The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-01-25
''ELECTRIC SLEEP"
LATEST MARVEL
Surgery, Long Hampered by Fear
of Effect on Heart, Is Promised
Wide Scope.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 25.-Years
OF investigation by noted surgeons tor
perfect anaesthetic which would
have no detrimental effect on the
heart or Other vial organs Of the pa
tlent have apparently been rewarded.
Electricity has come TO the relief OF
the surgeons. and investigation going
ON mere and abroad, just made public,
shows that electricity Is Tar superior
To any OF the dlugs now used 60 pro-
ducc analgesia.
This discovery. II confirmed by fu-
ture Investigations. as is confidently
expected, will mean revolution In
modern methods OF surgery. Persons
suffering from diseases that call. for
operations. hut who cannot get relief
through danger OF death II put under
ether or chloroform, can be cured. for
electricity. when used as an anaes-
thetic. has no bad effects on the
heart
Electric Sleep" Not Fatal.
II produces a state of insensibility,
nv acting on the nerve centery Of the
brain. that is called electric sleep y
The sleep Is not fatal. and when the
electric current Is opened the infu-
ence Is Immediately lost and the pa
tient becomes conscious without feel
Ing any Of the after-effects common
with drug anaesthetics.
Not only has electricity been found
OF service In surgical cases, but, ac-
cording TO preliminary communities
tions recently submitted TO medical
Journals by leading physicians. can be
used for Tesuscitating electrocuted
animals.
The investigators are confident that
II this idea Is developed 1t will only
be a short time before 1t will be pos
sible to resuscitate human beings who
have been electrocuted
To Stephane Leduc of Naples the
medical profession is indebted for the
comprehensive study of electric
sleep" He has conducted numerous
experiments on animals, most of
them being very successful, and other
investigators are following in his
footsteps.
Woman Surgeon Successful.
In this country the chief investi.
gator in this field has been woman
doctor of New York city. Dr. Louise
G. Robinovitch. Dr. Robinovitch has
performed some of the most delicate
operations known to surgery with
electricity as her anaesthetic. and
has been very successful. All her OPP
erntions have been on animals. the
WORK being still too much In the ex-
perimental stage to be used freely on
human beings.
Some OF the operations she has sue
cessfully performed are trepanning
within exposure OF the brain. expos
ure OF the large artegies of the neck
and operations calling for abdominal
sections She has found that electri.
city can be used in operations that
are either local or internal and with
equal success.
In some cases when It Is used local
~ the patient is awake and can see
the opetatiou as when stovaine y. Is
used. without experiencing any pain.
At the Philadelphia general huspi'
tai the city will shortly procure the
necessary apparatus TO be used TO
produce the electric sleep" and will
conduct a series Of exhaustive inves-
legations. Dr. Mihran Krikor Kassa-
bian, director of the Roentgen ray la
boratory at the Philadelphia hospital.
Is now engaged in this work with DR..
Solomon Solls-Cohen.