Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-12-18
JONNESCO'S new
SURGERY PLANS
StOvaInS EXPLORERS Aim Is to
Lessen Human Suffering
PATIENT REMAINS CONSCIOUS

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saIler Who Talked While Being
Operated On.
Professor Thomas JOnnesco, head Of
the University OF Bucharest Medical
school, IN Roumania. who recently ar
rived at New York to demonstrate to
eminent surgeons in the United States
how a mixture Of neutral sulphate Of
strychnine and stovaine injected into
patient about to be operated on will
produce perfect anaigesla. or insensi-
btity TO pain. without any OF the bad
effects Of the anaesthetics generally
used In surgical operations. says he
has nothing to sell. His only aim Is
that Of q humanitarian who wishes to
increase as far as possible the use Of
painless surgery throughout the world.
His new analgesia producing mixture
has been used by several eminent sur.
geons In Europe recently to good ef-
feet.
Professor JonnescO lays no claim to
the discovery OF stovaine, for it was
In use long before he. as head Of the
medical school Of the University OF
Bucharest. began to experiment with
the effects OF the analgesia. He says,
however, that stovaIne can be used
TO produce analgesla successfully only
on lower parts Of the body where op-
erations are TO be performed. Its use
alone In the upper parts Of the body
has been attended with dire results.
But by mixing the neutral sulphate
OF strychnine the stovalne can be used
for producing an utter lack OF feeling
In any part Of the body.
Patient Not Deprived Of consciousness.
Under his new method. says Profess
or JonnescO. patient can undergo
the most dlficult operation and remain
perfectly conscious throughout, for the
effect produced by the mixture Of
strychnine and stovaine does not de-
prive the patient Of consciousness. 1t
simply dCadens the pain.
II Is said by those who have wit
messed bis operations abroad that a
patient to whom the stovalne and
strychnine have been administered can
and does chat with the surgeon while
the knife is being used in an extreme
~ delicate operation. In the case Of
a sailor who was operated on abroad
DR. JOnnesco inserted a hypodermIc
needle into the spinal canal between
two Of the vertebrae at the base OF
the neck. He injected three cent?
grams Of the mixture dissolved In wa
ter. A few minutes later the patient
was placed on an operating table. and
bis shoulders were lowered 80 that the
numbing fuid could past upward. The
operation to be performed on the sailor
was the removal OF tubercular glands
from hls neck. Two minutes after the
huid had a chance TO spread the OPP
Grafton was begun.
Ne Pain From Knife Thrust.
When the knife was applied the
sailor was asked II he felt any pain.
NO" replied the man. Even then
the surgeons knife was deep in his
neck.
Are you quite comfOrtablef" asked
one OF the surgeons.
"Yes, quite, thank you." replied the
patient.
Professor Jonnesco told Of this oper-
alton through en- interpreter. One Of
his fellow cOuntrymen, George Soutno,
acted as the interpreter. for Professor
Jonnesco speaks no English.
This sailor, who was about twenty
two years old, talked all the way
through the operation" said Professor
JcnneacO. Moreover. he walked away
from his operating table after 1t was
all over. Another operation which was
successfully performed was on an
Irlshman forty-seven years old. who
had cancer Of the stomach. He was
not 90 active as the sailor after the
operation. but both were successful.
The complete Quletude Of both daring
the operation was proof that they ex-
perienced no pain"
Professor Jonnesco said that his Wis
It to the United States was only to
give Americans the benefit OF hla dis
covery free " charge.
Te Lssssn Pain htis Only Reward.
A9A1g ~ P4Ne4t4 nave uuuSFkOMe
operations hy the new method since
It's discovery In 1908,' said the pro-
tessor. "My reward for the discovery
Is only thls-to lessen pain aud suffer
ing in the human family. II Ii quite
enough reward. Once my method 10
adopted here In America II win be
adopted By the whole world. for this
e the country In which great achieve
ments In the surgical and medical
world are sent broadcast and are given
heed 10 by surgeons throughout the
world"
Professor Jonnesco b on 4 three
months vacation and has many en-
gagements throughout the United
States