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...Also in Philadelphia last week met six groups of anesthetists. Their gravest concern was a new anesthetic called divinyl ether. Professor Isidor Schwaner Ravdin of the University of Pennsylvania, who used divinyl ether in 2,675 operations, praised this highly volatile liquid because a few deep inhalations cause complete unconsciousness. Recovery is very rapid. Nausea or vomiting rarely occurs after divinyl operations. It is less poisonous than chloroform, more poisonous than ether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgeons' College | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...Liquid content, in these enlightened days, is no longer regulated by statute, but only by the unbreakable laws of hydraulic pressure, and cause and effect. With these physical phenomena in mind, local savants have been recently devoting their time to solving the problem posed by the presence of so many people at the gatherings in the Yard amphitheater, gatherings many of which follow immediately upon the smatutinal cup of coffee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Savants Ignore Principles of Flood Relief While Tragedy Impends | 9/17/1936 | See Source »

Benzedrine is a synthetic colorless liquid, chemically related to adrenalin. Smith, Kline & French Laboratories of Philadelphia have a patent on the drug until 1950. Benzedrine is ordinarily used as a nasal spray or inhalant to reduce congestion due to head colds, sinusitis, rhinitis, hay fever, asthma. Larger doses of the drug cause restlessness, sleeplessness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Trial & Error | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...Wales, were next burned at Belfast amid Irish jeers. Finally through Belfast streets rumbled a float on which an effigy of Irish Free State President Eamon de Valera dressed as a nurse attended a baby carriage in which sat an effigy of King Edward sucking a bottle of liquid labeled "DOPE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown: Aug. 10, 1936 | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

When his bull elephant grows restless, begins to ooze oily liquid from the porous spot in its forehead, the mahout in the teakwood forests of Upper Burma chains his big beast of burden securely, leaves it strictly alone until the condition is past. This periodic frenzy, probably sexual, is called "must" (from the Hindu mast, meaning ruttish, intoxicated). Because of it. bull elephants are extremely rare in U. S. circuses and zoos. Some months ago Director Edmund Heller of San Francisco's Fleishhacker Zoo decided to try breeding his four cow elephants, began looking for a mate. He wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Must & Murder | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

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