Word: chloroforming
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...along without ever admitting it to himself. For his conscience is always clear: "I know what some would think; they would think my behaviour peculiar. I know most men would only have thought of taking an unfair advantage and there were plenty of opportunities. I could have used the chloroform, done what I liked. But I am not that sort, definitely not that sort at all. What she never understood was that with me it was having. Having her was enough. Nothing needed doing. I just wanted to have her, and safe at last...
Halothane (C2HBrCIF3) is chemically kin to chloroform, which has long been accused of causing occasional liver damage. First synthesized in England in 1951, halothane was cautiously tested and carefully evaluated. By the time it was released for U.S. distribution by Ayerst Laboratories under the trade name Fluothane, it had been adjudged harmless in 10,000 human cases...
Multiple Medicines. Since the swashbuckling practitioners of a century ago popularized ether, chloroform and nitrous oxide ("laughing gas") in surgery and dentistry, the anesthetic art has become vastly more complex and has developed into a new specialty. Only an M.D. can be an anesthesiologist. Except in emergencies, he studies the patient in advance of operations, to decide what anesthetics will be safest and most effective...
...Clyde," says Bandleader Turk Murphy, "is the Lawrence Welk of Dixieland jazz. His music breathes happiness and chloroform...
Cards of Identity. Author Cheever's plots carry his punch in the way that cotton carries chloroform. His stories are saturated with the sights and sounds of suburban life. His characters show the identity cards of the hard-pressed middle class: unpaid bills, buttonless shirts, little scraps of paper that read, "oleomargarine, frozen spinach, Kleenex, dog biscuit . . ." They believe they are "outside the realm of God's infinite mercy," and yet their prayer is heartfelt: "Preserve me from word games and adulterers, from basset hounds and swimming pools and frozen canapes and Bloody Marys...