Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1910 — USE MUSIC AS ANAESTHETIC [ARTICLE]

USE MUSIC AS ANAESTHETIC

Employed to Soothe and Tranquillize Dreams of Persons Undergoing Surgical Operations. A physician of Geneva, in Switzerland, has successfully employed music to soothe and tranquillize the dreams of persons who have taken ether or chloroform in order to undergo surgical operations. The music is begun as soon as the anaesthetic begins to take effect, and is continued until the patient awakes. It Is said that not only does this treatment prevent the hysterical effects sometimes witnessed, but that the patient, on recovering, feels uc nausea or illness. Another physician uses blueiiight to produce anaesthesia. The light from a 16-candle power electric lamp, furnished with a blue bulb, is concentrated upon the patient’s eyes, but the head and the lamp are enveloped in a blue veil, to shut out extraneous light. Insensibility is produced in two f or three minutes.