Word: anestheticized
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Hypnosis was first used as a surgical anesthetic in India in 1845 but was quickly abandoned with the introduction of ether the following year. The practice languished for decades, becoming, at least in the public eye, little more than a parlor trick. In 1958 it was sanctioned by the American...
The strong, antiseptic, anesthetic odor of postmodernism clings to Apex Hides the Hurt, a sense that you're watching the shadow play of symbols of things and not the things themselves. There are things around that hurt--vacant late-capitalist follies, personal disillusionment, buried historical crimes. But Whitehead is unable...
All four of us struggled to "papoose" the boy - strapping him down to a casket-shaped plywood board with big thick Velcro flaps - so firmly that he would be safely immobilized while I injected, cleansed, trimmed and sutured. Without the wiggling this was not too hard. With him still awake...
"Of all the insects that invade your home, bed bugs are the worst, because they are hard to control and even harder to prevent," says Richard Pollack, Ph.D., an entomologist at the Harvard School of Public Health. The bugs hide close to their warm-blooded prey in mattresses, box springs...
In March, after friends organized a fund-raiser, the Terpstras traveled to Chaoyang hospital in Beijing. There, under local anesthetic, Willie had two holes drilled into the front of her head and about two million cells injected into her brain tissue. Performing the 50-min. operation was neurosurgeon Huang Hongyun...