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Died. Mrs. Annie 'Fellows Johnston, 68, authoress, after long illness; at Pewee Valley, Ky. Born in Evansville, Ind. she attained fame as the author of the "Little Colonel'' books, a series of juvenilia much admired by the girls of the last generation. The heroine, a bright child...
When Dr. Kyle Wood Golley and Dr. Edward Patrick Smith saw what Mrs. Forster was producing, they sent a hurry call for Surgeon Daniel James Pessagno. He cut the children apart, left each about an inch of colon. He used no anesthetic, for newborn children feel no pain. Since it...
In a Los Angeles hospital last week a Mrs. Maude Branton, 43, clergyman's wife, inhaled ether, oxygen and nitrous oxide as anesthetic for an operation. This mixture of gases is explosive. In Mrs. Branton's case something ignited the mixture in her lungs. The mixture exploded, the...
Last May 10 the American Medical Association published a thoroughgoing study on "the hazard of explosion of anesthetics." The report noted that "the perfect form of anesthesia, free from all dangers, has not yet been discovered." And: "The chief hazards . . . that have to be compared are fatal failure of respiration...
They have seen anesthetics making the water-clear nerve cells become first cloudy, then coagulated like the white of a hard-boiled egg. When the anesthetic wears off, the nerve cells resume their original water-clearness. Alcohol affects the nerves similarly. So do narcotics.