Word: anesthetist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night in 1908, for instance, at a time when confinements, complete with delivery, grossed him $8 apiece, he traveled by streetcar through a blizzard to help a young mother give birth to triplets. All were forceps deliveries. Midway through the business the young father, who was helping out as anesthetist, fainted dead away. Dr. Luce left him on the floor and carried on alone. A year later he was going sleepless to make 40 calls a day by foot and by buggy in an effort to halt a milk-borne epidemic that felled almost a fifth of his town...