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Similarly with the ether highways of the radio world: the wave-bands assigned to different stations must be spaced across the radio spectrum to avoid overlapping, garbling of messages. Reducing the "width" of the wave-bands would make "more room...
...that the greatest hope for the future of dentistry lies in research. In this field, the dental profession, young as it is, is justly proud of its achievements particularly in the war against suffering. The pioneer work of Dr. Horace Wells with nitrous oxide, and Dr. William Morton with ether, both endeavoring to control pain in dental operations, led to the development of surgical anaesthesia...
...simply asserting a fundamental principle of American government and if the Commission gets in the way, that's the Commission's fault, not ours. The police power, reserved to the States, is not subject to any limitation. If the Radio Commission believes it more important that the ether be filled with jazz music and advertisements than that criminals be apprehended and punished, that's the Commission's privilege. We don't think that way and we're not going to be controlled by anyone who does...
Feverish rats and rabbits scamper about the Research Laboratory of General Electric Co.. Schenectady. N. Y. No common fever but one artificially induced, by short-length ether waves, makes them suffer...
...Easier Motherhood" describes synergistic anaesthesia by the Gwathmey technic. Known to medicine for about a decade, it consists of the specialized administration of magnesium sulphate, ether and morphine combined in a dose suited to the individual. Extensively and very successfully used in Manhattan hospitals, it has, says Author Todd, "'converted crying rooms into chambers of silence." Yet so little is it appreciated among obstetricians generally that in the last five years it is estimated only two-tenths of one per-'cent of U. S. mothers have experienced its benefits...