The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-23
Successfully to Three Patients
in a Chicago Hospital.
NO PAIN WAS FELT.
Subjects Testify, While Opera
lions We're Being Made.
One Smiled as His Toes Are
Clipped Off.

Chicago. Dec. 23.-Dr'Thomas JON
nesco of Bucharest. Roumania. has
demonstrated at the County hospital
the efficacy of a combination of sto-
yaine and strychnine as an anaes-
thetic. Before an audience compris-
ing noted surgeons, general practition-
ers and laymen he made clear that
his method of spinal analgesia was
practical
Doubling Thomases there were,
both from the taity and from the field
of medicine, but after DR.. Jonnesco
had shown that the anaesthetic could
be used in operations above the waist
line as well as below, skepticism faded
and a general verdict was returned to
the effect that all claims made by DR..
Jonnesco had been substantiated.
The anaesthetic was administered in
three surgical cases, one for an in
guinal hernia, second for amputa-
ton of toes and the third for the re-
Inoval of a wire from a broken arm.
In Hospital Amphitheater.
The operations for hernia and the
amputatfon of toes were performed in
the amphitheater of the hospital. The
third the removal of a wire from
broken arm, took place in the operat-
ing room on the fourth floor of the
hospital, following request from
physicians present that it be under
taken.
tients were below the waist line and it
was the desire of the doctors present
to obtain a demonstration of the eff
fectS of Stovaine and Strychnine as an
anaesthetic in an operation above that
point Stovaine has been used for
years in operations below the waist
and the real test of DR. Jonnescos
scovery-intended to not only make
the patient inSensible to pain but also
to protect him against the paralyzing
effects of stovaine-came when Archie
Mcmillan was operated upon by DR..
George F. Thompson for the removal
of the wire.
The latter declared the operation sue
cessfuI. and said that the anaesthetic
administered by DR.. Jonnesco was ef-
flcacious in every respect. Mcmillan,
when seen in the hospital a few hours
later, asserted that he was suffering
from no i'll effects.
Patient Pays a Tribute.
MY back feels hot, but that is the
result. 1 suppose. of the scrubbing and
preliminary dope the doctors put on
he said. II did not feel any pain while
the operation was being performed and
l guess that man Jonness;o knows what
he is doing"
Mcmillan chatted with the surgeons
while they wers at work. He suffered
a compound fracture of the humerus
and the bone. when set, was bound to-
gether with wire. The operation neces-
STATED the arm being cut open and the
wire removed.
The subject for toe amputation was
Arthur Hold. a shipbuilder. While in a
box car near Aberdeen, S. D., both of
his feet were severely frost bitten. He
came to Chicago and became a patient
at the Cook County hospital. All of his
toes were removed by DR. H. T. Lewis
He smiled frequently and chatted with
the attending physicians. At one in
terval he asked for cigar. In the case
of Hold and the other patients subject
ed to operations, the attending physi-
clans did not permit them to look upon
the parts which were under the knife.
Pain Entirely Absent
Did you feel any pain?' Hold was
asked
mot Bit he replied. "Of course
was sensitive to touch as the injection
was made by DR.. Jonnesco but L did
not feel any immediate results. I could
raise one of my legs for a minute or sc
ana then had no sensation in my low
er extremities"
When Hold was brought into tbs
operating room he seemed resigned and
expressed the hope that the operation
would be concluded with as little fuss
and pain as possible. DIR. Jonnesco
wearing sterilized garments, took from
Miss Mamie Montgomery a nurse .
small syringe which had been filled
from a bottle by George Soutze, secre-
tary to the distinguished physician, and
examined the patients back. He then
selected spot between the last dorsal
and first lumbar vertebrate and inserted
the end of the syringe. A small stream
of blood trickled from the wound and
as DR.. Jonnesco turned away Miss
Montgomery placed a piece of gauze
over it, Hold was then wheeled around
so that HE feet were in view of the
audience Of physicians and others.
As one Of his big toes was clipped of
he smiled and gave no evidence of the
slightest pain
Groans From Apprehension.
The patient in the inguinal hernia case
was James GaynOr. 1t was apparent thai
he was nervous when he was wheeled into
the room. When the cutting of the abdom