The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-01-10

weather in that he had his toes FROST
bitten, parted smilingly with all ten OF
them today and seemed to think it
was a joke-all because of stovaine.
The amputation of the toes was one
of the operations performed as a clinic
at the county hospital today as a de-
monstration of the qualities of stovaine
mixed with strychnine and injected
into the spinal cavity as an anaesthetic.
Dr. Thomas Jonnesco, the Roumanian
surgeon who discovered the usefulness
of the combination of drugs, admins
tered the anaesthetic. The amphi-
theater was crowded with men and wo-
men medical students. Many OF the
foremost surgeons of the city were
there to watch the proceedings.
Hurt you any?' Holt was asked
after the amputation had been COM
pleted by the specialists.
mot a Bit" he answered, craning
his neck upward from where he lay
to see his questioner. That's a great
game" he added, with a smile.
when did the sensation of feeling
cease?' was another inquiry
Il can't tell" he said, Il felt the in
lection, but did not feel any immediate
results. 1 only know that could
raise my feet for one or two minutes
and then l had no sensations in my
legs, 1 felt them putting the tourniquet
bandage on and that was the last"
Success was declared to have attend
ed both operations, but to the layman
it was more apparent in the case of
the shipbuilder. He was seemingly a
carefree soul and was as much inter-
ested in what stovaine was going to
do for him as any one there. He
talked with DR.. Victor L. Schrager,
former pupil Of DR.. Jonnesco and pre-
sent assistant of DR.. John B. Murphy,
the Chicago surgeon, who attended as
an interpreter and assistant to the
Roumanian visitor. The two chatted
and smiled, the patient evidently in
appreciation of q witty sally by DR..
Schrager.
Holt is a red-beared man with a
clear eye and robust frame. His face
wa sa study Of not unpleasant expect
ancy as he sat up with back barred to
receive the spinal injection that would
cut off communication of his legs with
the rest of him for a period. He
seemed as a man who had made up his
mind to the necessity for the removal
of part of his anatomy and wanted to
see it done with the least possible
fuss.
The surgeon from across the sea,
wearing sterilized garments and having
washed his hands for at least twenty
minutes continuously took from Nam
ME Montgomery, nurse, the small
syringe which his secretary, George
Soutzo, had filled from a bottle, and
examined the patients back, carefully
selected a spot explained afterward as
between the last dorsal and first lum-
Der vertebra) and plunged the needle
I into it, There was not vince of pain
even attending this, although the pa
tient felt it, as he afterward stated.
Then DR.. Jonnesco turned away. A
tiny stream of blood trickled from the
wound until Miss Montgomery slap
per a bit of gauze over it. Then the
patient was turned around so that his
feet were toward the audience of stu
dents and others. He was told to lie
down, a torniquet bandage being APP
piled to his legs before the anaestesia
was complete, and that was all he knew
about it until hois toes had been taken
on. g.
During the twenty-five minutes Of
the operation he chatted with DR., Sch
RACER and as the first toe, one Of his
big toes, was shipped off, he was seer
to smile without culver OF pain. Al
soon as he was wheeled out into a sid
room he became the center of an in
terested group of questioners.
ANOTHER PATIENT LESS SERENE
Another patient of the day was no
so serene. He left the operating room
; with a never again" expression anC
replying to the question: Would yol
have it that way again?" he replied
mot fer the world
This operation was for an inguna
hernia. The patient was James Gay
nor 1t was plainly apparent that n
was nervous when he was wheeled in
He also showed no start when the in
lection of stovaine into his spine wa
made, but when the cutting of the alb
dominal walls began he groaned con