“…He urges careful psychologic preparation of the patient, test doses of drugs to be used, mild sedation for 24 hours before operation, and careful timing of the sedative for maxi¬ mum effect. Schillinger 22 refers the more accurate timing of pentobarbital sodium by continuous intravenous drip during operation. He 23 also suggests that better topical anesthesia over the site of a superior rectus suture is obtained by introduc¬ ing an irrigating stream of the anesthetic up under the lid with a blunt needle.…”