Word: etherizing
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...Also in Philadelphia last week met six groups of anesthetists. Their gravest concern was a new anesthetic called divinyl ether. Professor Isidor Schwaner Ravdin of the University of Pennsylvania, who used divinyl ether in 2,675 operations, praised this highly volatile liquid because a few deep inhalations cause complete unconsciousness. Recovery is very rapid. Nausea or vomiting rarely occurs after divinyl operations. It is less poisonous than chloroform, more poisonous than ether...
...universal protection of candidates, the rebroadcast of a man's remarks days or years later should not be permitted to go out on the ether. Such mechanical repetition deprives him of the opportunity to change his mind or adapt his arguments to the moment, or in any way to clarify his position. The Lincoln-Douglas debates, for instance, could not have taken place had Douglas been a dummy or a red scal record. Furthermore, at a time when many political voices are household property, the unsophisticated listener may have difficulty deciding which is the real speaker and which the ghost...
Apparent during this show was the fact that veterinarians are bountiful users of anesthetics. For local operations cocaine and novocaine are favorites. For major jobs, ether and gas together are frequently used. So is nembutal, which numbs without producing unconsciousness. Instruments, cotton and bandages are thoroughly sterilized, despite the fact that animals are less prone to infection than humans. Veterinary surgeons wear white caps and gowns while operating, occasionally masks and rubber gloves...
...lose their tone, permit the limbs to dangle. The diagnostic problem is to discover and treat the original cause of the neural inflammation. This may be some toxin absorbed by the system, such as poisonous metals (lead, arsenic, bismuth, mercury) or carbon compounds (alcohol, Jamaica ginger, carbon monoxide, ether). Toxins may be generated, among other ailments, by childbed fever or diabetes. Neuritis may be the result of infections like diphtheria, typhoid, scarlet fever, measles, rheumatism, mumps, gonorrhea, smallpox, pneumonia, blood poisoning, malaria, tuberculosis, syphilis. It may be due to chronic anemia, senility, cancer, arterial disease...
...Morris Edward] Davis thinks there may be a forceps case in the birth room." Dr. DeLee reads the mother's hospital chart, looks up, announces, "Forceps may really be needed. . . . Gentlemen, this is a forceps case. Let us proceed to the amphitheatre." There a woman, asleep under ether, is ready for delivery. Dr. DeLee surveys her, murmurs, "Hm! Looks like a nine-pounder." Swiftly he nicks the woman's vulva so that it will spread and prevent the birth from tearing the perineum. Deftly he inserts the forceps, engages the baby's head, pulls with...