Word: novocain
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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...
...most delicate and stubborn surgical problems is the relief of pain in childbirth. Injection of synthetic, cocaine-like drugs, such as novocain and procaine, into the canal of the spinal cord is objectionable because such injections act on the cord and brain, interfere with the heart. Anesthetics such as ether and nitrous oxide (laughing gas) are harmful because they cause a deficiency of oxygen in the blood streams of mother and child...
...Carl Roller, an Austrian who now practises ophthalmology in Manhattan, discovered in 1884 that cocaine deadens sensation long enough for a minor operation, doctors worried because i) cocaine may start a bad narcotic habit, 2) cause a dangerous shock to the system. Best substitute has been procaine (usually called novocain), synthesized in 1905 by a German. But procaine causes capillaries to expand. Thus, 1) an incision may bleed dangerously, or 2) the drug quickly diffuses into the blood stream and loses its local anesthetic effect. To overcome the bad features of cocaine and procaine, anesthetists use them in conjunction with...
Medical men in Germany would of course not think of using thymol as a substitute for novocain, although the public is using it widely to obtain temporary relief, when the dentist cannot be reached, particularly in rural districts. Naturally the dentists know this, but frown upon the practise because people will not see the dentist as often, as long as they have a harmless and convenient "pain killer" in their medicine chests...