Word: paines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fastest-growing schools of therapy in the U.S. is based on pain-killing as the complete cure for many ills. Its chief method: a comparatively new technique of anesthesia known as "nerve block." Out last week was a new text (Conduction Anesthesia; Lippincott; $15) which held that nerve block is often the cure for sprains & fractures, hiccups, headaches, frostbite, sciatica, neuralgia, a score of other painful disorders...
...Pain Killers. There was more hope for victims of the excruciating pain resulting from angina pectoris and some types of cancer. St. Louis' Surgeon Roland M. Klemme reported a new technique of cutting certain sympathetic nerves in the chest, which stops angina pain without harmful effects; Chicago's Surgeon Jacob P. Greenhill said that a similar operation on abdominal sympathetic nerves often gives permanent relief from pain in cancer of the uterus and other pelvic organs. Also effective: an alcohol injection in the spine...
After Göring's suicide, elaborate theories blossomed. Samples: the poison capsule was hidden in his pipe stem, in a small abdominal incision, in a tooth, in the binding of a book. Dizziest theory of the lot was that Göring faked the gurgling sounds of pain which first attracted the guard to his cell; thereupon the guard summoneJ the doctor, who then administered the poison...
Modern science has developed dozens of new pain killers (novocaine, spinal blocks, cyclopropane, sodium pentothal, etc.), but ether is still safest and best. Enthusiastic centennial speakers noted that anesthesia has brought many boons to man besides easier human surgery: e.g., it made possible a vast amount of painless experimentation on animals. Now, said Dr. Beecher, a "second power" of anesthesia is emerging-the power of probing the human mind. "With anesthetic agents we seem to have a tool for producing and holding at will different levels of consciousness-a tool that promises to be of great help in studies...
...been traveling around the world on a history scholarship. He joined the Chinese in their heroic retreat to the mountains, taking a job in their Ministry of Information. Within a few months he left the Ministry, became a TIME correspondent for the rest of the war in China. Pain without Fear. He suffered dysentery and malaria. Once all his possessions were destroyed by bombs. Occasionally he was called home for a few months, but he was always eager to return to China. One of his returns was made on a Dutch ship loaded with dynamite, which sailed unescorted across...