Word: etherization
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...Under ether, the sheriff's chest was opened, and the surgeons clamped off the aorta on both sides of the enlargement. As soon as they removed enough of the mass to give themselves working space, they cut the aorta at each side. Into the gap they stitched a 6-in. piece of aorta taken from another patient, a Negro who had died of injuries a few days earlier. It took 45 minutes from the time the clamps shut off the blood flow to the lower organs for the surgeons to stitch the graft in place and remove the clamps...
...Tested on humans for the first time, trifluoroethyl vinyl ether turned out to be a promising new anesthetic. Product of 15 years research by Dr. John C. Krantz Jr., Johns Hopkins pharmacology professor, the fluorinated ether puts a patient to sleep in 27 seconds (a standard ether takes up to five minutes), has an agreeable odor and a high boiling point that should make it useful in warm climates. Biggest advantage: not readily combustible, it will reduce the danger of disastrous operating-room explosions...
Hypnosis has been a hard-luck kid among medical techniques. A century ago, it was just beginning to win acceptance as a painkiller when ether anesthesia was discovered and hypnosis was discarded. It was making a comeback 60 years ago when Freud hit upon the idea of psychoanalysis, and the experts again lost interest in hypnosis. Now, the third time around, it is once more winning the support of reputable men in both the physical and psychic areas of medicine. To help put hypnosis over the top for good, eleven doctors have assembled the first comprehensive textbook in the field...
Mallinckrodt helped develop the atomic bomb and has pioneered in the purification of ether. He was an overseer from 1927 to 1933 and was also vice-president of the Alumni Association...
...windpipe. The blood was drained off, and a mask was fitted to give artificial respiration. But little more than two hours later, Father Cummings was dead, the victim of the kind of accident every hospital dreads. Explosions of anesthetic gases (in this case, a mixture of nitrous oxide, ether and cyclopropane) happen about once in 75,000 operations, and are almost certain to cause serious injury to the patient, if not death...