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Word: icebag (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctors and their followers progressed to using icebag anesthesia on blood clots, burns, various injuries. The results they got were "phenomenal." In one case, a patient's hand, which had been crushed to a pulp and would ordinarily have been amputated, was miraculously restored. In another case, a patient's finger was almost cut off. Packed in ice until the doctor got there, the finger was successfully sewed back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Safe on Ice | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

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