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9,000 Years since humans first had holes drilled into their molars, according to analyses of nine bodies found in Pakistan, adding four millennia to the known history of dentistry 160 Estimated number of years that dentists and doctors have been using anesthetic
160 Estimated number of years that dentists and doctors have been using anesthetic
Hypnosis was first used as a surgical anesthetic in India in 1845 but was quickly abandoned with the introduction of ether the following year. The practice languished for decades, becoming, at least in the public eye, little more than a parlor trick. In 1958 it was sanctioned by the American...
The strong, antiseptic, anesthetic odor of postmodernism clings to Apex Hides the Hurt, a sense that you're watching the shadow play of symbols of things and not the things themselves. There are things around that hurt--vacant late-capitalist follies, personal disillusionment, buried historical crimes. But Whitehead is unable...
All four of us struggled to "papoose" the boy - strapping him down to a casket-shaped plywood board with big thick Velcro flaps - so firmly that he would be safely immobilized while I injected, cleansed, trimmed and sutured. Without the wiggling this was not too hard. With him still awake...