The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-12-11
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Baltimore Surgeons In Delirium of De-
light.
From, the Baltinerc american.
Cocaine, the wonderful ), anesthetic,
which willhecomeshe innocent substitute
for dangerous chlofoform, is putting sur.
geons into deliriums of delight. They
have found in this newly discovered sub.
stance the long looked for drug which IS
so bland in its nature that when put in
the eye it, does NOT redden it even as
much as q drop of pure water, and yet
in few minutes will gently and surely
take away all sensation from the eye.ball,
so that it can be pulled and cut without
causing any sensation of pain whatever.
This condition of insensibility does not
last much more than an hour, when the
eye Tegains its natural feeling, without
having suffered any detriment. Under the
temporary paralysis induced BY this limo.
cent drug any operation or theseye can
be successfully and painlessly performed,
and is sunattended with any risk whatever.
To eye surgeons and eye patients the
millennium seems oshave truly come.
Through an invitatiin of Prof. j. j.
Chisolm, large number of the leading
physiciansof baltimore were invited to
the Prestytet;an Eye, Ear and Throat
Charity Hospital on Friday to witness
the wonderful anesthetic effects of.
cocaine upon number of patients who
had recently been admitted into the hos.
pital 10, have sightsrestored by surgical
treatmantS Among these patients were
FIVE cases of cataract in elderly persons,
some of whom were very anxious to.
escape the pain of this severe operation,
and vet were afraid to take ,chloroforp.
The first case thought into the operating
room was stout man, who for several
months past had Lost all sight in his
right eye: TITO this eye an attendant
had put drop of 2 p. c. solution of
cocaine, and had under instructions re-.
peated the application every three min: Z
ntes for onS quarter efan hour Il had
enlarged his pupil, making the white
cataract very conspicuous, but had ap-
parently produced no other effect in the
appearance of the eyeball. As attest
that the cocaine had done its work. the!
lids were stretched apart and ths,opera.
tor rubbed his finger all over the front of
the eyeball without the patient feeling
any discomfort. Byacontrast,he touched
the other eye, into which nodrop had
been pat, when the man exhibited very
decided uneasiness. This experiment
showed that the eye which had no drops
in it had all of its natural feeling; the.
other, under the local action of the
cocaine, had for the time ostall sensation.
To the surprise of the doctors looking on
the operator seized the cataracteye with
foreceps and pushed a long; slender
knife Northumberland acrosssthe eye.
ball, cutting long and oeep cash into it
without causing the slightest change of
expression in the face of the patient. A
sharp instrument was then put into the
wound, and the cataract dislodged from
its position inithe centre of the eyeball,
behind the pupil. Gentle pressure was
made upon the eye, and the cataract was
squeezed through the open cut in the eye
ball, coming ont entire. While all this
YVES going on, the patient-who was in
his perfect senses, aud was answering
questions did not exhibit any more un..
easiness than if his clothes we're being
T cut instead of his eye. He expressed
himself as not feeling any pain whatever.
He cbuld see as soon as the cataract was
removed from his eye. -sgS
The secoEd patient brought into the
operating room was an old, feeble lady,
for q long time blind in both eyes. The
cocaine drops had been put into her eyes
at three lminutes' interval for twenty
minutes. When this eye was rudely
punched, and she did not experience
pair, she felt. assured that the operation
would not hurt her. Her blindness
being the same as the previous patients,
the samesteps ofsthe operation nswere fol.
lowed, her eye cut open, and the cataract
removed Though broad and gaping
wound. When asked, while the opera.
ton was going on, If she felt the cutting,
she said she rather heard 1T. The CUT
ting ofthe gristly part of the eye sounded
to her, as she expressed it, like the cut
ting ofsstif muslin, and, as she said,
about as painful. Patient after patient
was operated upon, painlessly after this
manner under the local action of this
wonderful drug, until seven operations
were completed. The universal express.
ion of the medical gentlemen who wit
messed these experiments was one of
wonder and astonishment that so simple
and bland 9 drop could exercise such
powerful controlling influence over pain.
Some referred to its controlling influence
as miraculous, and all conceded they
had seen the operation of the most won.
derful discovery in medicine of the pine:
lteenth century. There can be no reason
why the pain controlling effects Of cocaine
on the eye should not be equally shown
on every other part of the human body,
and its efficacy as common pain ubdu.
ing agent will be at once tested. If it
will permit teeth to be drawn as pain.
lessly as it allows the eye to be cut, then,
truly the whole human race will join in
one universal expression of thanks to the
young physician in Vienna who acci.
IDENTITY discovered theSwonderful remedy.
Cocaine isan extract from coca leaves,
used as common beverage or tea by
millions of people in South America,
where the shrub grows indigenously, and
is also cultivated for its tea leaves. Its
effect when used as 9 beverage are iden-
tical with coffee and tea.
Small vs.. Big Cows.
The following argument for the "little
butter cow" in, the Western Rural will
apply to any small COW if she is good
one, Just in proportion to her yield The.
principal object seems to be to breed a
COW tbateis the best for milk, butter and
beef combined, which is as hard job as
it is to breed horse for the dray, farm
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