Word: anesthetist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...born; four years later came Charles Horace. The boys went everywhere with their father. When he performed operations, they were his assistants: Will acted as first assistant while Charlie stood by with needles and thread stuck in his lapels; before he was twelve, Charlie became his father's anesthetist. "We were reared in medicine," Dr. Will once said, "as a farmer boy is reared in farming...
...Bailey's routine: an incision is made just below the breastbone. The surgeon strokes the heart from below the diaphragm, "with quick forcible movement for half a minute." He withdraws his hand for a minute while the anesthetist injects adrenalin, then makes a bigger opening, starts squeezing the heart...
Oxygen. Five years ago, Anesthetist John Henry Evans of Buffalo began to inject oxygen under the skin of swollen joints, to dull pain. He discovered that the oxygen often "has beneficial effects" on early arthritis and other inflammations of nerves, muscles, joints. Said Dr. Evans: "Within 24 hours . . . after injection . . . the local temperature drops; the redness disappears; the swelling is reduced, and the tissues become much less sensitive to pressure...