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First of all, Mrs. Doe was not rushed to the hospital the night before her operation. Because she was tired, nervous and rundown, her doctor put her in the hospital three days early. She had time to rest up; the hospital staff had time to make blood tests, check her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Better Operation | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

For grownups with toothache, who cannot be helped by these preventive measures, there were a few crumbs of comfort. Best crumbs: an anesthetic for painless drilling (applied to the tooth without a hypodermic) called "topocaine", a new kind of gold crown for front teeth, so cunningly contrived (by the University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dentists' Progress | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

Certain organisms can stand intense cold; some survive temperatures of -272° Centigrade. Cold is a preservative and an anesthetic; it slows metabolism, kills pain, halts the spread of infection. Grossman & Allen found that when they packed a gangrenous leg in ice before amputation, reducing its skin temperature from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Safe on Ice | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

Early one morning last week, in East Orange, N.J., four-year-old Tommy Stanley got hold of half an orange. He tried to swallow it, got it stuck in his throat, choked & choked. His father banged him futilely on the back, then yelled for a doctor. Luckily, there was one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctor in the House | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

She was not insane. But Psychiatrist Louis Lipschutz, clinical director of the hospital, decided to try psychosurgery. (She consented.) A surgeon carefully opened her skull (using a local anesthetic), sliced into the frontal lobes of the brain, cut most of the nerve connections to the thalamus (crossroads of the brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Kill or Cure | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

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