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The theory behind nerve block therapy: many ills and pains are aggravated and prolonged by blood vessel spasms. To stop the spasms, anesthetize the nerves that control them. Surgeons use two types of nerve-blocking injections: i) novocaine, a temporary anesthetic-designed to break up the spasm cycle; 2) alcohol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Block for Pain | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

About one surgery patient in a thousand dies under anesthetic. The usual emergency treatment, when a patient's heart stops, is artificial respiration and an adrenalin injection into the heart. Mr. Bailey said he had abandoned this uncertain, time-consuming method for more direct action. He cuts open the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sawbones Get Together | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

Bitter Ender. In Brentwood, England, doctors prepared wisecracking William Parr for an operation, rejoiced to think ;hat the anesthetic would silence his quips, :found "This Side Up" printed across his jared stomach.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 4, 1946 | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

Modern science has developed dozens of new pain killers (novocaine, spinal blocks, cyclopropane, sodium pentothal, etc.), but ether is still safest and best. Enthusiastic centennial speakers noted that anesthesia has brought many boons to man besides easier human surgery: e.g., it made possible a vast amount of painless experimentation on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ether Centennial | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

There was one damper to all the enthusiasm: after a century of study, scientists still have no answer to the elementary question-how does an anesthetic produce its effects?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ether Centennial | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

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