CORNING, James Leonard
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Spinal anaesthesia and local medication of the cord.N. Y. med. J., 42, 483-85, 1885.Spinal anesthesia introduced. Corning showed experimentally that cocaine exerts a prolonged anesthetic effect while arresting the circulation in the anesthetized area. He first described injection of cocaine between the spinous processes of the lower dorsal vertebrae in a dog (see his earlier paper in the same journal, 1885, 42, 317-19) and then in a human being. Subjects: ANESTHESIA › Cocaine, ANESTHESIA › Spinal Anesthesia |
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Local anesthesia in general medicine and surgery.New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1886.The first textbook on local anesthesia. Subjects: ANESTHESIA › Local Anesthesia |