Word: paines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Uncle Eustace also had a few cheering words on the subject of Good People. "Progress . . . backwards and downwards," he called their vagaries. Then he rushed off to get some bicarbonate for the pain in his heart. Next morning the servants found Uncle Eustace dead on the bathroom floor...
...doctor first dropped a parachute load of supplies from the circling bomber, then jumped himself. He landed in a tree, fell 20 ft., but scrambled up unhurt. When the main rescue party arrived (by land) nearly four hours later, the patients had been fed, bandaged, drugged to ease their pain. They could not say enough in praise of their paradoctor...
...method is called paravertebral sympathetic nerve block. It is sponsored by Dr. Shiras ("Skipper") Jarvis of the University, who is now somewhere in the Pacific with the Navy. Procedure: wait until labor pains are seven minutes apart then block the nerves which conduct pain from the uterus to the brain. This is done by inserting a needle beside the lower spine and injecting a local anesthetic (usually procaine, a cocaine substitute) into the nerve channel which serves the uterus. As labor progresses, nerves farther down are blocked and finally the mother, who until then has been fully conscious...
...wounded were comfortable. He saw how tenderly the litter bearers (many of them Negroes) moved the stretchers from ships to docks, from docks to ambulances, watched the doctors change bandages and give morphine in the open air. He sighed with relief: "Didn't see a single man in pain. Not drugged, mind you-they were smoking cigarets, many of them-but enough [morphine] so that they were comfortable." Said he when someone asked him how he got such a complicated organization working so smoothly: "Give a mouse a shot of hooch and he'll yell, 'Bring...
...name as plain John Brown, so it comes as no surprise to learn that he is really John Dyckman Brown III, a democratic multimillionaire. Before the sisters learn his secret he spends a good deal of his fortune sending orchids (signed "Somebody") to flirtatious Jean, much to Patsy's pain...