On the supposed anaesthetic influence of electricity / by I.N. Loomis.

  • Loomis, I. N.
Date:
[1858?]
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    lJ Loomis—Supposed Ancesthetie Influence of Electricity. 149 and the most stimulating expectorants in which there was some brandy, nutritious broths, etc., kept him breathing and spitting until the 29th, eight days from the time he took to his bed, he had so rallied that he could sit up and was soon out. I intended to have noticed other cases, some of which re- quired the lancet and other potent remedies, but this article being extended already beyond proper limits, I will close by congratulating myself on the fact that having been gov- erned in the treatment of pneumonia by the above patholo- gical views, I have not lost a single case of pleurisy or pneu- monia since the death of Mr. J. A. L., which occurred the 16th of January, 1854. ARTICLE V. On the Supposed Ancesthetie Influence of Electricity. By Prof. I. K Loomis, M. D. {The substance of the following paper first appeared in an article in the Savannah Republican, of 7th instant, and another in the Savannah Georgian, of 10th inst.~] The statement has appeared in several Dental Journals, in various public prints, and in two or more Medical Jour- nals, that a current of electricity, or rather a series of shocks, passed through a tooth during its extraction, greatly lessens, or entirely prevents the ordinary pain of the operation. If such a current, or series of shocks can so obtund the sensory nerves of the parts affected in the extraction of a tooth as to prevent pain, the same would be true of other parts in- volved in any surgical operation. We propose to examine this subject from a scientific point of view, and ascertain if possible, how much reliance may be placed in the statement alluded to above. The legitimate effect of a current of electricity upon the ■'• \ Lw\