Word: anestheticized
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Dr. Allen next tried choking off a human tumor. For his subject he chose a 76-year-old man with a large funguslike growth on his cheek, just in front of his ear. Working with Dr. Allen, Surgeon Robert Emery Brennan gave the patient a local anesthetic, punctured the skin...
Dr. Shorell claims that his operation is unique, for most plastic surgeons, he says, only tighten skin, pay little attention to sagging muscles, thus leave their patients with a masklike expression. Face-lifting is done under a local anesthetic, lasts about an hour and a half, is practically bloodless. Patients...
4) Nitrous oxide was reintroduced as an anesthetic agent by Gardner Q. Colton in the 1860s. It was not "forgotten until 1900."
2) Horace Wells did not have a patient die under an anesthetic.
A young man lay drowsing on the operating table, numbed by morphine and a local anesthetic. Dimly, without pain, he felt the surgeon's electric drill cut through the bony tissue of his deafened ear. Then "a little pinch," and suddenly a great roar, like the waves of the...