The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-12-07
jONNESCO'S new
SURGERY PLANS
StOVaine ExpIOitar's Aim Is to
Lessen Human Suffering.
PATIENT REMAINS CONSCIOUS

strate In the United States Use of
His Remarkable Anaesthetic, Tells of
Sailor Who Talked While Being
Operated On.
Professor Thomas Jonnesco. head of
| the University of Bucharest Medica.
school, in Roqmania, 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 a perfect analgesia. or insensi-
bility 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 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 eff
feet.
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the discovery of stovaine. for it was
in use long before he. as head of the
mediea 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 analgesia 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 Jonnesca. patient can undergo
the most difficult operation and remain
perfectly conscious throughout for the
strychuine and stoyaine does not de
i prive the pa lent of consciousness. 1t
simply dcadens the pain.
1t is said by those who have wit
messed his operations abroad that a
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
| ~ delicate operation. In the case of
sailor who was operated on abroad
DIR. Jonneseo inserted hypodermic
needle into the spinal canal between
two of the vertebrate at the base Of
the neck. He injected three -centi-
grams of the mixture dissolved in wa
ter A few minutes later the patient
was placed on an operating table, and
his shoulders were lowered SO that the
numbing fluid could past upward The
operation to be performed ON the sailor
/ was the removal of tubercufar 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 il he felt any pain.
NO.. replied the man. Even then
the surgeons knife was deep in his
neck.
Are you quite comfortableY asked
one of the surgeons.
Yes. quite, thank you, replied the
patient.
Professor .Ionnesco told of this oper-
alton through an interpreter. One of
| his fellow countrymen, George Soutzo,
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
/ Jonnesco. Moreover, he walked away
from his operating table after it was
/ allover. Another operation which was
| successfully performed was on an
Irishman forty-seven years old. who
| had cancer of the stomach. He was
not so active as the sailor after the
i operation. but both were successful.
The complete quietude of both during
the operation WAS proof that they ex-
perienced no pain"
j Professor Jonnesco said that his Wis
| 1t to the United States was only to
i give Americans the benefit of his dis
covery free of charge.
To Lessen Pain His Only Reward.
aaSome $50 patients have undergone
operations by tie new method since
4 its discovery in 1905" said the pro-
fessor. "My reward for the discovery
i is only this--to lessen pain and suffer
ing in the human family. 1t is quite
enough reward Once my method is
4 sa1w4nr5 l,aY.. II, t,1,a,sioa ri will 10
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
| Professor Jonnesco is on three
months vacation and has many en-
gagements throughout the United
States.