Word: etherizing
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...couples the anguish and irony of the theatre of the absurd with the rowdy frivolousness of vaudeville comedy. Through the story of a young praywright (Him) and a fictional woman (Me)--taking place within an ether-dream experienced by the woman--Cummings writes about himself and everything in his life that he loves, scorns, or wonders about. He has an enormous repertoire of lucid complaints to make--extravagantly phrased complaints about slogans and slang, about psychoanalysis and totalitarianism, about cliches and selfishness and bourgeois conceits...
Time was when a surgeon needed little more for an operation than his kit of instruments and an assistant to drip ether onto the gauze held over the patient's nose and mouth. But since technology has taken over, today's operating theaters contain surgical teams numbering a dozen or more specialists controlling batteries of instruments from heart-lung machines and artificial kidneys to monitoring devices recording every thing from pulse and breathing to brain waves...
...opening at Judson Hall could not have been more auspicious; it was picketed by a rival group calling itself "Fluxus," bearing signs: "Fight the rich man's snob art." Fluxus Leader Henry Flynt favors "compositions" in which a group of people assemble in a dark room while ether is blown through the air vents...
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...