Word: anesthetist
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...Anesthetist of Mattoon, Ill. (pop. 17,500) is a tall, thin man who wears a black skullcap, and carries an instrument not unlike a Flit gun. He moves through the night as nimbly and secretly as a cat, squirting a sweetish gas through bedroom windows. His victims cough, awaken with burning throats, and find themselves successively afflicted with: 1) nausea, 2) a temporary paralysis, and 3) a desire to describe their experiences in minutest detail. This latter result often enables them to overcome their symptoms with startling dispatch...
None of them has seen the Mad Anesthetist at his work, nor heard his hollow laugh. But last week citizens of Mattoon were watching for him, any and every midnight...
...Anesthetist began his nocturnal visitations two weeks ago, mainly concentrating his fiendish attacks on women. One said a smell like gardenias "made her legs tingle." Another said a fat man had squirted perfume into her bedroom. Mrs. Carl Cordes discovered a damp pink cloth on her back porch. She sniffed it and immediately "felt as though a charge of electricity had gone through me." She was taken to a hospital with burns and temporary paralysis...
...once obvious to Mattoon's housewives that the anesthetist had baited Mrs. Cordes' porch with a cloth soaked in the same substance he squirted through windows. After that the number of his victims increased. Mattoon's ten policemen, who had been ignoring the archcriminal, now sallied forth at night, seeking they knew not what and not finding it. Chicago newsmen swept joyfully down upon Mattoon and wired leering accounts of The Gas Fiend, The Thin Man of Mattoon, The Mad Phantom and The Screwball Chemist...
...Krantz made his anesthetic by combining ether with cyclopropane (a modern, quick-acting inhalation anesthetic). First he tried it on dogs, rats, mice, mon. keys, the hearts of frogs. Then he tried it on Mrs. Constance Black, an expert anesthetist in her own right. She reported that the anesthetic was "pleasant," an adjective few have applied to ether...