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Scientific American, Vol. 44, No. 15 (1881) (1881)

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arrel, while the clusion that a series of interrupted mechanical shocks to a tional view showing internal parts. cinders pass out of the spout and drop into a hod or other nerve would diminish its sensibility, and for that purpose in- receptacle. vented a small instrument whereby a succession of… … this mechanical excitation produced rapid local analgesia, block against the low- often anesthesia, the maximum effect being by application er face of the upper over a nerve which could be compressed on a bony surface. ratchet. When placed against its skull its walls vibrate in harmony To those…

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