Word: anesthetist
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What time royalty from Japan was viewing with disappointment the mighty cataract of Niagara (see p. 24), Mrs. William Korker, anesthetist, squirted cocaine into the beady left eye of small King Prajadhipok as he reclined in an improvised operating room at Ophir Hall. Then Dr. John Martin Wheeler went to work with tiny instruments and extracted the cataract (clouded crystalline lens) that caused His Majesty's U. S. visit. Soon the King cried gladly: "I see light...
Some 20 years ago he became converted to the remarkable manipulative surgery of the then young Herbert Atkinson Barker**? who was not an orthodox surgeon, whom the medical profession contemned for " irregular" practices. Dr. Axham served as his anesthetist...
...five years, until 1911, their relations were scanned but not disturbed. That year the General Council acted, forced the surrender of Dr. Axham's license, ostracized him. He could not practice at all, although he could and did continue to act as anesthetist for Osteopath Barker, who through the years acquired more and more fame, until his knighting. That event gave a spurt to the propaganda of laymen for the restoration of Dr. Axham's dignities. The press assumed interest. Parliament heard of the case. Yet the General Council remained obdurate...
After asserting that this body "enjoys powers which no political ruler in the civilized world would dream of claiming," Mr. Shaw proceeded to wax indignant against the Council for blacklisting not only osteopaths but "any physician who dares to assist an osteopath as his anesthetist...
...letter then recounted how the patients of Herbert Barker, famed "bone setter," "suffered terrible agony under his treatment" until a practitioner, Dr. Axham, though realizing that he would incur the anger of the General Medical Council thought it his duty to offer his services as an anesthetist. . . . The Council found him guilty of 'infamous professional conduct' and deprived him of the right to practice medicine...