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...Frazier, Director of the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, an institution where operations are performed which command medical attention and newspaper notoriety. For five hours and forty minutes, Troutman was under the knife; six surgeons and physicians, with their assistants, were in action. The patient was so weak that ether could not be administered; a local anesthetic dulled the pain but not the mind of Troutman, who, throughout the ordeal, exchanged quips and jokes with the surgeons. Once, he laughed. Beyond all expectation, this feat of surgery was successful. Again the doctors of the University Hospital have arrested the attention...
...combinations. It explains the disintegrative processes which break up compounds by overcoming cohesion. The velocity of the Rex atom varies, and at various rates determines its identity as light, heat or electricity. Electromagnetic (radio) waves, color and light are identical in nature, though not in degree. There is no ether. Gravity is not a mass attraction, but a phenomenon resulting from the impact of the repellent force on the earth's surface. Page holds that celestial bodies are normally circular rather than elliptical, as Kepler and his successors have taught...
...Ether-it isn't as kind to men as to vegetables...
...weeks since successful experiments in acceleration of plant growth by artificial light were announced (TIME, Nov. 5). Now we have the next step: etherizing them to make them grow. Prof. David Lumsden, of the Federal Horticultural Board, found out that if a "shot of dope" is given to a plant either by inhalation or a hypodermic needle, exactly the,contrary of the effect of ether on human beings is produced. Instead of putting plants to sleep it can produce overnight perceptible fresh green shoots from rose bushes dug out of frozen ground in midwinter. Kept indoors on the ether diet...
...practice in Connecticut from the Eclectic Medical Examining Board of that state, was being sought for arrest for manslaughter. He had previously confessed his story to Governor Templeton and other Connecticut officials. Sutcliffe bought a practice on installments in Unionville, Conn. He was responsible for the death by etherization of Albert C. Hoody, mechanic, who was brought to him for emergency treatment when his finger was crushed in a stamping machine. Sutcliffe crudely amputated the finger, instructing a friend of Hoody's to anesthetize him by pouring three cans of ether on a gauze mask. Hoody died from...