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 anesthetic 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
no nausea or illness.
Another physician uses blue light to produce anesthesia. The
light from a sixteen-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 or three
minutes.--_Harper’s Weekly._
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