TY - JOUR
AU - Dunn, Louis
AB - 
The desirability and safety of local anesthesia is well established among those who are familiar with its advantages. Its more extensive employment has been curtailed by the lack of a suitable apparatus. The ordinary glass syringe has been the only equipment available. It is no wonder, therefore, that the profession has shown lack of enthusiasm for local anesthesia in major surgery.
The pneumatic injector invented by Dr. R. E. Farr furnishes surgery with an unusually efficient instrument for local anesthesia. It consists of a solution receptacle and a compression gas tank as the driving force. Another instrument recently devised for local anesthesia is the Babcock self-filling syringe. This also consists of a fluid container, and uses the gravity method to fill the syringe.
My interest in the development of a satisfactory device led me to devise an apparatus based on an entirely different principle, and resulted in the construction of a

TI - A NEW SYRINGE FOR LOCAL ANESTHESIA
JF - JAMA
DO - 10.1001/jama.1921.92630520003012b
DA - 1921-12-24
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-medical-association/a-new-syringe-for-local-anesthesia-TsPzZC2lAd
SP - 2055
EP - 2056
VL - 77
IS - 26
DP - DeepDyve
ER -