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...time the sled hit the water brakes, wrote Stapp about one of his recent rides, "vision became a shimmering salmon-colored field with no images ... It felt as though my eyes were being pulled out of my head, about the same sort of sensation as when a molar is yanked . . . When the sled stopped, the salmon-colored blur was still there ... I lifted my eyelids with my fingers, but I couldn't see a thing. It was as though I was looking directly at the sun through closed eyelids...
...There was intense pain in the eyes, says Stapp dispassionately. "It felt a though my eyes were being pulled out of my head-about the same sort of sensation as when a molar is being yanked an you feel the roots begin to give. I had great difficulty breathing because of the tightness of my chest strap. When the sle stopped, the salmon blur was still there." As a medical man, Stapp knew that th Gs had pulled his eyeballs outward an "impinged them against the eyelids." He did not know how far they had pulled, or whether the retinas...
Only Human. In St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, as afraid as the next man of going to a dentist's office, Dentist Ptolemy Corbiere sat down and, guided by a hand-mirror, extracted his own upper rear molar...
...that dentists are plotting more anesthesia on us neurotic humans [TIME, March 28]. Horrifying to observe such regression in an otherwise progressive profession-and just when obstetricians have been teaching us mothers the evil of our abnormal ways in desiring anesthesia with childbirth! Surely we will love the old molar more if, while it is being yanked out, we are permitted to grit the others in full consciousness, and then perhaps hold it tenderly in our palm. Come now, let us have Dentistry Without Fear-and, TIME, please don't soften us with that old propaganda that pain really...
...veteran with an aching molar may have to wait four months to get free care, or his dentist will have to wait four months for his pay. Typical question : If the veteran has one front tooth with a cavity that developed while he was in service, and this affected the tooth next to it, which can be filled? Answer: Only the tooth with the service-connected cavity. But if both teeth have to be pulled out, the VA will pay for a bridge for both gaps...