Word: anestheticized
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At dawn one day last week, in the Lima Maternity Hospital, Hilda Trujillo gave birth to a daughter weighing a trifle over six pounds. The mother took no anesthetic, and the five-hour labor was entirely normal; so was the child, except that it was perhaps a month premature. Not...
Holes in the Head. Three weeks ago, after innumerable experiments on animals to test accuracy, effectiveness and safety, the first human patients were wheeled in. Preparation took far longer than actual treatment. Under a local anesthetic four little dents were burred into the patient's skull, one above each...
On the day of operation, each patient got only a local anesthetic, an injection of procaine hydrochloride into the scalp. Then, with a drill and saw, Dr. Meyers removed a piece of the skull, four by five inches. Ultrasound cannot be transmitted through bone because on meeting such resistance it...
With a small hypodermic, the surgeon injected a second anesthetic, procaine, into the upper eyelid. A nurse peeled the lid back. The surgeon gripped the muscle on the inside of the eyelid with pincers, pulled it out slightly, and clamped it to the skin near the roots of the lashes...
Tomiko waited half an hour in the recovery room for the anesthetic to wear off, was again examined by the surgeon. He explained that her eyes would be puffy for a day or two, asked her to return each of the next two days for a check. At 11:30...