Word: paines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effect of anesthetics, thus lowering the amount necessary for a patient, and thereby lowering the danger. It reduces inflammation, has an anticonvulsive effect useful in treatment of epilepsy, and has a suppressing effect on symptoms of Parkinson's disease. "But it is Ag 246's analgesic or pain-killing qualities that are perhaps most promising," says Laborit. Operations have already been carried out using the new drug with no anesthetic. The patients felt no pain but remained awake throughout the operation, carrying on rational communication with the doctor...
...Should Vanish." Ag 246 has also been used on victims of constant pain who previously got complete relief only with unconsciousness. A cancer patient, with pain so grave that a lobotomy had been contemplated, got so much relief from the drug that he was able to read and eat normally...
...Royal Hunt Shaffer has tackled some of man's profoundest problems: God, Faith, Hope-Despair, Joy-Pain, Greed, Honor. In the Introduction to the printed text, he states some of his premises: "What is most distressing for me in reading history is the way man constantly trivialises the immensity of his experience" the way, for example, he canalises the greatness of his spiritual awareness into the second-rate formula of a Church-any Church..... To me, the greatest tragic factor in history is man's apparent need to mark the intensity of his reaction to life by joining a band...
...melancholy. The outward conflicts are there, but so are the just as real ones within him. He does wonders with the large number of Pizarro's short ariosos, marvelously rhythmed and filled with evocative and fresh metaphor. And his final scene is one of extraordinary beauty and deep pain...
Justifiably Proud. Dr. Jay Jacoby, head of anesthesia at Marquette University School of Medicine, explained that the management of intractable pain promises to become an increasingly important part of anesthesiologists' work, as the aged population increases and, with it, the incidence of cancer. Dr. Bonica reported that he is concentrating on the relief of intractable pain from arthritis and neuralgia as well as cancer. The approach is usually by "permanently anesthetizing" nerves with injections of alcohol or phenol...