Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1914 — NEW DRUG AIDS SURGERY [ARTICLE]

NEW DRUG AIDS SURGERY

Anaesthesia Much Easier When Urethane Is Used, and .Less Dangerous. London. —Urethane, the new anaesthetic, Is exciting immense interest in the scientific world. Various experiments from which great hopes are aroused have been made at Cambridge, with animals as the subjects. The drug is a combination of urea and alcohol, administered hypodermically. After a short period of drowsiness the subject passes Into a state of deep unconsciousness, becomes insensible to all pain, and, therefore, any operation may be carried out with perfect security. The advantage claimed for urethane is that heart failure never occurs where it has been property used. Another advantage is that its administration is not accompanied by the choking sensation experienced with ether and chloroform.