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Show NEW ANAESTHETIC !i IS USED IN OGDEN !! Boy Has an Operation Performed on His Neck Without Feeling the ' ' Cut of the Surgeon's Knife Remarkable Effect of Quinine -' in Combination With Uric Acid. ; j ' 'j : t The new local ahaesthetlc, quinine and "urea hydrochlorine, Is believed to have been used for the first time in this city In an operation performed In the office of Dr R E. Worrell upon John Fltzsjmmons yesterday. Under the influence of the new drug a successful suc-cessful operation was perfoi'ned for congenital wry-neck. Tho anaesthetic, which is bellevod will revolutionize several forms of surgery, sur-gery, Is a recent discovery made by physicians In the southern states. It was brought to its present perfected state, after several months of experimentation experi-mentation In one of the largest hospitals hos-pitals and laboratories In the country. The discovery of ih". southorn physicians physi-cians wns that whore quinine was Injected In-jected hypodermically into an arm or leg, the limb, In certain Instances, became be-came paralyzed and absolutely without with-out feeling. It was next discovered that this condition took place In persons per-sons whose blood carried with it an abnormal amount of uric acid. Tho paralysis lasted for several hours, sometimes for days. It was In following to the causo these conditions that the new drug was finally perfected The quinine solution Is said to be far more powerful power-ful than cocalr and at the samo time 13 without the dangerous rdactlon sometimes producod by this older drug. The use of stovalne as a local anaesthetic, heralded a year ago as a great triumph of surgery, had fallen somewhat into ill repute because of 1 the 'toxic effects of this coal tar der- 1 j I Ivatfve. The manufacturers of the. 5 quinine anaesthesia claim that it sr absolutely free from toxic effects and y that a patient subjected to the drug ; suffers from no ill effects whatover. ' ff Young Fitzsimmons, on whom tho f j operation was performed, is the son ! :, of Mrs. E Fitzsimmons of Jackson , j fj avenue Throughout the work of tho ' f 1 surgeons he Remained conscious but, ; K because of tue incision being made 'J In tjie back of the neck ,was unaware that the skin and muscles had been cut until he was told of the fact after . i the operation had been completed, j When fold that it was all over, he . laughed because, he said, "The doc- $4 tcrs have fooled me." ; t Tho boy's neck, which was badly ; crooked from birth, is now straight ! 1 and-It is believed that his complete , i 'jj recovery from tho deformity is only a matter of a few weeks. j 1 . , lA |