Word: intramuscularly
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Best procedure when treating a victim of "intractable" pain, said Dr. Rutherford, is to send him to a hospital for a week. During the first half of the week he is given daily intramuscular venom injections of two or three cubic centimeters each. During this "saturation" period his pain is as agonizing as ever, and he usually needs heavy doses of morphine or other opiates. But within four or five days the venom seeps through his system and anesthetizes pain areas of his higher nerve centres. Gradually his pain dies away. After the first saturation period, the physician, by cautious...
...stubborn patients, however, were given a further course of injections. Along with pure vitamin B 1 they received large intramuscular doses of concentrated liver extract. All of them were soon relieved...
...four years 35 physicians all over the U. S. have given 250 patients intramuscular injections of Arthranol. Over 90% of the patients were relieved. Many patients with the less severe hypertrophic arthritis were completely cured, and those with the incurable atrophic form attained greater freedom of movement. Said Dr. Stern: "First benefits in acute stages are evident in from 24 to 72 hours. No ill effect has been noted...