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...gruesome climax of Men in White: a hysterectomy following an infective abortion. Dr. Ferguson does the operating. Dr. Hochberg (Jean Her-sholt), the surgeon who runs St. George's hospital and considers Dr. Ferguson his most promising interne, persuades Laura Hudson to watch it. Going under ether, the nurse babbles enough to explain the cause of her predicament. Laura Hudson faints, has to be carried from the operating room. The nurse dies. At the end of Men in White it looks as if some good may come of what has happened...
Month ago Dr. Robert E. Cornish, jet-haired young University of California researcher, killed two fox terriers with ether and nitrogen, brought them back to life (TIME, March 26). One dog lived a comatose life of eight hours, the other five hours. Last fortnight Dr. Cornish killed a third terrier. For dog No. 3, in addition to the oxygen-saturated saline solution, liver extract, adrenalin, canine blood and rocking board with which he resurrected Nos. 1 & 2, Dr. Cornish had a new help-gum-arabic, to keep the heart from overworking. Revived, the third dog clung to life day after...
Stretched on an operating table in Baltimore's Sinai Hospital one morning last week lay a patient waiting to have his prostate gland removed. Instead of clapping an ether cone over his face, the anesthetist slipped a hypodermic needle into a vein in the crook of his elbow. In 20 seconds he lay unconscious, utterly limp. Six minutes after the operation was over he hoisted himself off the table, drank a glass of water, called for a "good big breakfast...
...anesthetic which thus delighted Baltimore surgeons with its speed and freedom from ether's nauseating aftereffect is called evipan. Invented in Germany, it belongs to the barbituric acid group. Because other intravenous anesthetics have proved difficult to control its U. S. manufacturer, a Manhattan chemical company, is having it thoroughly tested before placing it on the market...
...harsh brilliance of overhead lamps, a fox terrier listed in the laboratory records as Lazarus II lay last week in a gloomy old building on the University of California's campus. White-clad figures moved in & out of the glare, watching the creature they had asphyxiated with ether and nitrogen. Lazarus II's heart stopped beating and he no longer breathed. His shoe-button eyes were glazed. Lazarus II was dead...