Word: anestheticized
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The ghost surgeon in this case was the hero of Erich Maria Remarque's bestseller about prewar Paris, Arch of Triumph, but medical ghosts walk not only in fiction. They perform operations in U.S. hospitals every day. It works this way: the family doctor tells a patient that an...
¶ Lord Raglan, commander in chief in the Crimea at the age of 65, had never led troops into battle in his life. Lord Raglan's personal courage was first class. "After his right arm was amputated without an anesthetic on the field of Water loo, he called out...
¶ Doctors and hospital authorities should print leaflets telling parents what they in turn should tell children who are to be admitted for operations, said the A.M.A. Journal. A simple, forthright explanation to the child-of the operation itself, of the anesthetic, and of what all those white-garbed people...
Publicizing these facts would certainly be the first step in telling people what is actually going on at the University. But a detailed record of research results and famous alumni names, printed by the University in the kind of brochure that many Harvard departments use to list their accomplishments, will...
¶ Tested on humans for the first time, trifluoroethyl vinyl ether turned out to be a promising new anesthetic. Product of 15 years research by Dr. John C. Krantz Jr., Johns Hopkins pharmacology professor, the fluorinated ether puts a patient to sleep in 27 seconds (a standard ether takes up...