Show HEALING ART OF OLD CHINESE abundant proof that they were fia ftc millar with anesthesia many thousands of years ago the artificial induction of painlessness by narcotic dra draughts tights was traditionally tio nally known in ancient dr charles ballance 1 in n tle the london lancet the chinese were acquainted with general anesthesia thousands of years ago it la Is related ot of the surgeon heathe in the third century A D that he be performed amputation and other major operations by its aid doctor browne relates two cases of anesthesia taken from a Per persian manuscript the first story concerns conc eraa aristotle and an all indian surgeon named barnab jan an earwig had entered the patients ear and attached itself to the brain aristotle gave the patient the drug so that he be became unconscious while barnab the skull this was excellent treatment it IR I 1 now well i known aown that living foreign bodies may produce and meningitis in the second case the operation was Cae caesarian section I 1 1 |