Word: osserman
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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Another notable office utility first reported last week was an obtundent (desensitizing) paste developed by Manhattan's Drs. Harold Aaron Osserman and Abraham Taub. Like Manhattan's Dr. Leroy L. Hartman's painkiller which attracted attention last year (TIME, Feb. 3, 1936), the new obtundent is supposed to deaden the fibrils of nerves which are supposed to run through the dentine of teeth. Critics of the Hartman and Osser-man-Taub anesthetics pointed out that, 1) it is doubtful that dentine contains nerve tissues, 2) the chemicals do not always work, 3) such news makes patients expect...