Word: etherization
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...effort to calibrate it ever more accurately, Dr. Michelson has devoted 52 years. In its pursuit he has literally turned the light on light, made it disclose new truths: about stars so huge that the earth and its whole orbit could be dropped in them and lost; about the ether; about the mysterious place in the universe toward which the sun, all the planets are hurrying at terrific speed...
While the California scientists were planning another cosmological talk with Dr. Einstein, they received contradictory news which complicated their Universe for them. Dr. Einstein built his Relativity theory upon the negative results of the famed Michelson-Morley ether-drift experiment performed in 1887. Last week two men announced that they had rechecked that experiment, obtained opposite results. One man, Dr. Dayton Clarence Miller, had made 175,000 more readings of his interferometer at Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland. His results showed a definite ether drift, which he will expound in April at the meeting of the National Academy...
...Angeles hospital last week a Mrs. Maude Branton, 43, clergyman's wife, inhaled ether, oxygen and nitrous oxide as anesthetic for an operation. This mixture of gases is explosive. In Mrs. Branton's case something ignited the mixture in her lungs. The mixture exploded, the lungs burst, Mrs. Branton died. A coroner's jury decided that no one was to blame...
...form of anesthesia, free from all dangers, has not yet been discovered." And: "The chief hazards . . . that have to be compared are fatal failure of respiration, syncope [serious fainting] and collapse, postanesthetic necrosis [decay] of the liver (chiefly from chloroform), post-operative pneumonia, persistent hiccup, flares and fires from ether, the bursting of cylinders containing any gas under pressure, and particularly cylinders of oxygen or nitrous oxide if the valve is oiled, and, finally, explosions in anesthetic apparatus in which ethylene or ether is administered...
Causes of Explosions, which surgeons guard against during operations under ether or ethylene anesthesia, include sparks and intense heat from lighting, radiation, or motor equipment; cauteries; static electricity caused by shuffling feet, rubbed hair, dry woolen blankets, frictioned rubber tubing...