Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1908 — SEES KNIFE; FEELS IT NOT. [ARTICLE]

SEES KNIFE; FEELS IT NOT.

Newly Discovered Anesthetic Works - Marvels on Patients. Dr. Hal W. Foster of Kansas City, Mo., using an anesthetic of his own discovery, assisted by Dr. John Young Brown of this city, has performed four operations at the city hospital which bid fair to work a revolution in surgical science. In all of the operations the patients were perfectly conscious during the ordeal, talked to the operator and watched his movements closely. One of the operations was for strangulated hernia, a most delicate and dangerous undertaking. Despite the gravity of the operation it was performed quickly, successfully and without pain to tue patient. Dr. Foster has not yet announced the ingredients in the manufacture of his new “pain killer.” It is not dangerous and the evil results to be feared from administering ether ana chloroform need not be feared. Persons with a weak ueart and other constitutional weaknesses can go under the knife without fear. Those who saw the operations are convinced that Dr. Foster has made a discovery which will prove of incalculable value to mankind.