Word: paines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their experiments, Drs. Wolff, James D. Hardy and Helen Goodell tried a mixture of two ounces of 95% grain alcohol in a glass of ginger ale on themselves, found that it raises the "threshold" of pain 45% for two hours. Two ounces of 90-proof whiskey will turn the same trick. If a five-grain tablet of aspirin is added, any pain can be dulled for four hours. Dr. Wolff urged his colleagues to return to the use of whiskey for "persons suffering continuously," especially cancer victims. Said he: "It is cheaper than morphine. ... Of course alcohol is habit-forming...
...particularly useful for deep-seated bone infections which are difficult to open and drain. One of Dr. MacNeal's most successful patients was a surgeon who had an abscess in his shinbone. Instead of an operation, he asked for bacteriophage, received daily injections. In 48 hours his excruciating pain was relieved, in three weeks he was walking, in six he was playing tennis. Said Dr. MacNeal...
Oxygen. Five years ago, Anesthetist John Henry Evans of Buffalo began to inject oxygen under the skin of swollen joints, to dull pain. He discovered that the oxygen often "has beneficial effects" on early arthritis and other inflammations of nerves, muscles, joints. Said Dr. Evans: "Within 24 hours . . . after injection . . . the local temperature drops; the redness disappears; the swelling is reduced, and the tissues become much less sensitive to pressure...
...16th-Century Japan after the evangelism of St. Francis Xavier, when the authorities suspected that it might be preparing the way for the conquest of Japan by European countries as the Philippine Islands had been conquered. For more than two centuries, Christians were forbidden to enter Japan on pain of death. With Japanese at the helm of the church, the political threat to Christianity is minimized...
Surgeons have been more successful with stomach ulcers. But in many cases, even if they are apparently cured without surgery and cause no pain, stomach ulcers secretly become cancerous. A man who has once suffered from a stomach ulcer should have himself examined frequently, no matter how well he feels...