Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-10
JONN[SC0S SURGERY
sToyAlNE ExPLolTER's AIM Is
TO LESSEN HUMAN sUF-
FERlNG.
PATIENT REMAINS CONSCIOUS
WHILE UNDER THE KNIFE

Bucharest Surgeon, Who Will Demon
strate In the United States Use Of
His Remarkable Anaesthetic, Tolls 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 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.
Professor Jonnesco lays no claim to
the discovery of stovaine, for it was
In 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 stovaine 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 Jonnesco.' 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 deadens the pain.
1t is said by those who have wit
messed his operations abroad that q
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
DR.. Jonnesco inserted 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 were 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 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" asked
one of the surgeons.
Eyes, quite, thank you," replied the
patient.
Professor Jonnesco 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
all over. 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
h 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 Wis
it to the United States was only tt
give Americans the benefit Of his dis
covery free of charge.
To Lessen Pain His Only Reward.
'Some $50 patients have undergone
operations by the new method since
its discovery in 19os,' said the pro
lessor. my reward for the discovery
is only this-to lessen pain and suffer
ing in the human family. 1t is quite
enough reward. Once my method i!
adopted, here in America it will bs
adopted by the whole world, for thi'
is the country in which great achieve
ments in the surgical and medica
world are sent broadcast and are givel
heed to by surgeons throughout thu
world"
Professor Jonnesco is on thre'
! mouths vacation and has many en-
gagements throughout the Unitet
States.
A Striking Change!
She used to strike his fancy in tn
days of long ago as homeward fron
the schoolhouse they strolled in tn
oftoroIow Ho corrtnd hor opd xya