New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-12-08
ST0VAINE TRIED
DOCTORS PLEASED.
Dr. Jonnesoo Praised litter
-Four Operations Here.

majority OF the fifty or more surgeons
no saw DR.. Thomas JOnnesco. the Ru-
fnsnisn operator. demonstrate his use OF
stovaine and strychnine as an anRsthetic
yesterday were delighted with the result.
obtained. The operators. DIR. Virgil p.
Gibnev. Or. Homer Gihney and DR. william
". Coley. were enthusia site over the dem
onstration- Later Or. Homer GiSney said
he believed that stOvaine would be used I'm
lieu Of chloroform or ether.
-Four subjects were put On the table yes
terdsy IN the hospital of the New York
Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and
Crippled. No lS5 East s2d street-three chill
onen and one woman. A combination OF
stovaine and strychnine. about four parts
20 one. was injected into the spinal column
al each. and although in every case the
patient knew what Was going on and vas
able 20 converse with the surgeons no pain
was felt.
one bcy on whom Dr. Virgil Gibney cp-
GRATED for paralysis OF the right leg
not i've wears old. but when the operation
was over and the hsndage was removed
from his eyes he ssid 20 Or. Gihney: Il feel
Sne now"
Dr. Homer Gibney operated On Q thirteen
sesr-old boy for club foot. In this case
nearly double the first dose Of stovaine and
strychnine was used. the amount being in
creased with the age Of the patient.
woman who was operated on for fracture
of The hip received the maximum dose-ten
nnilligrsmmes Of stcvaine and one Of strych-
nine.
During the cav an abdominal operation
was performed with the new anssthetc.
This consumed about fifteen minutes and
seemed entirely successful.
,raN-n
There arc two parts Of the body in which
she injection is made. For operations on
rhe trunk the injection is made between
rhc cervicai and dorsal vertehrs. and for
operations below the waist between the
rwelf'h dorssl and FIRST lumbar vertebrse.
The injection is always made I'm the spinsl
column.
Among tho surgeons present was Or
NNilliam J. Mayo. Of Rochester, Mimi.
ho came East especially TO see the dem
"nstration. SO much impressed was he
shat ~ invited DR.. Jonnesco 20 visit the
af.st and give other demonstrations Or.
George Brewer and Dr. Woods Hutchinson
were also present
pr. JORnesoo viii use his treatment m
spfraiions az the POSTGRADUATE Hospital
to-dsy. The clinic wiz he held at .. m.
Tomorrow he viii operate at The Mount
inHitauon OF Dr. Homer Gibney. give a
demonstration an the new operating room
a. :he West side German Dispeusary.
Tho Rumsnian surgeon said he Is much
pleased with the surgeons ne has met since
Dc arrived in this country. He alluded in
fne highest terms 20 Dr. Adolf Lorenz.
~hcse work ia America is nov well known
ono whose methods are in daily use One
surgeon yesterday. while watching DR..
Virgil Gitney a. work. said That's a
oorenz operation, with Gibney modifica-
ton"
The hospital az which the operations were
performed and the demonstration conduct
% has an average attendance OF about
two hundred patients. Last year il treated
i2.s2s new cases and had d total of s7.6ls
patients. The expenditures were $4,000 and
she receipts 2,000 the deficit being made
lp from the endowment fund.
one feature IN connection with the in
ttitution is the hospital school, IN which
Hbout one hundred and twenty-five patients
are in daily attendance, usually enabling
fhem when well 10 re-enter the grades
rhey left IN the public schools All tie
operators yesterday are on the STAFF OF the
hospital. DR.. Virgil p. GiEney being the
surgeon in chief The officers are Fred
erick Sturgis. president: John s Melcher.
treasurer; William Church Osborn, secre-
taTy. and S. sidney Smith, chairman of
she executive committee
INTEREST IN LOCAL CASE.
Because OF DR.. Jonnescos work much
interest LAS been manifested in a recent
case AZ the Hsr Moriah Hospital. 70. $50
"a street. in which spinal ansesthesia
was used, novocaine being the anaPsthetic
The patient. a seVenty-eiE ht- yesr-old wom-
On. on whom Dr. Benjamin Jablons and
1T. Leo Berger performed an abdominal
operation. WAS doing well yesterday. She's
sitting up IN bed. eating oranges" said
ruTea.
Sp.nal anasthesia is not absolutely new
~ New York said Dr. Homer Gibney
last night. ''Novocaine has been used ia
rare cases, usually IN emergency and with
eyed psuents. The great interest in Dr.
Jorn~sco's demonstration is because Of TIE
pcW drug used ] noted slight traces OF
nausea. but they amounted 70 little
One ~ the claims OF Or. Jonnesco is that
nausea Is almost Mill when stovaine and
strychaiAe are used So universal is the
use q the combination in his country that
seven hundred and fftv oraratione have