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Show HEALING ART CF OLD CHINESE Abundant Proof That They Were Familiar Fa-miliar With Anesthesia Many Thousands of Years Ago. The artificial induction of painlessness painless-ness by narcotic draughts was traditionally tradi-tionally known in ancient times, writes Dr. Charles Ballance in the London Lancet. The Chinese were acquainted with general anesthesia thousands of years ago. It is related of the Surgeon lloathe in the Third century A. D. that he performed nnipuliition, trephining and other major operations by Its aid. , Doctor Iirowne relates two cases of ; , anesthesia taken from u Persian manuscript. The first story concerns Aristotle and an Indian surgeon named Sarnah. lAn earwig bad entered the patient's ear and attached itself to the brain. Aristotle gave the patient the drug so that he became uncon- 1 scions while Sarnah trephined the skull. This was excellent treatment. It is now well known that living foreign for-eign bodies may produce otitis anil meningitis. In the second case the op-oration op-oration was Caesarian section. |