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Show PRODUCES" A SLEEP But Does Not Affect the Heart or Other Vital Organs Chicago, Jan. 19. A Philadelphia special to the Record-Herald says: Years of investigation by noted surgeon sur-geon for a perfect anaesthetic which would hav no detrimental effects on the heart or other vital organs of the patient have apparently been reward-oil. reward-oil. Electricity has come to the relief re-lief of the. surgeon, and investigation going on here and abroad, the results re-sults of which have Just been made public, show that electricity is far superior to any of the drugs now used. It produces a state of Insensibility, called "electric sleep." by acting on the nerve centers of the brain. The sleep Is not fatal, and when the electric elec-tric current Is opened the influence in immediately lost and the patient becomes conscious without feeling rny of the after-effects common with j drug anaesthetics. |