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Word: paines (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bite of a black-widow spider, which is common all over the U.S., is seldom fatal-but the pain is well-nigh unbearable. The victim suffers from something called arachnidism. He thrashes around in agony for one or two days, hurts for several more. His abdomen becomes as rigid as a board. His legs draw up in a series of spasms. None of the 60 remedies so far recommended by the medical books gives very notable relief from the spider's bite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Arachnidism | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

When a Negro boy in Charleston, S.C. was bitten, the doctors began running through the usual drugs. But 45 minutes after the injection of calcium gluconate, the boy still cried out with pain. After another shot he seemed to get worse. A slow injection of salt and sugar was no help; pentobarbital sodium, codeine and Aspirin left him still twitching on the bed. Pentobarbital sodium was tried again, to no effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Arachnidism | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

...Father, today we give Thee thanks for the things we take for granted, for freedom, for security of life, for food and shelter and the presence of loved ones. We thank Thee that men long denied these blessings have through sacrifice and pain once more attained them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Wainwright's Prayer | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

...Tridione, a new synthetic drug, had a successful tryout against the petit mal (small attack) form of epilepsy. Tridione can also dull pain. Its strangest effect: to a patient under treatment with tridione, everything appears to be lightly coated with snow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Drug Notes, Nov. 26, 1945 | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

...Guthrie's statement that surgery has become painless "shocks one as a thundering lie ... but of course means only that the patient does not feel the touch of the surgeon's knife. . . ." (The pain comes after operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Shaw on Disease | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

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