Word: chloroform
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A.M.A.'s birth in 1847, Fishbein thinks, ranks in historical and scientific importance with two other events of that same year: Helmholtz's discovery of the law of conservation of energy and the first use of chloroform in anesthesia. In those days, it took only 16 weeks of medical study to get a doctor's diploma. The A.M.A. was founded, by a zealous doctor named Nathan Smith Davis, primarily to raise medical training standards...
...promised, the terrorists struck. H. A. I. Collins, a director of a Palestine bank, was entertaining a young Jewish woman at tea when a knock summoned him to the door. Outside stood a beautiful Jewess with four armed Yemenite Jews. They threw Collins to the floor, slapped a chloroform-soaked rag against his face. The beautiful Jewess screamed, "Take him to the cemetery." The four men crammed him into a gunny sack, fled...
Courtney Fred Rogers, 26, is a tall, bookish, satyr-faced church organist who lost his family, one by one. His old grandmother, 76, died suddenly. His mother, apparently a suicide, was found one morning with chloroform-soaked cotton over her face. Finally, one night three years ago, his father, in a drunken stupor, was burned to death when the Los Angeles house caught fire...
...Angeles jury found Courtney Rogers guilty of murder. But while he waited for death, the California Supreme Court announced it was legally uncertain whether Courtney's mother & father might not have died, respectively, by self-inflicted chloroform and accident. Exhumed, grandmother's body contained no arsenic. Last week, at Courtney's third trial, the judge threw the case out of court. Courtney Rogers had repudiated all his admissions: "I told as many lies as I could to make them think I was insane...
...giving first aid. Three Chinese casualties were standing by the wall of the operating room waiting for nurses and Friends to carry away the one who had been operated on so they could climb up on the vacant operating table and sigh thankfully as Bawk or Esther began to chloroform them. My body was covered with blood...