Word: anestheticized
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Roll Back the Lid. It was 10 a.m. when Tomiko took her place in the busy waiting room. Within 15 minutes she was explaining to a doctor that she would like a double eyelid operation. Examination showed no reason why the girl should not have the operation (technically, blepha-roplasty...
How Surgery Uses It. Today purified natural forms of curare and also synthetic varieties are available to medicine. Unlike the Indians' brews, they do not vary in strength from batch to batch. Since their effects are precisely measurable and predictable, surgeons use them to relax muscles by blocking the...
Local Anesthetic. In Budapest, the newspaper People's Freedom carried a want ad: "Girl, 23, with glasses, high-school graduate, living in country, would like to meet and marry serious man who does not like to make acquaintances through ads."
Takahashi injected 2 cc. of anesthetic into Ohmura's spinal column, and Ohmura gave himself a local anesthetic. Then the nurse handed the patient a scalpel. Squinting belly wards, without the aid of a mirror, slender (137 Ibs.) Dr. Ohmura made a 2-in. vertical incision, helped Takahashi suture...
Britain's new Prime Minister Harold Macmillan prides himself on being a blunt man, and he was blunt when he addressed a Conservative Party political rally at Leicester last week. Said he: "There is no difference between Socialism and Communism, except this: Socialism is soft, Communism is hard; Socialism...