Word: etherization
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...current applications of the new discovery prove successful, doctors will be able to administer ether into the blood stream intravenously, Dr. M. Judah Folkman, instructor in Surgery at the Harvard Medical School and discoverer of the new process, said yesterday. Presently, doctors must administer ether to patients orally...
...addition to use in operations the new anesthetic technique will have important effects on other illnesses. Anesthetics could more easily be used on patients suffering from lung diseases. The new technique would enable these people whose diseased lungs are injured by inhaling ether to undergo pro-longed previously forbidden anesthesia...
...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...