Word: anestheticized
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Another coronary operation, as practiced by Washington's Hufnagel, involves cutting and tying off both mammary arteries-the chest wall can get along without their blood supply-and thus shunt their contents over into the coronaries. Hufnagel hit on this theory by chance when, during different cardiac operations, mammary...
¶ A lawyer who died at 56, never having felt keen pain. When one of his fingers was crushed in an accident, he bit it off. A spreading abscess which threatened his life evoked no pain even when it was lanced. Cataracts were removed from both eyes without an anesthetic...
Researchers have been busy with the distinction between pain itself and a sufferer's reaction to it. Why does a Szechwan coolie grit his teeth and stifle his cries when, with no anesthetic, his leg is sawed off, while a Madison Avenue account man leaps out of his grey...
Some advances on the frontiers of medicine as reported last week to the A.M.A.: ¶Anesthesia for major surgery is usually a complex procedure to kill pain, induce sleep and relax the muscles, and needs half a dozen chemicals. From the Brooklyn VA Hospital, Drs. Henry I. Lipson and Henry...
The old one wonders why a certain anesthetic is not used more often, and the young one chuckles: "It causes bleeding. So do we." Suddenly, the senior surgeon explodes: "Can we get that damn light a little better? It's not satisfactory . . . Holy suffering Moses! Now it's...