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Word: chloroforming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just finished Jerry," whispered Louis Greenfield hoarsely to the doorman of his Bronx apartment house one morning last week. "I gave my little boy chloroform. . . . He's better off dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Better Off Dead | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...ending May 31, 1938) the company netted $3,895,269, approximate average for 1934-38. Never before in a merger, Dow has a good reason for this one: it wants a West Coast branch,* and Great Western offers that as well as exclusive rights to cheap processes of making chloroform, carbon tetrachloride, hexachloroethane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Corporate Catalysis | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

...nerve-blocking procedure in which alcohol, acetone and chloroform are used in addition to cobra and other venoms, although serving to alter transmission of impulses from and to the diseased muscles or painful areas and that way accomplishing the desired recovery of the part affected, has no paralyzing effect whatsoever either upon the nerves, muscles or parts. The treatment as applied serves to heal the diseased nerves and the patient is confined to the hospital bed only for a few hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 8, 1938 | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...pain-contorted Brooklyn man was a patient of Anesthetist Marius Bohdan Greene. Taking him into an aseptic operating room, he gently rolled the patient on his side, rolled up the bed shirt, injected into the spine a mixture of alcohol chloroform, acetone and cobra venom. The tortured man unbent. Faint color flooded his face. He opened his eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Venom for Pain | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

...doctor was a great comfort to me when she died. Whenever my courage faltered, or got tired of holding the chloroform bottle, he was always there with a word of encouragement or advice, always helpful, always a perfect gentleman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Your Uncle Smugly Says | 10/26/1937 | See Source »

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