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No matter how real the pain, the reaction to it varies vastly with the individual and the circumstances. Boston's Dr. Henry K. Beecher noted in World War II that only one-fourth of the soldiers seriously wounded in battle complained of pain (their wounds meant the end of...
Some advances on the frontiers of medicine as reported last week to the A.M.A.: ¶Anesthesia for major surgery is usually a complex procedure to kill pain, induce sleep and relax the muscles, and needs half a dozen chemicals. From the Brooklyn VA Hospital, Drs. Henry I. Lipson and Henry...
But slapstick is a theatrical narcotic, and both Wilder and director Tyrone Guthric almost inhale too much of the stuff. Having written the play expressly for Ruth Gordon in the role of Mrs. Levi, the author has given her too many lines that depend on dialect alone. Guthrie has compounded...
Hortense Ford arrived at a Ventura (Calif.) reform school when she was 19; her illegitimate daughter Barbara made it when she was 14. After two years in the reformatory, Barbara married, became a "sea gull," i.e., a fleet follower in San Diego. She was convicted of perjury, prostitution, lewd conduct...
¶ Typical responses to amphetamine, a stimulant and not a narcotic, are alertness and a sense of wellbeing; to pentobarbital, well-being and drowsiness; to the narcotics heroin and morphine, disquiet and drowsiness. Anybody who reacts atypically to one, e.g., feeling sleepy after amphetamine, is likely to have unusual reactions...