Word: anestheticized
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Under a hot lamp in the green-tiled operating room, the patient lay masked and draped in white. Only a six-inch patch of iodine-stained abdomen was exposed. Although numbed below the waist by a spinal anesthetic, he could hear everything that was going on.
For maximum surgical success, hundreds of delicate precautions must be observed. A surgeon should make incisions with "a deliberate sweep of the scalpel." but "the belly of the scalpel should be swept across the tissues, not pressed into them." Sutures should be of silk "so fine that it - breaks when...
The Hospital is to most hospital romances what the Mayo Clinic is to an osteopath. Not even during the recent epidemic of doctors' and nurses' memoirs has a book smelled so strongly of ether and carbolic. Above all, Kenneth Fearing is a specialist in diagnosing hospital life as...
In Milwaukee last week Dr. Roland Metzler Klemme, St. Louis surgeon, described what he considers the best modern technique for relief of tic douloureux. It is a brain operation performed with the patient in a sitting position, under local anesthetic. Dr. Klemme makes a hole about the size of a...
Young Dr. Alvin Edward Strock of Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital has long furrowed his brow over this front-tooth problem. The simplest procedure, he thought, would be to insert a peg in the socket of the extracted tooth, then cement a false tooth to the protruding end...