathe In the Third century A. D. that he performed amputation, trephlalng and other major operations by Its aid. Doctor Browne relates two cases of anesthesia taken from a Persian manuscript. The first story concern Aristotle and an Indian surgeon named Sarnab. An earwig had entered th patient's ear and attached Itself t the brain. Aristotle gave the putlent the drug so that he became unconscious uncon-scious while Sarnab trephined th skull. This wns excellent treatment. It Is now well k'nown that living foreign for-eign bodies may produce otitis and meningitis. In the second case the operation op-eration was Caesarian section. |
