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Show ADVOCATE THE USE OF NITROUS OXIDE Atlantic City, N. J., June 4. Chloroform, Chl-oroform, ether and cocaine will soon pass out of general usage by the medical med-ical profession If the movement whlcn was started yesterday at the slxty-thlrd slxty-thlrd annual meeting of the America.) Medical association meets with the favor that was apparent as soon as the report of the committee on anaes-thesla anaes-thesla was filed. TVilc nnTrnnllltn TtfnQ rnmnnSArt of such eminent surgeons at Dr Yandell Henderson of Connecticut Dr. Thomas S. Cullen of Baltimore. Dr T W Huntington of San Francisco, Dr E Dencgre Martin of New Orleans and Dr. Fred T. Murphy of St Louis. These men are all prominent in the affairs ot the association and tho have the courage of their convictions in that anything which they say will of necessity have great weight with the profession. In their report the use of chloroform Is characterized as absolutely uu justifiable justi-fiable and they cite numerous incidents inci-dents where the patients have died the second day or so after an operation opera-tion and where the doctors have said that the operation was a success, but that the patient died of other cause.i They also point out the fact that other should never be used without oxygen and that there Is not occasion occa-sion for such a sleep producer now that newer methods have been discovered. dis-covered. Cocaine, worst of all anaesthetics, anaes-thetics, has mado a race of fiends that are constantly looking to the man who first gave them their taste as tho one who is 'responsible for their downfall. ine men wno nave oeen i;une,cu with the Investigation of this Important Import-ant subject advocate the use of nitrous oxide or as the drug trado calls it nitrous oxide oxygen. The advantages of this element are many. They say there are no bad affects, that it is nonpoisonous, that by the use of oxygen oxy-gen the impure carbon dioxide whkh Is breathed out of the lungs In health Is replaced, that this progress Is perfectly per-fectly natural and that It gives tho nitrogen a chance to produce a natural nat-ural anaesthesia which simulates sleep. oo Buck Weaver was laid up with an attack of illness yesterday, but hopes to be able 'to join tho team today. |