Word: chloroforming
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...doctor, who calls himself "short and ugly," settled down next day to mastering the hospital and the people around it. He and Tiny scrubbed the hospital. He already knew Karen and a little Burmese and started learning other local dialects, while Tiny learned to deliver babies and pour chloroform. There was little money, often a shortage of drugs, always a shortage of trained personnel. The only surgical instruments Dr. Seagrave had were a wastebasketful he had begged at Johns Hopkins when he saw a nurse about to throw them away. His practice covered hundreds of miles...
Anesthetics, Old Style. Anesthesia has progressed from chloroform to cyclopropane and local and spinal anesthesia. Dr. Erdmann remembers giving anesthetics for the afternoon clinics during his internship when "most of our patients were truck drivers, wharfmen and the like with strong whiskey, gin or tobacco breaths. We would clap a bootleg cone or a lamp-chimney cone over the face and push the anesthesia until the patient was deep blue...
...worst sergeant in the battery. No kidding, though, our platoon makes all the others look crummy." Private Bushemi, photographer, hazes a mess sergeant: "You know the one thing that's missing from this meal-the one thing that would make it perfect?" "Ice cream?" asks the sergeant. "Chloroform," says Bushemi...
...well tell you the whole story." He had killed his mother too, he said. Why? He had had a bitter childhood, he wanted her money, his father mistreated her and he wanted to put her out of her pain. After she fell asleep one night, Courtney had dropped chloroform on a wad of cotton which he held over her nose until she died. Said Courtney calmly: "I had an Oedipus complex...
When their only son was born on a winter day in 1882, an overdose of chloroform almost cost Sara Roosevelt her life. The nurse could not believe that the boy would live. They called him Franklin Delano Roosevelt, after his great-uncle who had married a Miss Astor. His mother remembered that he was plump and pink...