Word: anestheticized
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In a white frame laboratory on an outpost of the Essar Ranch near San Antonio, an intense young scientist is operating on a partially anesthetized cow. He injects a local anesthetic into a shaved area on the flank, swabs it with alcohol and makes an incision. Ten minutes later he...
It pleased me very much to read of the experiment with Read deliveries at the Grace-New Haven Community Hospital [TIME, Jan. 31]. Both my children were delivered there while my husband was studying at Yale -the first in the time-honored tradition of sweat and agony, and the second...
Last week, doctors searching for a safe and effective anesthetic seemed nearer their goal. The new technique, gradually improved over the last several years, is a variation of spinal anesthesia (first used for general surgery at the turn of the century). Doctors describe it, in a jawbreaking phrase, as "heavy...
Hopeful Future. The new technique has obvious advantages. Because the "heavy" anesthetic is heavier than the spinal fluid, doctors can control its rise in the spine by gravity (by tilting the delivery table until the proper areas are anesthetized). In conventional spinal anesthesia, the anesthetic may rise too far and...
More than 20,000 cases have been reported in medical journals. In the current Connecticut State Medical Journal, Drs. Max L. Berlowe and Francis L. Herrick describe the results of 200 cases in the Grace-New Haven (Conn.) Community Hospital. Of the first 100 patients, 76% got complete relief from...