Word: chloroformed
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...take the itch out of mosquito bites, Dr. William Albert Hoffman of Puerto Rico's School of Tropical Medicine recommends dabbing the bites with a piece of cotton moistened with a few drops of chloroform. It is supposed to work best if done while the bites are new. Precaution: keep chloroform away from eyes and mouth-it burns...
This campaign for China's relief goes into five separate funds, buys food and clothing for refugees (one U.S. dollar provides necessities for a homeless civilian for three weeks), medical supplies (two U.S. dollars pay for enough chloroform for 80 operations), helps support orphanages, schools to train Chinese leaders, industrial cooperatives...
...paragraphs on the subject, Salter claims the Encyclopedia Britannica makes ten errors. Hypnotism was used in the early 19th Century to produce anesthesia for childbirth and surgery. Just when hypnotists were developing their techniques, and learning a little about the minds which they influenced, the anesthetic uses of chloroform and ether were discovered. So hypnosis, chloroformed, sank into a deep, troubled sleep...
Tinkham: "We're supposed to be neutral." Hull: "We aren't going to let [neutrality] chloroform us into inactivity." Tinkham: "But they were little countries and we have 3,000 miles of sea between us, and a fine Navy." Hull: "I disapprove of your complacency...
...Bulbulian takes pride in matching flesh tints, in decorating his noses with tiny pores and wrinkles. Both noses and ears are glued on with a liquid adhesive made of mastic gum dissolved in chloroform or benzene. Like false teeth, false noses and ears must be doffed at night...