The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-12-11
jONNESCO'S new
SURGERY PLANS
StOvaine ExpIolter's Aim Is TO
Lessen Human Suffering,
PATIENT REMAINS CONSCIOUS

Bucharest Surgeon, Who viii Demon
strate In the United States Use OF
His Remarkable Ansesthetie, Tells OF
Sailor 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 mixture OF neutral sulphate OF
strychnine and stovaine injected into
a patient about TO be operated on will
produce perfect analgesia, or insensl-
bility to pain, without any OF the bad
effects of the anaesthetics generally
used in surgical operations, says be
has nothing to sell. His only aim Is
that OF a 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
ia 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 stoyaine can be used
to produce analgesla successfully only
on lower parts of the body where OPP
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 stovaine 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 J0nneSco, a patient can undergo
the most difficult 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.
1t is said by those who have wit
messed his operations abroad that
patient to whom the stovaine and
strychnine have been administered can
and does chat with the surgeon while
the knife is being used in an extreme
ly delicate operation. In the case OF
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 |
his shoulders We're lowered so that the !
numbing fluid could past upward. The |
operation to be performed on the sailor
was the removal OF tubercular glands |
from his neck. Two minutes after the !
fluid had a chance to spread the op-
GRAFTON was begun.
No Pain From Knife Thrust.
When the knife was applied the
sailor was asked If he felt any pain.
NO." replied the man. Even then
the surgeons knife was deep in his
neck
Are you quite comfortable?r asked
one of the surgeons.
Yes, quite, thank you," replied the
patient.
Professor Jonnesco told of this oper
alton through an interpreter. One or
his fellow countrymen, George Soutzo,
acted as the interpreter, for Professor
Jonnesco speaks no English.
This sailcr. who was about twenty
two years old, talked all the way |
through the operation" said Professor
Jonnesco. Moreover, he walked away |
from his operating table after it was
all over Another operation which was
successfully performed was on an
Irishman forty-seyen years old, who |
had cancer of the stomach. He was
not so active as the sailor after the |
operation, but both were successful.
The complete quietude Of both during
the operation was proof that they ex-
perienced no pain"
Professor Jonnesco said that his vls-
it to the United States YVES only 70
give Americans the benefit OF his dis
covery free Of charge.
To Lessen Pain His Only Reward.
"Some 750 patients have undergone
operations by the new method since
its discovery in 1908.' said the pro
fessor. "My reward for the discovery
is only this-to lessen pain and suffer.
ing In the human family. Il IL quite
enough reward. Once my method Is
adopted here In America 1t will be
adopted by the whole world, for this
is the country In which great achieve
ments in the surgical and medical
world are sent broadcast and are given
heed to by surgeons throughout the
world
T,rnfaauor Ionneaco Is on three |