Pantocaine in Eye-Surgery *Being a paper read before the Missionary Medical Conference held at Kodaikanal in May 1933.
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Cocaine has so far held the field as the only satisfactory drug for surface anaesthesia in eyesurgery, but its toxic effect has always limited its use, and it is not often that the mydriasis and the slight paresis in accommodation that it produces are welcomed. Besides, the difficulty experienced in keeping an account of its use in conformity with the excise regulations has always made the eye surgeon long for a safer substitute. For these reasons, every surface anaesthetic that was put on the market was given an eager trial in this hospital, and we have now found pantocaine, which we have used on over 3,000 cases, +o be an effective substitute for cocaine, with none of the disadvantages of the latter. Not being so toxic
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