Word: pain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thymol solution will give temporary relief from dental pain if the tooth is hollow and permits the solution to penetrate deeply...
...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...
...publicity campaign began two months ago when Columbia University announced that Dr. Hartman had invented a tooth desensitizer which prevented pain while the dentist drilled to prepare a cavity for a filling. On grounds that Columbia's University Patents, Inc. wanted to patent the desensitizer Dr. Hartman, alarmed by what might happen to his professional reputation, obdurately refused to answer a multitude of pleas which dentists made to him for his preparation and method (TIME...
...scouts for dental supply houses. Them he vexed by what they considered a needless description of a tooth's construction: hard, nerveless enamel over dentine over pulp. The pulp contains the tooth's nerve. The dentine contains a fatty substance called lipoid which Dr. Hartman believes transmits pain to the nerve. By temporarily disconnecting the lipoid from the nerve he believes that he interrupts transmission of pain during drilling in the dentine. Following this theory, he devised a solution which when applied to the dentine did not deaden the nerve as in the case of novocain but contracted...
These incidents footed up to a grand total of political dissatisfaction with the radio and its division of time, gave radio men a great pain. Pundit Walter Lippmann came to their defense, declaring, "Even if [broadcasting companies] are just they will not seem to be just. They will be accused of being unjust. They will never convince every one that they are just. The pie is too small and the boys are too hungry...