Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-12-16
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SURGERY r..
StOValne ExplOiier'S Aim Is
Lessen Human Suffering
PATIENT REMAINS CONSCIOUS

strate In the United States Use of
His Remarkable Anaesthetic, TeIis of
Sailor Who Talked While Being
Operated On.
Professor Thomas Jonnesco, head of
the University of Bucharest Medical
school. In Ruumania, who recently ar
rived at New York to demonstrate to
eminent surgeons In the United States
how mixture OF neutral sulphaIe of
strychniue aud stuvaine injected into
a patient about 10 be operated on will
produce u perfect auaIgesia. or insensi-
bility to pain. without any of the bad
effects OF the anaesthetics generally
used in surgical operations. says he
has nothing to seli His only aim is
that OF II Humanitarian who wishes to
increase as far as possible the use of
painless surgery throughout the world.
His new aualgesia producing mixture
has been used by several eminent sur
geons IN Europe recently to good eff
feet
Professor JonuesCo lays 10 claim to
IN use long before he, a. head of the
medical school of the University of
Bucharest. began to experiment with
the effects of the uuagesia. He says.
however, that stovaine can he used
to produce anaIgeSla successfully only
on lower parts OF the body where op-
eratiOns are 10 be performed. Its use
alone in the upper parts of the body
has beeu attended with dire results.
But by mixing the neutral snlphate
of strychnine the stoyaine 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 Jonues,o. patient can undergo
the most difficult operation and remain
perfectly conscious throughout. for the
effect produced by the mixture of
Strychnne and stovaine does not de-
prive the patient OF consciousness. Ii
simply dcadens the pain.
1t is said by those who have wit
messed his operations abroad that n
patient to HON the stovaine and
and does chat with the surgeon while
the knife is being used in an extreme
ly delicate operation. In the case of
a sailor who was operated on abroad
Or. Jonuesco inserted Il 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 4 few minutes later the patient
was placed on an operating table, and
his shoulders we're lowered SO that the
numbing 1uid could past upward. The
operation to be performed on the sailor
was the removal OF tubercular glands
from his neck. Two minutes after the
fluld had a chance to spread the op-
GRAFTON was begun.
No Pain From Knife Thrust.
When the knife was applied the
s#ior was asked if he felt any pain.
No." replied the man. Even then
tie surgeons knife was deep In his
urck
Are yom quite comfortnble:" asked
orn Of the surgeons
r'l!rnt.
Professor Jounesco told of this oper-
.un through an Interpreter. One of
h,, fellow coHntrymen, George Soutzo.
a,Ird us the Interpreter. for Professor
Juuuesco speaks no Euglish.
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
all over. Another operation which WAS
successfully performed was on an
lrishman forty-seven years old. who
had cancer OF the stomach. He was
not SO active as the sailor after the
operation. hut both were successful.
The complete quictude OF both during
the operation was proof that they ex-
perienced no patu,"
Professor Jonnesco said that his Wis
It to the United States was ouly TO
give Americans the benefit OF his dis
covery free OF charge.
To Lessen Pain His Only Reward.
Some 100 patients have undergone
operations by the new method since
its discovery iu .90S." said the pro.
fcssor. My reward FOR the discovery
is Gu!y this-to lessen pain aud suffer
ng in the human family. II is quite
enough reward. Once my method il
adopted here IN America u will be
adopted hy the whole world, Tor this
IS TIE country in which great achieve
mpBtS I'm the surgical and medical
worl are sent broadcast and are given
bcCi to ly surgeons throughout the
world"
Professor IunncsCo is on three
months vacation and hNs many en-
sucrmcnts throughout the United
States
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