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Risky Past. An ideal childbirth anesthetic would be safe for both mother & child, take away most of the pain, leave the mother able to cooperate with nature. Doctors have tried many anesthetics, always found something wrong. The big drawback to "twilight sleep," popular in the early 1900s; the drugs used...
¶ Almost unnoticed by the numbed consumer, meat prices crawled to an alltime high. In New York City last week the average for porterhouse steak was $1.03 a pound, for round steak $1.00. ¶ In Michigan City, Ind., Mrs. Margaret Agnew, 33, had her dentist arrested for assault and battery...
Doctors have not been able to do much for a victim of apoplexy (stroke) until he recovers from the initial shock. Now Drs. N. C. Gilbert and Geza de Takats, of Chicago's St. Luke's Hospital, think that they may have a treatment in procaine (the local...
The Technique. First Dr. Smithy designed a new valvulotome, an instrument for cutting valves. Essentially, it is a tube containing a small lancet with a special biting end ; with it he hoped to cut out the scar tissue that forms on the heart valves of many rheumatic fever victims, and...
New anesthetics have replaced sick-making ether, or made it possible to use much less. Hangover-proof cyclopropane was first demonstrated only 15 years ago; curare, a South American arrow poison introduced four years ago, relaxes muscles, reduces the amount needed of any general anesthetic. Sodium pentothal (the "truth drug...