South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-08-11
DIR. GEO. w. Grille.

/ The graybeards Of medicine are sit
ting at the feet Of young American
from Cleveland. o.
This young man. it appears from
medical journals, has all but barred
the angel of death from the operating
/ table.
, His name is George w. Grille. De-
/ spite his youth, he has long been a
noted surgeon. 1t was he who was
called 10 the deathbed OF Z. II. Harri-
man TO decide if an operation would
save the railroad wizard. He decided
that 1t would not
! The news in the medical world is
I that Grille has invented a method
which frees surgical operations from
shock-from the agony following the
knife
/ Do you know what that means?
You thought, perhaps, that the use
/ of chlOrOfOrm and ether and other
| forms of anesthetics keeps the patient
/ from feeling the pain of an operation.
II does but--Only while the actual OPP
Grafton is in progress.
| The use of ether or chlorOfOrm has
never been able to free the patient
/ from the terrors of anticipating the
| operation. They have not sofrened
the awful night of pain and fear i'm
mediately following an operation. In
! a word, they have not been able to
prevent a terrific shock to the entire
human anatomy. And time out of
! time you've heard of operations that
were entirely Successful, but the pa
tient died of shock.
DR.. Crile's discovery has just been
/ formally announced before "a great
meeting of eminent surgeons in Lon
L
were accorded the greatest honor.
/ Following that meeting. London
| Lancet, the greatest medical jour
| nal in the world, secured from DIR.
| Grille a description of the new surgery.
/ His psper in Lancet was lengthy.
and was written especially for the eyes
of medical men, but from the article
we have secured the following brief
| account Of Surgery Without Shock.
When the patient comes to his hos
pital, he examines him carefully. He
| finds out, first. what operation is nee
essary. Then, if he finds that the
| case, in his opinion, is one upon which
he can properly operate, he places the
patient under treatment for a day or
/ two. He realizes that it is the per-
| sonal fear and the reactions from the
knife's pain that causes deaths from
| shock-in word, that these are
shock. So he Systematically goes
about removing this fear and elimin-
ating the pain.
The treatment of the patient con-
sists of putting him under the infu-
ence Of anaesthetics. DR.. Grille uses
| practically three kinds of anaeStheticS.
| One kind is called local. Cocaine is of
this type. Cocaine put on the flesh
stops all sensation in the part TO which
! it is applied. DR.. Grille uses a prepa-
| ration similar to cocaine.
And he also uses an anaesthetic like
ether or chloroform that puts the pa
| tient TO sleep. He uses these two once
| or twice under the form of treatments.
The first time the patient takes them
he is assured that he is not to be OPP
| Grated upon. He falls into pleasant
sleep and when he wakes he feels fine.
The next day the same thing is done.
BY the tine the third day arrives the
patient has lost all fear of taking the
stuff the doctor gives him.
This time, after he has fellen asleep,
he is wheeled into the operating room
and the operation is performed. Then
another substance is injected into the
tissues around where the operation
has taken place which prevents the
sensation of pain, and this effect of
absence of pain lasts for several days
after the operation has been perform
ed.
After the work Of the knife is COM
pleted the patient is put back in bed.
When he wakes he doesn't feel any
pain and he Is not conscious of having
undergone any unusual experience.
BY the time the effects Of the drug
wears off so has all reason for pain
and all the patient has TO dc is to walt
until the muscles that have been sep
arated in the operation grow together
again so as to be as active as he ever
was.
The preparation DR.. Grille uses to