Word: anestheticized
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Chewed-Up Steel. Dentistry on the vicious and powerful baboon is quite a trick. The beast is first squeezed into the bottom of a special cage, where it gets a heavy injection of tranquilizer. Then it can be hauled off to the operating table, where anesthetic is given as needed...
When pain becomes so severe that doctors call it "intractable," they mean that it cannot be controlled by any safe and simple dosage of drugs. Even the most severe pain can usually be alleviated by cutting the appropriate nerve fibers in the spinal cord, but this in itself is considered...
He is just as critical of his own profession. He regards as shameful the tendency to deny patients the relaxing and literally heart-warming effects of their accustomed drink. Equally shameful, he believes, is the average physician's refusal to use liquor as a medicine. It is, he asserts...
The exploits of London's elusive eagle made headlines for twelve solid days in an extraordinary national preoccupation with what the Daily Mail called "the most celebrated eagle of his day." Britons sent in dozens of suggestions for recapturing Goldie: someone urged that he be brought to earth with...
Music by Muzak was soft and low. Two Sleepy People and So Bears My Heart for You flowed over the operating room in Houston's Methodist Hospital. But the patient on the table, His Royal Highness Prince Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, Duke of Windsor, was already...