Word: ethereally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talking like different human beings, and end it sounding like male counter-parts of the Three Little Maids. Too often an actor enters and sounds as if he has been tuning up to the players on stage. When some one does bring on a new tone, it blows the ether out of Etherege, and makes even the topical references and most elusive wit funny. Mr. Senelick (they've got no first names in the Genuine Antique program) breezes as Sir Foplin Flutter, looking like the Cowardly Lion, bantering in a voice that plummets and soars like Cyril Ritchard...
...made his discovery accidently while cleaning silicone tubing he was using in a cancer experiment. He found the tubing still smelled of ether after it had been washed and dried...
Further tests led Folkman to discover that ether could pass through silicone at a constant and measurable rate...
From these preliminary experiments, he devised a method of administering anesthesia by attaching a coil to two major blood vessels of dogs. Blood would flow through the coil and past a silicone tube filled with ether...
Because the rate the ether passes through the silicone tubing can be measured, the size of the anesthetic dose can be controlled by the thickness of the tubing used. For use on human beings, the coil would probably be attached to the patients wrist...