Word: ethereally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When halothane was introduced as an anesthetic in 1956, it seemed nearly perfect. Unlike ether and cyclopropane, it is both nonflammable and nonexplosive-a valuable asset in the modern operating room crammed with electronic gadgetry. It causes patients a minimum of discomfort and, it seemed, could do them no harm at all. It rapidly became widely used. But last week doctors were disturbed by reports in the New England Journal of Medicine that halothane might have caused as many as ten deaths by damaging the patient's liver...
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...
...spent all this morning," he continued, "at a Boston Hospital--Massachusetts General. We were given a lecture in the same theatre where ether was first successfully used during an operation--a solemn, domed room. Tomorrow I'm going back...
...school years were marked by neither great distinction nor great popularity, but by an accident. While whooping it up at a pre-Lenten carnival parade, Quadros was nearly blinded by an exploding bottle of colored ether that Brazilians happily spray around as part of the fun. When the bandage came off, his left eye was canted out about 20°. He brooded for months, turning out tortured poetry about love, Brazil's destiny, himself...
...Board in Recife, 1,200 miles north of Rio, had begun to work on her harem-girl outfit. Last week, shimmying atop her table at the Municipal Theater, she let her husband-a small man in a large tuxedo-have it square in the face with a squirt of ether from a spray bomb. "I went to another party dressed as a Roman girl," she explained in a shout above the din, "but it's hard to do bumps in a toga." From another table top near by, a handsome young matron in a white Carmen Miranda outfit went...