Word: novocain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drink a mixture of a searing hot sauce compounded with pepper and garlic and ordered to smoke a handful of cigars, inhaling every puff. After he vomited, the "hackers" went to work, whacked him 50 times with an inch-thick paddle. "Some of the kids give themselves shots of Novocain," Chuck reported, "but that just hurts worse when it wears...
Even the idea for John Paul Jones came from Dr. Boland. He got it last spring, as a commander in the Naval Dental Corps, when he visited the crypt at Annapolis where Jones is buried. He worked out the tunes between extractions and impactions and while "waiting for the Novocain to work." Several of Old Grad Boland's songs have sold well (The Gypsy in My Soul and I Live the Life I Love in 1937; Stop Beatin' 'Round the Mulberry Bush in 1939). He is considering several offers to turn Tin Pan Alley pro, but dentistry...
...method he called anoci-association (meaning: not to injure consciousness). A Crile patient usually received a sedative injection (morphine and scopolamine) an hour before operation to eradicate fear. To prevent injured tissues from communicating with the brain, nerves leading from the operative field were blocked off by novocain anesthesia. As the operation progressed, more novocain at the site of operation preceded every move. To lessen discomfort after operation, Dr. Crile gave injections of quinine and urea hydrochloride. His interest in shock led him to experiment with adrenalin (a hormone which produces the symptoms of shock) and blood transfusions for relief...