Paris, Wednesday.
An important discovery of a new anaesthetic, entirely obviating the dangers of chloroform, ether, and other similar drugs, has been reported at the Academy of Medicine by Professor Jonnesco, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Bucharest. It consists of a solution of strychnine and stovaine, which is injected, and produces absolute insensibility to pain, though the subject is perfectly conscious all the time the operation is proceeding. The new anaesthetic has been employed in 609 operations without a single accident or untoward incident. Professor Jonnesco submitted the new anaesthetic to the French Academy of Medicine a year ago, and claims that he has demonstrated its safety and benignity by a year's successful administration to patients of all ages, from 21 months to 75 years.
The Irish Times, October 14th, 1909
