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So far, doctors have reported about 1,000 cases of childbirth with continuous caudal anesthesia (TIME, Feb. 1) without loss of a single mother from the anesthetic. Its advantages: it cuts off pain sensations, without impairing a mother's ability to help the childbirth process; it usually shortens delivery...
For an anesthetic cone, Lipes used a tea strainer through which the patient breathed ether; for the incision, a broken-handled scalpel from the ship's medicine chest; for antiseptic, alcohol drained from torpedoes; for muscle retractors (to hold the incision open), bent tablespoons. Oversize rubber gloves encumbered Lipes...
If allowed to remain undisturbed, however, the oyster will relax its muscles slightly, opening the shell and drawing in some of the surrounding water. The starfish, in the meantime, has been secreting an acid digestive juice in large quantities from great glands which fill all of its five arms. This...
Most thought the method too new for general publicity, some refused to discuss the anesthetic, some feared the injection would be dangerous because of the needle's nearness to the spinal column. Dr. George W. Kosmak of Manhattan, editor of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, said he...
Chief of Auto Ordnance food research is John Cornelius Donnelly, who has been dry-pressing since 1934, when he first applied the principle to coffee, freezing roasted beans while he squeezed them at 1,500-2,000 Ib. per sq. in. to produce a product that yields almost double the...