Word: opium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pain an inevitable part of childbirth? One grin-&-bear-it school of doctors says it is.* But the search for ways to relieve the mother's pain is as old as civilization. The ancient Egyptians tried herbs, the Chinese opium. Neither worked very well. The coming of anesthesia more than a century ago did not help much. General anesthetics such as chloroform and ether made the patient unconscious, and thus unable to cooperate with the doctor and with nature's attempts to push out the baby...
...Jansen put them in his opium pipe . . . and remember that we will hear a lot more from them in the future...
Long after he had settled in Philadelphia, his fellow townsmen regarded Stephen Girard as a very strange fellow. He was a Frenchman-a squat, swarthy ex-sea captain with one blind eye, an insane wife, and a taste for gold lace and velvet breeches. He smuggled opium and traded in rum, but he named his ships after the Philosophes. Though he became one of the richest Americans of his time, he boasted that he could still eat on 20? a day. Philadelphians called him, among other things, a miser...
Just before dawn in Peiping's model prison a policewoman called to Yoshiko Kawashima through the barred opening of her cell. But Yoshiko slept soundly. Her cell mate, Mrs. Li, a middle-aged opium smuggler, shook her. Said Mrs. Li in great compassion: "Get up, foolish-elder brother...
...Ends of the Earth. T-Man Dick Powell, hot after a Japanese opium ring (TIME, March...