Word: analgesiac
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...first a cancer, except one at the tip of the tongue, causes no pain. But as the growth increases and eats into sensory nerves, the pain becomes indescribably horrible. Morphine has long been the doctor's analgesiac. Dr. Henry Swartley Ruth, Philadelphia homeopath, who attended the Congress of Anesthetists in Manhattan last week, recommended alcohol as a pain killer. He traces the sensory nerve leading from the site of the cancer and injects about a cubic centimeter of 45% alcohol near the point where the nerve trunk joins the spinal cord. The alcohol deadens the pain completely, does...
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