Word: anesthesia
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Doctors who use spinal anesthesia freely got a sharp warning last week from Manhattan's famed Neurologist Foster Kennedy. Reporting, with two colleagues, on cases seen recently at Bellevue Hospital, Dr. Kennedy described several kinds of paralysis resulting from damage to the spinal cord during anesthesia...
...analytical (corresponding roughly to Freud's "conscious" mind), which perceives, remembers and reasons; and 2) the reactive (something like Freud's "unconscious"), which neither remembers nor reasons but simply records. Normally, the analytical mind is dominant. But it can be "switched off" by unconsciousness from injury or anesthesia, more often by acute emotional shock or physical pain...
...Maids & Agitators. Drs. Kroger and Freed believe that U.S. wives should enjoy sex as much as their husbands do. After serious study of the "psychosomatic aspects" of female coldness, Kroger and Freed view the sexual sensitivity of U.S. women as varying all the way from "complete anesthesia to exquisite receptivity." Convinced that 75% of U.S. women are more or less "sexually anesthetized," the doctors suggest a few basic causes of frigidity...
Whoever started the notion that because a thing is natural, it's necessarily painless . . . When D-day arrives this May for my next baby, I'll be glad of a little anesthesia after I've come to the end of my rope with Read's "breathing and relaxing...
...McEvitt was not satisfied with any of these methods, but it took him a long time to screw up enough courage to use sandpaper. He first tried local anesthesia, but found it was not enough. Now he puts his patients into the hospital, gives them a general anesthetic, and sandpapers the whole face (using No. 1½ or No. 2 grades of sandpaper) in a single operation. Bleeding is controlled by pressure. Then petrolatum gauze and a pressure dressing are applied. After ten days the wrappings come off, and the patient's face is usually healed. Local touching...