Word: etheric
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...1850s spiritualism swept the U.S. eastern seaboard like a fog. It seemed, said one flabbergasted convert, "as though the spirit world, having at last hit upon a means of communicating with ours, could not get enough of it." Mediums sprang to fame, set the ether vibrating with spirit music, spirit painting, voices, lights, icy currents of air, luminous faces, words written in fire. "A whole mine of mysticism hatching beneath the skepticism of the 19th Century," said the shrewd French Diarists Edmond and Jules Goncourt...
...Institute for Medical Research, Princeton, who raised a group of "axenic" Mexican platyfish (Platypoecttus maculatus) from birth to full maturity.* The platyfish, not an egg-layer, bears live young. To make sure that their baby platyfish got a germ-free start, the researchers bathed the mother fish in alcohol, ether and iodine, made a Caesarean incision and gently sucked the young out of the germless oviduct with a rubber bulb, taking care not to rupture the germ-packed intestines. Then they popped the baby fishes into warm, sterile water, later transferred them to sterile, stoppered milk bottles...
...there was sustained last week one of Brazil's most cherished institutions-the Rio de Janeiro Carnival. There were no garish street decorations, no fancy-dress granfino (high society) parties in the Casinos. Priorities had hit the manufacture of langa (perfumed ether) with which hilarious Cariocas love to squirt each other. There were no tourists to goggle. The Chamber of Commerce, in a grim wartime mood, had washed its hands of the whole thing. But that was not enough to stop the Cariocas...
Tooth & Claw. In Newton, Mass., six-month-old C. Melvin Grindrod swallowed a bell, bit the doctor's fingers with his new teeth, maintained the bite until given a whiff of ether...
When special cases in Baltimore hospitals began getting propethylene, its advantages became clear:1) though it has an etherish smell, patients rarely fight when going under; 2) it is safer to give than ether (less need be given; concentration is low in a patient's blood); 3) in warm weather (and climates) the effect lasts longer than ether's; 4) it does not evaporate as readily as ether, which makes it advantageous for use in the tropics...