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First, Dr. Southam used Novocain to anesthetize an area about three inches across. Into the middle of the area he stuck a tattoo needle that left a blue dot for a reference mark. Out of a vial and into a hypodermic syringe he drew up a cubic centimeter of pink fluid-mostly water, but containing millions of cancer cells from human victims of the disease. The cells had been grown for years in test tubes by Dr. Alice E. Moore, Sloan-Kettering tissue-culture specialist, who had carried the cells to Columbus herself -in her handbag...
Arthritis Due to Injury. Caused either by a single severe injury or by endless repetition of minor, unnoticed injuries. Commonest examples: tennis elbow and housemaid's knee. Treatment: draining away water on the knee, heat, massage, X rays, Novocain injections and, in severe cases, surgery. Now usually curable...
...Novocain, drills, and fillings being what they are, the Dental Clinic is never a very pleasant place to spend one's time. For the student who is driven there by a toothache or some other dental crisis, however, the Clinic can become downright infuriating. For no matter how painful his ailment, he is usually told to come back in two or three weeks when the doctors will be able to give him an appointment...
...Over the years he submitted to 50 or more operations. Every few weeks, when he saw a fellow Harvard alumnus, Surgeon Ernest M. Daland, he would point to a bleeding wart and say: "That one's degenerating a little . . . Won't stop bleeding. Give me a little Novocain and take it off." The wound would be grafted with skin from Dr. Brown's belly or leg, which soon began to look like patchwork quilts...
...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...