Word: chloroform
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This was before germs, antisepsis and chloroform anesthesia were discovered. Doctors were often obliged to steal or buy corpses for anatomical studies. They had very little precise knowledge of what goes on within the body of the living man. Organic chemistry was just blossoming out of alchemy, with only 49 of the 92 elements recognized. Surgeon Beaumont had little beyond simple Nature to help him treat Alexis St. Martin...
...guard peered through the gate. A dangerous Nazi the prisoner certainly was. The guard recognized him as Siegfried Kustatcher, who had served a prison sentence only a few weeks before. He opened the gates. The fake Heimwehr men suddenly dropped the handcuffs, snapped out blackjacks and sponges soaked in chloroform. Chief Warden Ludwig rushed down to help, was overpowered too. At pistol-point they snatched the keys from the warden's terrified wife, rushed Leader Hofer to a waiting automobile. In ten minutes every frontier post was warned. Shrewdly the Nazis did not make for the heavily-guarded Bavarian...
...Laboring mothers should not plead with their doctors for a completely painless delivery. As yet there is no perfectly safe way to effect that. Chloroform, ether, nitrous oxide (laughing gas) can be used effectively for an hour or two, seldom longer. Pain is caused by uterine contractions to expel the baby. Anesthetics and narcotics inhibit those contractions, also affect the baby's respiration. ''Twilight sleep," which made mothers forget their sufferings by means of doses of morphine and scopolamine, is now generally discredited...
...Your people are not happy enough to live without alcohol. When a person goes through a great ordeal he takes a great deal of chloroform that makes him forget all about what is going on. Alcohol acts the same way upon an unhappy people- makes them forget their unhappiness...
...caustic which Dr. Cutler prefers is a "modified Carnoy's solution": absolute alcohol 6 c. c., chloroform 3 c. c., glacial acetic acid i c.c., ferric chloride 1 gm. The solution practically "tans" tissues it comes in contact with. Dr. Cutler uses it to toughen cysts which he must scoop out of brains...