Word: chloroforming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Horace Wells became mentally deranged from self-experimentation, with chloroform, not from "brooding over his failure...
...moderate amount such as is contained in one or two cups of coffee . . . heightens the intellectual functions, increases the efficiency of the muscles and lessens the feeling of fatigue. . . . Although alcohol is frequently used as a stimulant, its real effect is to depress the nervous system . . . like ether or chloroform." Those who like liquor ought to save their drinking till night, when they don't have to work or drive a car. Contrary to popular opinion, "mere mixing of good liquors will not cause intoxication...