Word: hypnoanesthesia
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...physicians at an international meeting of anesthesiologists in Manhattan. Only the week before, he had performed a similar service for a patient in Chicago, Mrs. Roberta Westwood, with an enlarged and overactive thyroid. After four weeks of preparation and a day-before dress rehearsal, Dr. Kroger carried out his hypnoanesthesia at Edgewater Hospital, and most of the patient's thyroid was cut out in an hour-long operation. Mrs. Westwood wakened as directed, sat up on the operating table, asked for a drink of water and walked to the wheel chair to go back to her room. Said...
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