The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1885-02-26
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Marvellous Propsrstes 81 tho ws;w,ty n,a. d;
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Cleveland y der: Have you u , ever
seer. an operation performa ID OH the eve
by the aid Of the wonderful ansesthetio
cocoaine r. asked q stud nt 81 Western
Reserve medical university Of report, i
er the other day. 81 ii, &
8 ., was the rep1y z.s
hen come with me. 1t is Il to be {
given mother experiment. at the college
to-day. The stud ent led the way and
conducted his com anlii ion Oh to tile little &
room where the patient and i group Of
doctors were gathere The former
was suffering intensely The eyes wera +
extended Is far beyond I'll eli natural
size by the swelling Of The iris. The
$eyeballs were pressed against the lid
and the least touch caused the most in.
tense agony. The disease is known as
glaucoma, and former operations to re.
ieve it had occasioned the patient Sc
we're suffering The interest manifested
by the gentlemen present was profound.
Several were practical ocillists, and all
were liable to meet single Shanded o like
case in their own practice. The pa
tlent, o fine-l ooking gent eman Of about
IS years, was assured that the opera. /?
ton would be absol utel painless, but
the suffering he had endured for the
past month or two had weak ned his
nerves, and it was sometime before he
could summon snf6c ient courage to per-
NIT the operation to go on. Finally he
dropped on his back on the couch, shut
his teeth tightly u ID
on, gentlemen 4. 4 lhe physician, who
was to perform; the operation drew
from his case d miiniature vial tightly
sealed and labelled n /. III droc hlorate Of
Cocoaine. = The seal was broken, and
the patient directed 70 open his eyes aa
widely as possibl The doctor also
drew his watch, and laid it upon his
4 knee. -Four drops of the anaesthetic;
were then let fall ITO the right eye.
The III little second hand moved
Ave points and E four drops. more
were let fill 1 Five seconds moro were
waited for, and the same amount was
again dropped into the eye IN ten SEQ
sonds more the doctor touched the eye
lightly with his hand erchicf. Doyon
feel any pain 2, he asked the patient.
Not the ightest,, 81 answered the. lat.
4 ter. The eye was then pressed against,
Asthe lid wasScr0wded ag ainse 1t, and the
patient was directed to touch it with
his finger. was as Gallons aB stone:
Il The eye was then slit with q little knife,
and the iris was split in tw IA pair Of
delicate forceps were then inserted and.
i is piece of the iris ex tracted. The opera-
4 ton may have lasted two min tes, and
during that time the eye did not even
i twitch, and the patient assured those
about HIM that he felt nothing whatever.
AS has been said before, the operation
lis not q new one, hut ii has hitherto
Izbeen performed und er very adverse CIR.
;cumstancess owing to the inability q
4 the usual chlorof orm,i5 81 ether To keen;
the patient ensible for 9 sufficient
\ length of time. The operation Witness;
ed by the reporter was, the second in.
which the anmsthe tie has ever been!
used outside Of New = or ss;;s
Cocoaine wns prot uced from the Leaf!
by Neimans q German chemist, in $50,
\ but it was left Tor 1Drr. Carl Kroller, Of
4 the Vienna general hospital In 1884, to
4 find that this new al loid rendered
that extremely sensitive organ, the eye,
40 completely insensibl lei that its surface
might be gouged, scratched and cut
without exciting any sense Of pain Of
even cAusins mohob j. Since tKens 1T has
|aeaped By bound into occasional favor
and an agent reyionsly regarded rather
i sas OF mere chemica1 interest has been.
demonstrated to be Of such value ii eye
] surgery as TO advance III price TO- the
Utmost fabulous sum of over 5000 per
ounce. tits valuable not alone as. an
stlletic, marvellous as ii such a boon
II to 2 sufferer. Wills destroying sensi-i
i bility y enables tie patient to obtain
i entire control sof that organ, SO that
4 ssoperatlons can be peri r,ned with great
aer certainty Of sue ess than is possible
4 with chioroform Or ether: f'.s855355iig