Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-05-12
The Use Of Chloroform.


use Of ap@stheticss we. know
IS Taught Observation-Disclosures
standing the great amount of expert
enee gained in the course of the last
twenty years. In a paper addressed
TO the Academy of Science by Drs
Onimus aud Ch. Legros, the POSSIBLE
lty OF preventing chloroform from
causing death is discussed, and con-
tiuuous currents of electricity are re,
commended. Hitherto the only
method OF revivication that has
yielded satisfactory results in some
eases is artificial respiration. but all
other means proposed such as flageI>
latlon, aspersions with cold water, or
the tickling Of the larynx, have fail,
ed, because they exercise no action
on the muscular fbres OF the heart,
which are in a state Of paralysis
Again, faradisation, or the applica-
ton OF electricity by intermittent
currents, Is not to be prescribed, be-
canse that operation has generally
the effect of retarding respiration,
and the pulsation of the heart. III.
M. Onlmns ane Legros have had re,
sourcs to continuous currents in the
cases alluded TO ofsideration by chlo>
roform, with, il would SEEM great
success, by using from ii to 80 of
Remarks clements, the animals subs
Jected to xperimentb being dogs, rsb
bits, rats, frogs, capyb aras, and tr-
tons. The ntodns Operdiadi was as fol
lows: The animal, rat for instance
was placed under the glass receiver
together with ii sponge strongly i'm,
pregnated with the anmsthetic; in
the course OF a minute it would fall
asleep; by degrees its breathing would
gradually abato aud finally stop
Another-ha minute being allowed,
it was taken out, and the negative
pole OF the pile put in its mouth, the
positive one communicating with the
rectam. After the lapse OF few
seconds the heart, which had ceased
beating would show signs Of return,
ing animation, respiration would
thea srecommence and the animal
gradually return 10 life, the electrisa.
ton being suspended as soon as re-
gular. In some cases The subject Of
experiment was left for two Minutes
in a state ofapparent death, aud yet
revived By means of the continuous
current.-- Gdlagnani.
asA- The negroes down South
must be a very incorrigible set.--
They absolutely siacH not vote the
Copperhead ticket. The Augusta
Chronicle is in despair. 1t says /;
+" We have tried argument, audit has
failed. We have appealed to their
local attachments-reealled the init
mate and dependent relations of the
two races one upon the other, for
prosperity and success---have points
ed them to the teachings Of history,
and.shown the..utter ruin OF their own
own race those countries where they
have attempted to control in affairs
of State. Yet our appeals have been
in vain, our warnings disregarded."
The tactics are now TO be changed
| Says the same journal, "we must
prove to him that, while he mag exer-
else the ballot against our interest,
we ran and eoiH control the bread
against him. 1t must come to this
before they can be made to appreciate
! properly the vast power which we
still have over them. The road to a
negroes intelligence lies through his
belly. Pinch the latter, and you en-
large his understanding /; brighten his
intellect, and quicken his perceptive
powers. Send him supperless to bed,
and you open his mind tor the recep.
ton of TRUTH This plan will fail as
disastrously as the one it snpplants.
1t was tried on Union soldiers at An
Jacksonville, and has returned to
plague the inventors.