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Intense Perception. If grass is the staple of hippiedom, then lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) is its caviar. Derived from a parasitic fungus that grows on rye, lysergic acid is mixed with volatile diethylamine (used in vulcanizing rubber), then frozen; the resulting LSD is extracted by using chloroform or benzine for fractional distillation, or else by means of a simple vacuum evaporator. Now available in pill form, or else as a soluble crystalline powder (the liquid-dunked sugar cubes of yesteryear are out), LSD produces an eight-to-twelve-hour trip highlighted by profound changes in thought, mood and activity. Colors...
...other chemicals plus a solution of diethylamine (a volatile liquid used in processes like vulcanizing). The two batches, cooled to freezing and stirred together, result in a solution that contains LSD. The trick is to extract the LSD from the solution. This can be done with the help of chloroform, benzine, a vacuum evaporator or steam bath, and a glass gadget known as a chromatographic column (available in any chemistry supply shop...
...President of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, I would like to compliment you on an excellent, informative story on anesthesiology [Nov. 5]. One statement requires clarification: "Nearly gone is the nurse-technician who dates back to the early days of ether and chloroform." This implies that nurse anesthetists today only rarely administer anesthetics. The reverse is true. About 40% of the anesthesias are given by members of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, about 45% by certified registered nurse anesthetists, and the remainder by other physicians, nurses or technicians...
Today that person is often a physician. Nearly gone is the nurse-technician who dates back to the early days of ether and chloroform and whose only function was to render the patient in sensible to pain. Today's anesthesiologist is responsible for the whole man-his breathing and his circulation. In the past dozen years, the growth of knowledge and skills among anesthesia specialists has been greater than in practically any other branch of medicine. When the American Society of Anesthesiologists held its annual meeting in Denver last week, the trade talk of members made it clear that...
...Director William Wyler daubs it somewhat irrelevantly in full color. Yet his sure professionalism makes every important scene insidiously effective. The sense of stifling confinement is established at the outset when Clegg, in a van, stalks his victim toward a narrow byway where he can still her screams with chloroform. Wyler coolly, almost perversely, manipulates audience sympathy when Clegg tries to fob off an unexpected visitor while water seeps down from an upstairs bathroom where Miranda, lashed and gagged, has made the tub overflow. Later, she attacks her jailer with a shovel one dismal English night, a bid for freedom...